Fiol's Octoechos
First printed book in Cyrillic script
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Fiol's Octoechos is an incunabulum octoechos, the first printed book in the Cyrillic script. It was printed by Schweipolt Fiol, a German native of Franconia, in 1491 in Kraków.
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| Language | Church Slavonic |
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| Published | 1491 |
| Publisher | Schweipolt Fiol |
| Media type | incunabulum |
The only complete copy, of seven remaining, of Oktoikh is kept by the Russian State Library in Moscow. In the past this copy belonged to Johann Hess (1490–1547), a Wrocław (Breslau) bibliophile and reformer.
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