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First printed book in Cyrillic script See also: Cetinje Octoechos
Fiol's Octoechos
LanguageChurch Slavonic
Published1491
PublisherSchweipolt Fiol
Media typeincunabulum

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.

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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