CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC INCUNABULA On the five hundredth anniversary of the Breviary of Blaž Baromić (1493-1993)

1993, the year of the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, marks the five hundredth anniversary of a Croatian Glagolitic incunabulum - the Breviary of 1493 edited by Blaž Baromić. This anniversary is the motivation for a brief examination of Croatian Glagolitic incunabula in general. Today five Glagolitic incunabula are known: two missals (1483, 1494), two breviaries (1491, 1493), and a manual for conducting confession Spovid općena (1496). There are indications that another manual for conducting confession - Ispovid. - was published in 1492 (a copy of the colophon has been preserved in a Glagolitic miscellany from the first quarter of the sixteenth century). We do not know where the Missal of 1483 and the Breviaiy of 1491 were printed. The Breviary of 1493 was printed in Venice at the press of A. Torresani. The Missal of 1494 and the Spovid općena of 1496 were printed in Senj, and the Ispovid, of which no copies have been preserved, was printed in Venice at the press of Pelegrinus de Pasqualibus. The missals and breviaries were printed in Croatian Church Slavonic, while the Spovid općena was translated from Italian (Confessi- onale generale of M. Carcano) into čakavian. The missals and breviares were printed in two colors, the Spovid općena across the entire page and in one color. Some Glagolitic incunabula are printed on both paper and parchment. The Missal of 1483 is a masterpiece of printing craft. Only a very few original copies of glagolitic incunabula have been preserved. Of the Breviary of 1491 and the Spovid općena we have only a single copy. In recent times the study of Croatian Glagolitic incunabula has been progressing. Three have been republished: the Missal of 1483, the Breviary of 1491, and the Spovid općena of 1496