INIS Series, INIS Series, 2022, Special Edition
Title:
The "Abagar" by Philip Stanislavov: From the Amulet to the Engraving
Autor(s):
Daniel S. Terziev, Faculty of Fine Arts, "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" Univercity of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, infoterziev@gmail.com
Abstact:
The book "Abagar", written by Bishop Philip Stanislavov, is one of the most interesting phenomena in Bulgarian literary and artistical life during the seventeenth century. This is the first Bulgarian printed book, with linguistic elements of live, spoken Bulgarian speech. The book, in the form of a text amulet, is aimed at the involvement of Bulgarian common people with Catholicism.
The engravings of various religious scenes and saints with which it is richly illustrated, are building blocks of iconography. Its diverse textual and illustrative content, as well as its connection with Catholic propaganda in Bulgaria, is the reason for the cultural and scientific interest in it that persists to this day.
The engravings of various religious scenes and saints with which it is richly illustrated, are building blocks of iconography. Its diverse textual and illustrative content, as well as its connection with Catholic propaganda in Bulgaria, is the reason for the cultural and scientific interest in it that persists to this day.
Keywords:
Engraving, Amulet, Abagar, Apocrypha, Saints, Christianity,
PDF file address:
http://www.math.bas.bg/vt/inis/series/book/2022.se/inis.2022.se01.pdf
Cite (APA style):
Terziev, D. (2022). The "Abagar" by Philip Stanislavov: From the Amulet to the Engraving, INIS Series, 2022, Special Edition, ISSN 2815-4231, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 12-19.