Serbian printing

Serbian printing refers to the history of printing among Serbs, and focusing on development of book printing in Serbian language, by the use of Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, from the end of the 15th century, up to the end of the 18th century.[1] The first state printing house, the Serbian Printing House, was established in 1832.

A page from the Four Gospels printed at the Mrkšina crkva printing house (1562)

Printing houses

Early modern period

• Crnojević printing house (1494—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)
• 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

References

1. Ćirković 2004, p. 138-139.

Sources

• Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Ivić, Pavle, ed. (1995). The History of Serbian Culture. Edgware: Porthill Publishers.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Samardžić, Radovan; Duškov, Milan, eds. (1993). Serbs in European Civilization. Belgrade: Nova, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Balkan Studies.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Pavle Ivić, Mitar Pešikan (1995). "Serbian printing". The history of Serbian Culture. Rastko.