Zabiely Collections
 Title page of the Comedy by Kajetan Maraszewski | |
| Author | Faculty of the Zabiely Dominican College |
|---|---|
| Language | Belarusian, Polish, Latin |
| Genre | Drama, Poetry |
| Publisher | Manuscript |
Publication date | 1787–1791 |
| Publication place | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth / Russian Empire |
The Zabiely Collections (Belarusian: Забельскія зборнікі) are manuscript collections compiled between 1787 and 1791 in the Belarusian, Polish, and Latin languages. They were created for the school theater by the teachers of the Zabiely Dominican College, which operated from 1716 to 1811 in the Zabiely estate near the village of Valyncy (now in the Verkhnyadzvinsk District, Belarus).[1]
The collections are preserved in the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius.
Contents
[edit]The collections include a variety of dramatic and poetic works:
- Works by Kajetan Maraszewski: the Polish tragedy Freedom in Bondage (Wolność w niewoli) and the comic Belarusian-Polish Comedy (Камедыя).
- Works by Michał Ciecierski: the Polish tragedies Saphar and Themistocles, and the comedies Doctor by Force (Doktor z musu), Comedy, and Marriage Turned Upside Down (Małżeństwo do góry nogami).
- Works by Ignacy Jurewicz: the tragedy Croesus and the comedy of manners Pysznogolski.
- Elegies, orations, and odes by M. Kossow and H. Pawłowicz.
- The comic opera Apollo the Legislator, or Reformed Parnassus (Apollo prawodawca, czyli Parnas reformowany), with text by Michał Ciecierski and music by Rafał Wardocki.
Most of the works are Enlightenment in their ideological design and Classicist in style.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Каяла, У. І. (2012). "Забельскія зборнікі". In Бялова, Т. У. (ed.). Культура Беларусі: энцыклапедыя [Culture of Belarus: Encyclopedia] (in Belarusian). Vol. 3. Мінск: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя імя П. Броўкі. ISBN 978-985-11-0662-8.
Literature
[edit]- Мальдзіс, А. І. (1980). На скрыжаванні славянскіх традыцый [At the Crossroads of Slavic Traditions] (in Belarusian). Мінск: Навука і тэхніка.
- Каяла, У. І. (2012). "Забельскія зборнікі". In Бялова, Т. У. (ed.). Культура Беларусі: энцыклапедыя [Culture of Belarus: Encyclopedia] (in Belarusian). Vol. 3. Мінск: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя імя П. Броўкі. ISBN 978-985-11-0662-8.