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| THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GLAGOLITIC PRINTING PRESS IN SENJ | Serie: 88 | Type: P | Stamps in serie: 1
The Croatian Post and Telecommunications issued a First Day Cover and a commemorative sheet. |  | | Stamps no: 88
THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GLAGOLITIC PRINTING PRESS IN SENJ | | Value: | 2200 HRD | | Author: | Frane Paro, academic painter and designer, Zagreb | | Size: | 35,5 x 29,82 mm | | Paper: | white 90g, gummed | | Perforation: | 14, comb | | Tehnique: | Multicoloured Offsetprint | | Printed by: | "Zrinski" - Čakovec | | Date of issue: | 29.1.1994 | | Quantity: | 350000 |
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Motif: A drawing of a 15-th century printing press: a reconstruction.
Two events in the 15th century changed the world: Columbus’s discovery of America in 1492 and the other, Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. The 1994- marks the 500th anniversary of the press in Senj which in 1494 printed the first Old Croatian book in Glagolitic script, the Missal. It was not an anonymous venture: we know that the people who took part in the production of the book were Blaž Baromić, Silvestar Bedričić and Gašpar Turčić.
The Senj Missal from 1494 is the crowning glory of several centuries of Glagolitic writing and literature on Croatian soil. The European nations that can boast the Incunabula (books printed before 1500) take particular pride in these books; they are considered great landmarks in their cultural heritage. In that circle, Croatian Glagolitic incunabula have a unique place.
The Croatian Post and Telecommunications issued a First Day Cover and a commemorative sheet.
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