Kasper Elyan

Kasper Elyan, printer in Wrocław in 1475–1483. He was born in Głogów, studied in Leipzig, Kraków and Erfurt. He opened the publishing thanks to a financial loan of the canons of the Wrocław chapter. Elyan's 9 Latin prints in 12 editions have survived to this day. The list of Wrocław incunabula (i.e. prints from the 15th century) opens with the De transfiguratione domini from 1475 and immediately after the Statuta synodalia episcoporum Wratislaviensium, which include the first words printed in Polish, namely the texts of three prayers (Our Father ..., Hail Mary ... . and I believe in God ...). Elyan's most typographically successful book is Facecje by the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini. About the person of Elyan and his printing house in: A. Mendykowa, History of Polish books in Silesia. Ossolineum 1991.