2130 - 2193 MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS
79/2130 Alba amicorum Recueil de Dessins dediés à Jean Guillaume d'Imbyze de Batenburg 
79/2130 Alba amicorum Recueil de Dessins dediés à Jean Guillaume d'Imbyze de Batenburg 
79/2130 Alba amicorum Recueil de Dessins dediés à Jean Guillaume d'Imbyze de Batenburg 
79/2130 Alba amicorum Recueil de Dessins dediés à Jean Guillaume d'Imbyze de Batenburg 
79/2130 Alba amicorum Recueil de Dessins dediés à Jean Guillaume d'Imbyze de Batenburg 
79/2130 Alba amicorum Recueil de Dessins dediés à Jean Guillaume d'Imbyze de Batenburg 
79/2130 Alba amicorum Recueil de Dessins dediés à Jean Guillaume d'Imbyze de Batenburg 
- Prob. lacks a few drawings (most lvs. numbered in upper corner and numbering occas. skipping).
= Johan Willem van Imbyze van Batenburg (1756-1837) was a high-ranking Dutch military officer. Many drawings in his album amicorum were made by other officers and are military-themed. Several drawings are of remarkably high quality. Also containing some fine maritime views with ships, two nice trompe l'oeil drawings and three drawings with a movable part, i.a. a fine drawing of a butterfly with one liftable wing revealing a skull and bones and a particularly naughty drawing titled "Hony soit qui mal y pense", showing a blind beggar stepping on a lady's dress, thus uncovering her bottom. A small portion of flimsy paper covering the compromising bodypart can be lifted by gently blowing from the side. An accompanying letter by the draughtsman states: "Hoog Geachte Generaal! Toen ik hierbij leggend vrouwebeeldje ongeveer had afgetekend komt een arme blinde bedelaar op het kleed van een der dames treden en brengt mij daar door in de grootste verlegenheid, daar ik gene kans zie de veroorzaakte naaktheid weder te bedekken, gelukkig dat het slegts van agteren is. Had de dame maar een onderrok aangetogen, waarschijnlijk is dit verzuym aan de brandende hitte van deze zomer toeteschrijven (...)".
Some names of contributors: F.D.V. Cornabé, C. de Bonstetten, P. Duvelaer van Campen, J.A. van Mansvelt, F. van Gorkum and C.P.J. Hoijnck van Papendrecht. SEE ILUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
79 2131 Anonymous 18th cent 
79 2131 Anonymous 18th cent 
79 2131 Anonymous 18th cent 
79 2131 Anonymous 18th cent 
- One leaf w. text partly torn off; a few lvs. blank.
= Contains entries probably by a student in the context of Zeeland (i.a. Middelburg and Goes are mentioned): poems, songs, short essays, epistles and probationes pennae in Dutch and French. One of the poems is signed and dated "Met vriendschap den 23 december 1776 P.J. Convenent" (cf. NNBW VII, p.319). Curious texts include an essay on "Devoir de la femme", a poem titled "Apollo de Koekekneder" and a "Proeve eener Anacreontische Dicht-luym ter Verjaring van A.J.R." (signed by P.J. Convenent). A number of texts deal with the departure of a friend of the author, called "A.V.J.", to Amsterdam to continue his studies there, incl. a kind of recipe "De Toebereiding eener Mextuur tot Helpingen der Vriendendroefheidt over het Vertrek van den H. A.V.J. student in de Medicijnen nae den Apotheek van 't Gasthuijs te Amsterdam".
Warnsinck, W.H. a.o. Dichtstukjes van verschillende inhoud. Manuscript commonplace book, ±1830, pen and ink, (2),55,[35 blank lvs.],(2)p., contemp. hcalf.
- Lower hinge broken. Title ticket on spine dam. and illegible.
= Collection of various poems originally published in i.a. the "Almanak aan bevalligheid en deugd gewijd" (1819-1826): W.H. WARNSINCK, Piramus en Thisbe, T.J. KERKHOVEN, De Kloosterling en het Meisje, W. MESSCHERT, De wijze Koning en A.J. TEN HAGEN, Kupido's Magt.
