The Zabiely Collection () are a group of manuscripts that were written between 1787 and 1791 in the Belarusian, Polish, and Latin languages. They were created by the teachers of the to be performed in their school theatre. The college operated from 1716 to 1811 on the Zabiely estate, which was near the village of (now in the in Belarus). The collections are preserved in the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius.
Selected works The collection includes a variety of dramatic and poetic works including: Works by : the Polish tragedy Freedom in Bondage () and the comic Belarusian-Polish (). Works by Michał Ciecierski: the Polish tragedies Saphar and Themistocles, and the comedies Doctor by Force (), Comedy, and Marriage Turned Upside Down (). 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 (), with text by Michał Ciecierski and music by Rafał Wardocki.
Most of the works are Enlightenment in their ideological design and Classicist in style.
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