Wiersz na pochwałę herbu Łukasza III Górki w szesnastowiecznym druku Aleksandra Augezdeckiego

Abstract

In the paper we present one of the poems written in the sixteenth century, a tribute to the Łukasz III Górka’s coat of arms – Łodzia, found in a Bohemian hymnal Piesně Chwal Božskych [...], issued in Szamotuły in 1561 by Aleksander Augezdecki. The main subject of the paper is a whole-page woodcut on the verso of the title page the book presenting Łukasz III Górka’s complex coat of arms, with an accompanying Czech poem in its honour. Poems concerning the Łodzia coat of arms are known from over 20 Polish printings dating to the sixteenth century, the oldest of them dedicated to Piotr Tomicki, a vice-chancellor, bishop of Krakow and Poznań, and later mainly to the members of the houses of Górka and Opaliński.