79 2132 Art Chagall Marc 1887 1985 
= Most letters thanking for presents etc. and on making appointments. "(...) J'espère, bien sûr, qu'une exposition pourra avoir lieu en Hongrie et qu'à cette occasion il me sera possible de venir dans votre pays (...)" (11/06/1969); "Je suis content d'apprendre que l'exposition est bien réussie et je m'en réjouis pour tous ceux qui ont travaille à son organisation (...)" (26/09/1972); "(...) Je suis profondément touché par votre lettre. Je me rappelle de votre visite chez nous et j'espère que j'aurai le plaisir de vous revoir un jour chez nous à Saint-Paul (...)" (15/10/1984).
79 2133 Art Sluijters Jan 1881 1957 
79 2133 Art Sluijters Jan 1881 1957 
79 2133 Art Sluijters Jan 1881 1957 
79 2133 Art Sluijters Jan 1881 1957 
- One letter w. sm. tear in lower part.
= Three letters by Jan Sluijters concerning a portrait he is making of Madeleine Baekers-de Vlam, i.a. asking when she will pose for him and in the letter to her husband Willy asking about the shipment of the finished portrait. Madeleine de Vlam was a patron of the arts together with her husband Willy Baekers (director of the Eindhoven textile company Baekers & Raijmakers). Both Jan Sluijters and Bart van der Leck made an ex libris for Madeleine.
79 2134 Art Wouters R 1882 1916 Wouters N 1886 1971 
- First 2 letters w. filing holes in left blank margin.
= Concerning the selling of drawings by Rik Wouters and on returning photographs. "(...) Myn bedoeling was niet aan particulieren in Nederland de teekening dat [sic] U mee nam te verkopen. Den prys die ik U gegeven heb was bedoeld voor het Museum van Den Haag. U begrijpt toch zeker wel dat ik geen Crediet kan geven aan onbekende menschen, maar wel aan de directie van het Museum voor schoone Kunsten, afdeling Prenten Cabinet. (...) Voor de teekening dat U hebt verkocht en betaalbaar is na nieuwjaar wensch ik te weten wie ze aankocht. Voor U zelve mag U voor Uw moeite een der etsen kiezen, die schenk ik U met plezier (...)" [05/11/1953]. "(...) Als U kosten heeft voor my dan geef ik U dat terug zoo gauw den Heer Hannema zal zyne teekening betaald heeft. Ik ken zeer goed dezen heer en vindt het goed dat hy den liefhebber was (...)" [17/11/53].
WITH the carbon copies of 2 letters by Nol Gregoor to Nel Wouters. - ADDED: a photograph of Nol Gregoor and the artist Kamerlingh Onnes and 2 letters by H.L.C. Jaffé (also on photographs or Rik Wouters) and J.W. de Gruyter (on photographs of Paula Modersohn), both to Nol Gregoor.
79 2135 Astronomy Anonymous 17th cent 
79 2135 Astronomy Anonymous 17th cent 
79 2135 Astronomy Anonymous 17th cent 
79 2135 Astronomy Anonymous 17th cent 
79 2135 Astronomy Anonymous 17th cent 
79 2135 Astronomy Anonymous 17th cent 
79 2135 Astronomy Anonymous 17th cent 
- Contents loose(ning); first and final lvs. sl. waterst./ frayed; plates w. sm. tears on folds; some lvs. empty.
