Theatrum Memoriae Nobilis ac Almae Societatis Unitorum (1688-1801)
Spominska knjiga ljubljanske plemiške družbe sv. Dizma

• Hardcover: 17 v.,7.752 pp facsimile
• Binding: half leather
• Language: Slovenian, English, German
• Publish Date: 2008
• Publisher:The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Shipping Weight: 120 kg
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 41 x 34 cm

De-luxe limited (100 copies) edition  – facsimile after the original).

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Theatrum Memoriae Nobilis ac Almae Societatis Unitorum (1688-1801)
Spominska knjiga ljubljanske plemiške družbe sv. Dizma

• Hardcover: 3 v. : col. ill. ; 34 cm, 304pp facsimile
• Binding: wooden covers – covered with black velvet, silver plated corners
• Language: Slovenian, English, German
• Publish Date: 2001
• Publisher: Mladinska knjiga
• Shipping Weight: 15 kg
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 27 x 34 cm

De-luxe limited (200 copies) edition  – facsimile after the original manuscript) + 2 vol. of studies.

The manuscript was created between 1688 and 1801 (113 years) and represents the chronicle of the Ljubljana society of St. Dizme. Each of the 195 members of this fraternity contributed its luxuriously decorated leaf with a emblem in which it was included on the top of the Latin rivers, a chosen German member’s name, in the middle of a personal or family coat of arms with a member’s life motto, the date of enrollment, and the subsequent year of death and, in some cases, some other comments. Over the years, 187 full-length illuminations have been accumulated, some of which have been supplemented with gilding. Other inscriptions in the memorial book are in German. The book is illustrated by at least twelve illuminators, but most of them are not known. Andrej Trost, Simon Tadej Volbenk Grahovar, Bartolomej Ramschissl and Matija Greyscher stand out among the well known. The only portrait is the image of Wolfgang Sigismund Künpach, but not included directly in Künpach’s presentation, but is placed at the beginning of the book; with this he was given special honor as the founder. Most of those enrolled do not have a curriculum vitae, since after the death of Janez Gregor Dolničar (l.1799), the first secretary of the company, his successors did not record the biographies of the deceased.
Via illuminations we can follow the development of fine arts, from rich baroque to light handball and ultimately to the language of enlightenment. Although it is not a book of emblems in the narrow sense of the word, but as a memorial book by the company of educators, the Ljubljana manuscript is also, on a global scale, one of the important monuments of emblematic.

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Johann Weichard von Valvasor, Bartholomaeus Ramschissl
The great heraldry book / Opus insignium armorumque / Velika grbovna knjiga / Das grosse Wappenbuch (1687-1688)

• Hardcover: 2 v. : col. ill. ; 32 cm, 388pp + 198pp
• Binding: Leather
• Language: Slovenian, English, German
• Publish Date: 1993
• Publisher: Slovenian Academy of Science and Art
• Shipping Weight: 5 kg
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 40 x 32 cm

De-luxe limited (1000 copies) edition (facsimile after the original manuscript) of Valvasor’s The Great Heraldry Book. 2041 hand-drawn and colored coat of arms from all over Europe, with focus on the coat of arms of the Duchy of Carniola.
The codex contains 388 consecutively numbered leaves. The depictions and blazons are on the right-hand page while the back page of the leaves is always blank. The alphabetical index of all names mentioned in the heraldry book is on leaves 371 to 388. This index was published already in 1898. It comprises 1478 names of states, counties, provinces, noble families, dioceses, abbeys, towns, boroughs and different persons. Vol.2 includes studies, bibliographical references and index.
(No. of copy: 131)

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Zlata Biblija

• Hardcover: 1067pp
• Binding: Leather
• Language: Slovene
• Publish Date: 2008
• Publisher: Mladinska knjiga
• Shipping Weight: 8 kg
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 40 x 32 cm

De-luxe limited (1000 copies) edition of Illustrated Bible, the most modern Slovene translation is adorned with over 300 reproductions of illustrations from hand-painted copies of the Bible (of which more than 100 are decorated with gold foil), most of them from the period between 1000 and 1610. The luxurious illustrated Bible is bound in leather and gold trim, placed in wooden box. No. of copy: 54

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