Jovan Maleševac (; ) 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. Scribe in Herzegovina and Montenegro 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 updated 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: Proofreader in Germany Maleševac later joined the people who emigrated from the Ottoman-held Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Serbia to neighbouring areas of the Habsburg Empire, and he went to the region of White Carniola (in present-day Slovenia). Before that, he may have been to Venice, as he was in correspondence with a man (possible Vićenco Vuković?) who worked at a Serbian printing house there. In White Carniola, he was contacted in 1561 by Protestant activists associated with the Slovene religious reformer Primož Trubar. By that time, Trubar had printed a number of religious books in Slovene, and he had recently organized a printing press in the South Slavic Bible Institute in Urach near Tübingen, Germany, to produce books in the Glagolitic script. He also intended to print books in Cyrillic, but he was not confident of his Croatian translators' proficiency in that script. For this reason, Trubar and his colleagues negotiated with a Serb named Dimitrije Ljubavić. He had