Missale Romanum Glagolitice

Its editio princeps, unique in the achieved typographic artistry, was published only 28 years after the Gutenberg Bible's 42-lines,[1] bears witness of high cultural attainment and maturity of Croatian Glagolites and Croatian mediaeval literature.

Its principal model in terms of subject and equivalent Glagolitic letters is thought to be the famous codex Misal kneza Novaka ("Prince Novak's Missal"), from 1368.

The original manuscript of Novak's missal bears a historically important note by Simon Greblo.

[3][4] Paleographic and linguistic analysis of the text revealed that the first printed Croatian books was edited by the Croats from Istria.

In the note, he mentions that he is in Izola, and it is assumed that he was en route to the printing press.