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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cream hard covers which wrap around the book. Some age discolouration, darkened spine and some bumping to edges. Scattered foxing and age discolouration to e/p's and insides of cover. Contents tight and clean. An introduction on heavy grey card followed by 139 coloured crests on heavy cream paper. This is a heavy book so please check postage with bookseller.
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Fojnica Crest-Collection
Published by Press and Publishing House "Oslobodenje", Sarajevo, 1972
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Oversized book, measuring 12-1/2 inches by 9 inches. Front cover has folding flap over fore-edge. Book is in a slip case. An introduction on heavy grey card followed by 139 colored crests on heavy cream paper. These are the crests of Bosnian and Herzegovinian lords who, after the advent of the Osmanli conquerors and the fall of Bosnia in 1483, either fled from their homeland to Dalmatian, Italy, and even Spain, or remained, but now without privileges and thus also without the titular indications of their lineage. The Fojnica crest-collection, so called because it has been kept in Fojnica monastery since time immemorial, is the only preserved and the oldest collection of crests in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These crests became titular indications of the lineage of noble families. Fojnica Armorial: The manuscript is named for the Franciscan monastery in Fojnica [some 20 km from Sarajevo, Bosnia Eyalet, now in Bosnia and Herzegovina], were it was kept. The presence of the manuscript in the Fojnica monastery is first attested in the year 1800. Alexander Soloviev dated it to in between 1675 and 1688, i.e. in the context of the revolts against Ottoman rule during the Great Turkish War. Other scholars have proposed dates of the late 16th or early 17th century. The little page of the armorial itself purports a creation date of 1340, The manuscript is an important source of the classical heraldry of the Balkans peninsula, alongside the Korenic-Neoric Armorial of 1595, and the "llyrian Armorial" The manuscript contains a total of 139 coats of arms. It begins with a depiction of the Bogorodica, saints Cosmas and Damian, and Saint Jerome. There follows a little page, written in Cyrillic, which attributes the work to one Stanislav Rubcic, in honor of king Stephen Nemanja, with the date 1340. There is an added note in Latin, dated 1800, which testifies that the manuscript had been kept in Fojnica monastery "from time immemorial". Then there is a page showing a combined coat of arms consisting of eleven parts. After this, there are ten coats of arms of late medieval realms of the region, Macedonia (Macedoniae), "llyri" (Vilvriae), Bosnia (Bosnae), Dalmatia (Dalmatie), Croatia (Crovatiae), Slavonia (Slavoniae), Bulgaria (Bvlgariae), Serbia (Svrbiae), Rascia (Rasciae), and "Primordia (Primordiae), followed by coats of arms of noble families. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.
