/: Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora 1483(pretisak iz 1971)

Missal according to the law of the Roman court in 1483.

Original printing: 1483.
Reprint: Zagreb, 1971.

This reprint was made in 2050 numbered copies and imported in parchment. The number of this copy is 21

Missal according to the law of the Roman court is the name for the Croatian first edition printed in 1483, more precisely, on February 22, 1483, when, according to the data, the printing was completed. The missal was printed only 28 years after the completion of Gutenberg's forty-two-word Bible. The fact that the missal was printed in the Croatian language and Glagolitic script testifies to the social, economic, cultural and intellectual potential of Croats in the second half of the 15th century. century.

Despite all speculations, we cannot say with certainty where it was printed for our First Edition (lat. editio princeps), which is also the first Missal in Europe that was not printed in Latin and in the Latin language. At first it was thought that it was printed in Venice, but nowadays the prevailing assumption is that the Croatian first edition was printed on Croatian soil. The eminent connoisseur and historian of the book Zvonimir Kulundžić, in his numerous works on the subject, presented convincing evidence in favor of Kosinj as a probable place of printing of the Missal.

In addition to Venice, Izola, Roč, Modruš u Lika and Kosinj are assumed to be the place of printing of the Missal. It was also printed on parchment, and the first Slavic incunabula was printed not only on paper, but also on parchment. In addition, our first printing is the first Slavic incunabula printed in two colors, red and black. Although neither the place of printing nor the printers are known, the fact remains that it is one of the most beautiful printed incunabula in general.

The missal was first mentioned by Zadar Archbishop Matej Karaman (1700-1771), then by Slovenian philologist Jernej Kopitar, and in 1820 by Belarusian Slavist and Orientalist Mihail Bobrowski, who wittily notes that "this first edition is rarer than a white raven". On October 20, 1821, in a letter from Paris to Jerne Kopitar, Bobrowski pointed out that the Missal was the first book in the Slavic world printed with movable type.

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