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67. Title page of János Mihálykó's Keresztyeni Istenes és áhitatos imádságoc

68. Colophon of item 67

The images are the title page and colophon, respectively, of János Mihálykó's Keresztyeni Istenes és áhitatos imádságoc Csepreg: Imre Farkas, 1630. Mihálykó (dates of birth and death unknown) was a Lutheran clergyman and writer on ecclesiastical matters. He studied at Wittenberg and was later pastor in Eperjes (now Présov). He is a representative of the mannerist devotional literature, the earliest figure of this movement being Lukács Pécsi, who was the legal advisor to the Church in Esztergom and director of the printing press in Nagyszombat (now Trnava).

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