= Contains 7 chapters of an (autograph?) work on cosmography, with astronomical propositions and mathematical computations, specifically regarding the position of the stars/ constellations and the calculation of time (paragraphs on i.a. the caelum stellatum, sphoera, theorica planetarum and horologia). We could not trace the manuscript's contents to any published work. The text is accomp. by rare engr. plates from printed works, i.a. the fold. world map by GIOVANNI MAGINI ("Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio", the reduced Mercator-Porro map, orig. publ. Cologne, 1597. Shirley 202) and 4 fold. maps/ plates by JACOB VAN DER HEYDEN: two planispheres (from Habrecht and Sturm's Planiglobium coeleste, et terrestre, orig. publ. Strasb., 1628), a sundial ("Praeterit hicce dies, nescitur origo secundi, an labor, an requies: sic transit fabula mundi", possibly after E. Welper, ±1630) and "Cubus Sciothericus" (±1620). The drawings show i.a. a volcano, an astronomer, the phases of the moon and sundials. The second part of the manuscript contains (the calculations for) a calendar of saints. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
79 2136 Austria Leopold I 1640 1705 
- Folded in middle; sl. foxed. Otherwise fine.
= An ordinance specifying taxes due for the people of Vienna and Austria after the Second Northern War. Countersigned by ?
79/2137 Belgian Revolt Lot of ±70 manuscript and 7 printed documents 
= Mostly popular laudatory songs or poems, mostly in Dutch. For a large part in the same hand, so perhaps copied by the writer. A few of the printed titles: "Het lied van den held Van Geen" (Dordrecht, printed by J. v.d. Wal) and "Voor de onderscheidene godsdienst-oefeningen der protestanten bij de derde divisie in het Kamp" (added in manuscript: "bij Oirschot 1834"). Some manuscript titles: "Den 5den februarij 1831. Volkslied (...). Wie pronkt voortaan aan Claessenszij? Van Spijk! (...)", "De Landstorm", "Aan den koning" (dated 23 November 1830, Bergen-op-zoom, signed by J.F. van Goethem), "Flankeur (...) 5e Comp. Noordh. Schutterij", "Wapenkreet aan het volk der 7 gewesten of Noordelijk gedeelte des Rijks!".
79/2138 Belgium Testament of Philippe François van Steelant canon of the Saint Donaas cathedral in Bruges 
- Vellum dam. and clumsily repaired.
= Philippe François died on 19th of June, 1726. He was the son of Philippe van Steelant (1625-1697) and Petronella de la Neve (1623-1681).
79/2139 Breda Lot of 5 manuscript deeds/ transfer documents 
= The sale of a house in Breda in 1564 by Niclaes Verstuys from Antwerp to Cornelissen Waechmans, situated next to the property of a Peter Pigge and called Den Hert; the sale of a house called Den Noort in 1643; also 'Schepenbrieven' in which Willem Lips declares to have sold the house and premises called the Witte Clock 'op het Ghinnekenseynde' to Peeter de Lint (1658), the sale of the same house by De Lint to Johannes van Dongen (1666) and the sale of the same house by Johannes van Dongen to Peeter Jacobsz. van Gestel (1671).
79 2140 Calligraphy Gross J 1st half 20th cent 
79 2140 Calligraphy Gross J 1st half 20th cent 
- Silk over spine worn/ sl. dam.
Kruitwagen, B. (1874-1954). De sensus Monasticus. N.pl., (1932), manuscript in pen and blue ink, (4),24,(1)p., bookdecoration in watercolour (2 vignettes, title-p., head-piece and tail-piece), orig. wr. w. coat of arms in blue, red, silver and gold ink on frontcover.
79 2141 Calligraphy Monogrammist J v D late 18th/ early 19th cent 
- Small repaired tear in left margin. Not examined out of frame.
= Possibly made for the mathematical society "Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap", founded in 1778 which carries the device "Een onvermoeide Arbeid komt alles te boven". From the collection of P.J. and L. Buijnsters-Smets. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.
79 2142 Calligraphy Ruijl a Blokzijl P 18th cent 
79 2142 Calligraphy Ruijl a Blokzijl P 18th cent 
79/2143 Cards and cardgames Een zeeker Geval onlangs tusschen een Heer en zyn Knegt voorgevalle te Londe omtrent een spel Kaarten 't welk verklaard wierd te zyn een Almanach en Bijbel 
= Short play (not referable for us) in which a servant is falsely accused of being hooked on cardplaying and gambling. The final 3p. contain a short treatise on the history of playing cards ("Over de Speelkaarten, en de Beduidenis der Beelden en Figuuren op den zelve").
