Cartographer, geographer, historian, writer, polyhistor, publisher, and collector Johann Weichard Valvasor (1641–1693) published a monumental cultural-historical topographical encyclopedia of Carniola in Nuremberg in 1689 with the title Die Ehre Dess Hertzogthums Crain. With the help of his colleagues, he collected numerous historical, ethnographic, naturalistic, and other information, which are still an invaluable source for the history of present-day Slovenian territory, while the huge costs of this long-standing project pushed him to the brink of survival. In his copperplate-printing workshop at the Bogenšperk castle and in collaboration with various illustrators and printers, including Johann Baptist Mayr from Ljubljana, he also published several topographies, collections of vedutas and maps of Carniola, Carinthia, Karst, and Istria, as well as some other books, such as a verified moral-didactic work Theatrum Mortis Humanae tripartitum. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of London in 1687 because of his resounding study on the functioning of the intermittent Cerknica Lake.
"},{"@xml:lang":"sl","#text":"Cartographer, geographer, historian, writer, polyhistor, publisher, and collector Johann Weichard Valvasor (1641–1693) published a monumental cultural-historical topographical encyclopaedia of Carniola in Nuremberg in 1689 with the title Die Ehre Dess Hertzogthums Crain. With the help of his colleagues, he collected numerous historical, ethnographic, naturalistic and other information, which are still an invaluable source for the history of present-day Slovenian territory, while the huge costs of this long-standing project pushed him to the brink of survival. In his copperplate-printing workshop at the Bogenšperk castle and in collaboration with various illustrators and printers, including Johann Baptist Mayr from Ljubljana, he also published several topographies, collections of vedutas and maps of Carniola, Carinthia, Karst and Istria, as well as some other books, such as a versified moral-didactic work Theatrum mortis humanae tripartitum. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of London in 1687 because of his resounding study on the functioning of the intermittent Cerknica Lake.
The collection includes individual copies of Valvasor's works from the National and University Library’s collections, and the Miran Jarc Library in Novo mesto, as well as articles, biographical and other studies dealing with Vavasor’s life and work.
"},{"@xml:lang":"sl","#text":"Kartograf, geograf, zgodovinar, pisatelj, polihistor, založnik in zbiratelj Janez Vajkard Valvasor (1641–1693) je leta 1689 v Nürnbergu izdal monumentalno kulturnozgodovinsko topografsko enciklopedijo Kranjske z naslovom Die Ehre Dess Hertzogthums Crain. V njej je s pomočjo sodelavcev zbral številne zgodovinske, etnografske, naravoslovne in druge podatke, ki še danes predstavljajo neprecenljiv vir za zgodovino današnjega slovenskega ozemlja. Visoki stroški tega dolgoletnega projekta so ga prignali na rob preživetja. V svoji bakroreznici na gradu Bogenšperk je v sodelovanju z raznimi grafiki in tiskarji, med drugim z Janezom Krstnikom Mayrom iz Ljubljane, izdal tudi več topografij, zbirk vedut in zemljevidov Kranjske, Koroške, Krasa in Istre ter še nekatere druge knjige, kot je na primer verzificirano moralno-didaktično delo Theatrum mortis humanae tripartitum. Zaradi odmevne razprave o delovanju presihajočega Cerkniškega jezera je bil leta 1687 izvoljen med člane Kraljeve družbe v Londonu.
V zbirki so predstavljeni posamezni izvodi Valvasorjevih del iz zbirk Narodne in univerzitetne knjižnice in Knjižnice Mirana Jarca v Novem mestu, poleg teh pa tudi članki ter biografske in druge študije, ki obravnavajo Valvasorjevo življenje in delo.