Illyrian armorial with South Slavic symbols expressing romantic nationalism and Illyrism
Fojnica Armorial |
---|
|
The combined coat of arms on the first page of a fictional "Illyrian Empire", based on the one found in the Ohmućević Armorial.
The divisions are labelled with letters as follows: (A) Macedonia, (B) Slavonia, (C) Bosnia (the star-and-crescent of "Illyria" is present in an inescutcheon in the Bosnian coat of arms), (D) Bulgaria, (E) Dalmatia, (F) Serbia, (G) Croatia, (H) Rascia, (I) "Primordia", with an added imperial double-headed eagle (labelled J) |
Date | Uncertain |
---|
Scribe(s) | Stanislav Rubčić |
---|
Dedicated to | King of Serbia Stefan Dušan |
---|
Script | Cyrillic |
---|
Contents | Heraldry; 139 coats of arms |
---|
Exemplar(s) | 1 |
---|
Previously kept | Franciscan monastery in Fojnica |
---|
Discovered | 1800 |
---|
Fojnica Armorial (Serbo-Croatian: Fojnički grbovnik, Фојнички грбовник) is a prominent Illyrian armorial which contains South Slavic heraldic symbols. The manuscript is named after the Franciscan monastery in Fojnica where it was kept.[1]
- ^ Srđan Rudić, Vlastela Ilirskog grbovnika: The Nobility of the Illyric Coat of Arms, Volume 52 of Posebna izdanja, Editor Tibor Živković, Istorijski institut, Beograd, 2006, ISBN 8677430555, pp. 289-294.