Jovan Maleševac

Jovan Maleševac
Born	Јован Малешевац Hotkovci north of Glamoč in western Bosnia, then part of the Ottoman Empire
Occupation	Serbian Orthodox monk and scribe
Years active	1524–1562

Jovan Maleševac (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Малешевац; fl. 1524–1562) was a Serbian Orthodox monk and scribe who collaborated in 1561 with the Slovene Protestant reformer Primož Trubar to print religious books in Cyrillic. Between 1524 and 1546, Maleševac wrote five liturgical books in Church Slavonic at Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Herzegovina and Montenegro. He later settled in the region of White Carniola, in present-day Slovenia. In 1561, he was engaged by Trubar to proof-read Cyrillic Protestant liturgical books produced in the South Slavic Bible Institute in Urach, Germany, where he stayed for five months.

Jovan Maleševac was born in the village of Hotkovci north of Glamoč in western Bosnia, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He became a Serbian Orthodox hieromonk (priest-monk), and was active as a scribe writing liturgical books in Church Slavonic. He wrote a Menaion in 1524 at the Tvrdoš Monastery in Herzegovina and a Gospel Book in 1532 at a monastery in Montenegro. In 1545–46, he wrote a Prolog (a type of Synaxarium), a Typikon, and a Gospel Book at the Holy Trinity Monastery near Pljevlja in Herzegovina. A copy of the first Serbian incunabulum, the Cetinje Octoechos, found in the village of Stekerovci north of Glamoč, contains an undated inscription written by Jovan Maleševac stating that he bought the book "for the health of the living and the memory of the dead". The colophon of the 1524 Menaion begins with Maleševac's remark on the contemporary historical context:

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