79/2144 Commonplace book Manuscript notebook 
79/2144 Commonplace book Manuscript notebook 
- Lower hinge broken; 1 quire loose; ms. pagination (erroneously skips 2p.); some lvs. empty.
= Alphabetical commonplace book (running from A to L) of important Latin (literary) concepts, esp. virtues and vices. Each entry contains quotations from Virgil, Cicero, Terence and/ or Phaedrus, i.a. under 'avaritia' Virgil's Aeneid 3.54-57 is cited and under 'imago' Cicero's Ad familiares 5.12.7.
79 2145 France Stuart de Bonair H 17th cent 
79 2145 France Stuart de Bonair H 17th cent 
- A few lvs. inner margin strengthened; pagination skips 2p. Joints splitting; spine-ends sl. dam.; sl. worn along extremities.
= Henri Stuart de Bonair, historiographer of the King of France and one of the 25 members of the Scottish Guard, is known for his Sommaire royal de l'histoire de France (Paris, 1676). From the library of king LOUIS PHILIPPE I, sold at auction in 1852 (acc. to annot. on first free endpaper). Library stamp of the royal residences Palais-Royal and Château d'Eu on first page. On the auction and binding: Catalogue de livres provenant des bibliothèques du feu roi Louis-Philippe (Paris/ London, 1852), no. 2184. On the content: Le Long 26693; Michaud V, p.82: "Si le chevalier (...), 1671, manuscrit in-8ş., dont on connaît plusieurs copies."
79/2146 Freemasonry Catchisme Maçonnique 
- Fingersoiled; a few lvs. soiled/ stained.
= A text covering 63 questions and answers, probably intended for a novice in a masonic loge."1e Vraag. Mon Frere! Van waar Koomt gy? Antw: Tres venerable! Uit de Loge van St Jean. (...)".
79/2147 Gastronomy Recipe book 
79/2147 Gastronomy Recipe book 
79/2147 Gastronomy Recipe book 
- First few lvs. soiled/ dam. in lower margin.
= Extensive, neatly written recipe book containing ±940 recipes, mostly Austrian cuisine, with the following sections: Saucen; Gemüse; Fleischspeisen; Eingemachtes; Geflügel; Wildpret; Fische; Mehlspeisen; Eierspeisen; Nudlspeisen; Polenta; Bischamel; Teige; Pastetten; Strudeln; Guglhupf; Kuchen; Pouding; Chaudeau; Verschied: Mehlspeisen; Auflauf; Koche; Amoletten [sic]; Krapfen; Obstspeisen; Brodte; Torten; Bachereien; Creme und Sulzen; Gefrorne; Eingesottene; Salsen and Nachtrag. Contains recipes for i.a. Nudelknödel; Gedünstet Ochsenschlepp; Brünnerwurstl; Haschee (2x); Apfelstrudel; Salsenschlangl; Apfelstritzerl; Kaiserbrot; Wiener Torte and Vanillekipfel.
79 2148 Genealogy and heraldry Anonymous 2nd half 19th cent 
79 2148 Genealogy and heraldry Anonymous 2nd half 19th cent 
79 2148 Genealogy and heraldry Anonymous 2nd half 19th cent 
- Occas. sl. foxed. Upper joint splitting; binding partly sl. discoloured.
= Nicely illustrated work w. many coats of arms and extensive genealogical information on the Van den Bogaert and connected families, dating back to the 17th century. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXX.
79 2149 Genealogy and heraldry Arckel C van 1719 1783 
79 2149 Genealogy and heraldry Arckel C van 1719 1783 
- Bookblock split; loose(ning). Binding rather heavily worn.
= Contains the genealogical table of the Van Arckel family from the 10th to 14th century. Several of their 17th/ 18th cent. descendents, among whom the author Cornelius Jr., were preachers.
WITH a portrait of the author (col. crayon, 42x34,5 cm.).
- Waterst. in upper left corner; some surface dam. spots in right margin.