Emvlemy i simvoly (1788) : the first Russian emblem book
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Emvlemy i simvoly (1788) : the first Russian emblem book
(Symbola et emblemata, . Studies in renaissance and baroque symbolism ; v. 1)
Brill, 1989
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First Russian emblem book
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Note
Text in Russian with summaries in English
Reprint, with new introd. Originally published: Emvlemy i sẏmvoly izbrannye. Saint Petersburg : V Imp. tip., 1788
Includes bibliographical references (p. [53]-55) (2nd set)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 1788 Nestor Ambodik brought out a Russian edition of the well-known emblem book, Symbola et Emblemata, originally published in Holland in 1705 under the auspices of Peter the Great. In particular, Ambodik added what was to be the first treatise in Russian on Emblems, heraldry and classical iconology.
The present edition is a facsimile of Ambodik's Emvlemy I Simvoly, with a translation of his Russian text and an exhaustive index of all the 840 emblems. Anthony Hippisley also prefaces the edition with an introductory article throwing light on the sources of the emblem book and on its importance in eighteenth-century Russian culture.
The facsimile edition makes available to scholars a comparatively rare book that played an important role in the Russian Enlightenment and whose impact is to be seen in the Fine Arts, applied art and literature of the time.
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