Schweipolt Fiol
German-speaking publisher and typographist in Kraków · Musicians · Lived 1460 to 1525 · aged 65
Schweipolt Fiol was a German-born 15th century pioneer of Cyrillic printing. Fiol spent a considerable part of his life in Poland, particularly Kraków, the capital of the Polish Kingdom at the time. The city was famous for its university.
Schweipolt Fiol is read about 15 times a day, in 12 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 17 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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Fiol's Octoechos
Triod cvĕtnaă (before 1491)
Printing machine created by Johannes Gutenberg, which had been used by Fiol
First Slavonic script
The first page of Octoechos
The last page of Octoechos. Visible on the top picture are two capital letter from both sides "S" and "V", that could be mean Schweipolt Viol
Unfortunately, there isn't picture of Fiol's "Lenten Triodion, this is another one, printed by Peter Mogila in 1646About this person
The burgeoning of the arts and sciences contributed to the early emergence of book printing here: as early as 1473-1477 there was a print shop in Kraków, which published numerous theological works. The very first book printed in Cyrillic script, Oktoikh (Octoechos), was published by Fiol in 1491 in Kraków.
