Missale Romanum Glagolitice
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Missale Romanum Glagolitice is a Croatian language
Croatian language
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 missal
Missal
A missal is a liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year.-History:Before the compilation of such books, several books were used when celebrating Mass...

 printed in 1483. It is written in Glagolitic script and is the first printed Croatian book and one of the first South Slavonic printed books. It is the first missal in Europe not published in Latin script. Its editio princeps
Editio princeps
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, unique in the achieved typographic artistry, was published only 28 years after the Gutenberg bible
Gutenberg Bible
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's 42-lines, bears witness of high cultural attainment and maturity of Croatian Glagolites and Croatian mediaeval literature.

It is written in Croatian Church Slavonic and printed in Croatian angular Glagolitic. It has 440 pp, in format 19x26 cm. Its principal model in terms of subject and equivalent Glagolitic letters is thought the be the famous codex Misal kneza Novaka ("Prince Novak's Missal"), from 1368. Paleographic and linguistic analysis of the text revealed that the first printed Croatian books was edited by the Croats from Istria
Istria
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. The Missal rituals strictly follow the Latin Editio princeps (Milan, 1474) with slight differences in the order of some rituals.

Date of the printing (22nd February 1483) is shown in the colophon, but the place of printing of still remains to be identified. According to some researchers, it was printed in Venice
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, but recent research assume suggests that it might have been printed in Kosinj in the Lika
Lika
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 region.

Eleven incomplete copies and six fragments have been preserved, five of which are held in Zagreb
Zagreb
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: two in the National and University Library
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, and two in the library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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. The Franciscan monastery in Zagreb and the Dominican monastery on the island of Brač
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 have one copy each. The other five copies are kept in the Library of Congress
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 in Washington, in the Russian National Library
Russian National Library
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 in St. Petersburg, in the Austrian National Library
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 in Vienna and in the Vatican Library
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(two copies).

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