Spovid općena
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Spovid općena is a Croatian language printed book produced in 1496 at the Senj printing press (in the Senj area of the Kingdom of Croatia within the Croatian–Hungarian union). The printing is associated with Blaž Baromić and the Senj Glagolitic press, and it is commonly described in Croatian bibliographic literature as the first printed book in the Croatian language (vernacular), as distinct from earlier Croatian Glagolitic incunabula printed in Church Slavonic.[1][2] It appeared about thirteen years after the Missale Romanum Glagolitice (1483), which is generally regarded as the first Croatian printed book and was printed in the Croatian recension of Old Church Slavonic.[3]
The work is a Glagolitic translation of the Italian penitential manual Confessione (Confessionale) generale by the Milanese preacher Michele Carcano.[4] The translator is identified in bibliographic records as Jakov (Ekov) Blažiolović.[5]