Belgrade Armorial II
The Belgrade Armorial II ( sr-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Beogradski grbovnik II, Београдски грбовник II) is the name given to an armorial compiled between 1600 and 1620, as a copy of the which is dated to 1590. It was bought by Russian historian Alexander Soloviev in 1936, and is today held at the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T .... It is among the oldest, and finest of the Illyrian Armorials. Its origin remains unknown. See also * Illyrian Armorials References Sources * * {{Authority control Rolls of arms Serbian heraldry Illuminated heraldic manuscripts 17th-century illuminated manuscripts ...
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Armorial
A roll of arms (or armorial) is a collection of coat of arms, coats of arms, usually consisting of rows of painted pictures of shields, each shield accompanied by the name of the person bearing the arms. The oldest extant armorials date to the mid-13th century, and armorial manuscripts continued to be produced throughout the early modern period. of 1605 was an early instance of a printed armorial. Medieval armorials usually include a few hundred coats of arms, in the late medieval period sometimes up to some 2,000. In the early modern period, the larger armorials develop into encyclopedic projects, with the ''Armorial général de France'' (1696), commissioned by Louis XIV of France, listing more than 125,000 coats of arms. In the modern period, the tradition develops into projects of heraldic dictionaries edited in multiple volumes, such as the ''Dictionary of British Arms'' in four volumes (1926–2009), or ''J. Siebmacher's großes Wappenbuch'' in seven volumes (1854&nd ...
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Alexander Soloviev (historian)
Alexander Vasilievich Soloviev (; ; 1890–1971) was a Russian émigré jurist, slavist, and historian of Serbia and Serbian law. His academic activity included research on the Bogumils, Serbian heraldry, philately and archeology, and he also published translations from Russian language, Russian and French language, French into Serbian language, Serbian. Having fled from Russia not long after the October Revolution, he settled in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, where he became a professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law (1920-1936). After the end of World War II he briefly served as the first dean of the Sarajevo Law School (1947-1949), before Communist repression forced him to emigrate to Switzerland, where he worked as professor of Slavic studies at the University of Geneva (1951-1961). Biography Alexander Vasilievich Soloviev was born in 1890 in Kalisz, Congress Poland, part of the Russian Empire, where his father Vasili Fyodorovich Soloviev was a j ...
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Museum Of Applied Arts (Belgrade)
The Museum of Applied Art ( / ''Muzej primenjene umetnosti'') is an art museum in Belgrade, Serbia. The museum contains over 37,000 works of applied art, which reflect the development of applied art over a 2,400 year span. The oldest artifacts of the museum are Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ... coins from the 4th century BC. History The Museum of Applied Art was founded on 1950. In the first years of the existence of the museum, the museum bought a collection of over 3,000 artifacts from Ljuba Ivanović, an artist. Departments The museum is divided into seven departments with collections: * Metal and Jewelry Department * Textile and Costume Department * Period Furniture and Wood Department * Photography and Print Room Department * Ceramics, Porcelai ...
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Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and ...
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Rolls Of Arms
Rolls may refer to: People * Charles Rolls (engraver) (1799–1885), engraver * Charles Rolls (1877–1910), Welsh motoring and aviation pioneer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited * John Etherington Welch Rolls (1807–1870), British jurist and art collector * John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837–1912), British landowner and politician * John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (1870–1916), British barrister and soldier * Rolls Gracie, Brazilian jiu-jitsu fighter Other uses * Rolls (restaurant chain), in Finland * Rolls Razor, a British safety razor and washing machine manufacturer See also *Rolls-Royce (other) *Roll (other) Roll may refer to: Physics and engineering * Rolling, a motion of two objects with respect to each-other such that the two stay in contact without sliding * Roll angle (or roll rotation), one of the 3 angular degrees of freedom of any stiff bod ...

Serbian Heraldry
Serbian heraldry involves the study and use of coats of arms and other heraldry, heraldic insignia in the country of Serbia or by Serbs. The Serbian government is the armiger in Serbia, exercising that right under the advice of the Serbian Heraldry Society ( sr-Cyrl, Српско хералдичко друштво, Srpsko heraldičko društvo), a learned society devoted to the study and creation of heraldry, specifically Serbian heraldry. Serbian heraldry in large part belongs to the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine tradition. Serbian nobility in the Habsburg monarchy, upon receiving noble status, adopted coat of arms often influenced by the Illyrian Armorials. Common symbols The most prominent and common symbols are the Serbian eagle (as in some other European heraldic traditions, the most prominent among the animals) and the Serbian cross, representing the national identity of the Serbian people across the centuries. Another common symbol is the Coat of arms of Triballia, Triball ...
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Illuminated Heraldic Manuscripts
Illuminated may refer to: * "Illuminated" (song), by Hurts * Illuminated Film Company, a British animation house * ''Illuminated'', alternative title of Black Sheep (Nat & Alex Wolff album) * Illuminated manuscript See also * Illuminate (other) * Illumination (other) * Illuminations (other) * Illuminator (other) Illuminator may refer to: * A light source * Limner, an illustrator of manuscripts * Illuminator radar * The Illuminator, a political art collective based in New York City * Illuminator (Marvel Comics), a Christian superhero appearing in Amer ...