Serbian printing explained

Serbian printing refers to the history of printing among Serbs, and focusing on development of book printing in Serbian language, initially by the use of Old Serbian Cyrillic alphabet during the early phases lasting from the end of the 15th century up to the end of the 18th century.

The first state printing house, the Serbian Printing House, was established in 1832.

Printing houses

Early modern period

• The first Serbian mechanical printing press was recorded in Obod in 1492. The remains of the medieval town of Obod are located on a dominant hill that rises above the upper course of the Crnojevica River.
• Crnojević printing house (1493–1496)
• Vuković printing house (1519/1520—1521) and (1536–1540)
• Goražde printing house (1519–1523)
• Rujno Monastery printing house (1537)
• Luka Primojević
• Gračanica printing house (1539)
• Mileševa printing house (1544–1557)
• Belgrade printing house (1552)
• South Slavic Bible Institute where Jovan Maleševac and Matija Popović worked as translators (1561–1565)
• Mrkšina crkva printing house (1562–1566)
• Skadar printing house (1563)
• Zagurović printing house (1569–1570)
• Rampazetto and Heirs (1597–1616) published in Serbian Cyrillic type
• Marco and Bartolo Ginammi (1614) published in Serbian Psaltir s posledovanjem (Psalter and Additions) in Venice in 1636.^[1]
• Trojan Gundulić
• Hieromonk Pahomije
• Hieromonk Makarije
• Josef von Kurzböck printing house, in Vienna, Cyrillic works, from 1771 until 1792, until the sale to Stefan von Novaković
• Stefan von Novaković's printing house, in Vienna, printed and published books until 1796, until the sale to the University of Pest
• Srbulje
• Radoslav's Gospel

See also

• Serbian literature

Sources

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• Book: Bojanin, Stanoje. The Byzantine Penitential Nomocanon in the Serbian and South Slavic Early Modern Printed and Manuscript Book. Byzanz und das Abendland VII. Studia Byzantino-Occidentalia. 2021. Budapest. Eötvös József Collegium. 31–49. https://byzantium.eotvos.elte.hu/wp-content/uploads/Stanoje-Bojanin.pdf. 2025-03-01. 2024-08-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20250301065557/http://byzantium.eotvos.elte.hu/wp-content/uploads/Stanoje-Bojanin.pdf. dead.
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External links

• Web site: Pavle Ivić, Mitar Pešikan. 1995. The History of Serbian Culture. Serbian printing. Rastko.

Notes and References

1. https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/open/o:33537