The Belgrade Armorial II ( sr-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Beogradski grbovnik II, Београдски грбовник II) is the name given to an

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 m ...

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.

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* * {{Authority control Rolls of arms Serbian heraldry Illuminated heraldic manuscripts 17th-century illuminated manuscripts

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