On 5 December 2025, Pope Leo XIV received from the Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković a copy of Incunabula Croatica, a 2025 monograph of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) spotlighting Croatia’s earliest printed books.

Prime Minister Plenković gave this unique publication as a gift to the Holy Father on the second day of his visit to the Vatican, as a lasting testimony of the wealth and centuries-long continuity of Croatian cultural heritage.

During a similar meeting this November with the President of the Republic of Croatia Zoran Milanović, the newly elected Pope received a facsimile edition of the most famous Croatian incunabulum (Misal po zakonu rimskoga dvora = Missale Romanum glagolitice), whose two original copies are the pride of the NSK Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection.

More on NSK’s website: https://nsk.hr/en/news/pope-leo-receives-nsk-monograph-spotlighting-croatias-earliest-printed-books/