Jovan Maleševac was born in the village of Hotkovci north of Glamoč in western Bosnia, then part of the Ottoman Empire [REF].
This soul-benefiting book called Menaion was written in the year 7032 (AD 1524) in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (at the Tvrdoš Monastery) in Trebinje, in the days of the evil-doer and blasphemer against the Holy Trinity and persecutor of Christians, the Turkish Emperor Suleiman..