78 2441 House of Orange Willem IV Prince and stadtholder of the Dutch Republic 1711 1751 
78 2441 House of Orange Willem IV Prince and stadtholder of the Dutch Republic 1711 1751 
= Probably letters to Lodewijk Theodoor van Nassau-LaLecq (1701-1748), major in the regiment of general Hop. Most of the letters are New Year wishes, occasionally with more personal information, such as the letter of 12 February 1746, written in French, in which Willem IV apologizes for late response to Lodewijk Theodor's letter (it was mislaid by one of his secretaries), writes that he hopes to see him soon and that he will find "La Petite Caroline bien grandie, et devenue assez drole. [continuing in Dutch:] Wij hebben er geloof ik weer Een op stapel. Adieu mon bon Ami (...)". In 1744 he writes about the weaknesses and the losses of the Dutch troups in the skirmishes in Northern France in May 1744. In 1745 he writes about the absence of any news from the war, and about the pleasure that the doll that he has sent to his daughter as a present has given her, and that she has for the first time pronounced his name correctly and clearly as Beverweert (instead of "Blake naise") after she had asked her mother Princess Royal Anna of Hannover, "Mama wat is Blake maise his true name". In his letter of 25 August 1745, he congratulates Lodewijk Theodoor on his success in the battlefield: "il est beau de voire comment vos garettes Holl. [...?] et embellissent toutes les Petites Rencontres [continued in Dutch:] zij noemen dat de Actie van Asche, en seggen dat U [...?] overal gedurende deselve in het heetste van het vuer geweest is (...)". Also writes about his daughter: "(...) et la Petite qui est ici pendant que j'ecris fait dire a Blak maise, that he must come to [Pins Carnill (?)], and that he has a great Wigg." An interesting series of letters, shedding some light on a friendship that clearly was dear to Willem IV and his family.
78 2442 House of Orange Willem IV Prince and stadtholder of the Dutch Republic 1711 1751 
78 2442 House of Orange Willem IV Prince and stadtholder of the Dutch Republic 1711 1751 
- One letter torn in half.
= Interesting collection of letters addressed to Alexander Sweder van Spaen, heer van Ringenberg, Haminkeln en Hardenstein (1703-1768), commander in the army of the United Provinces and close friend of Frederik the Great. In the letter dated April 4th 1739 Willem IV requests Van Spaen to stop the "Prince Royal" (Frederik the Great?) who is on his way to Zutphen and to hand him a letter that he has enclosed. The letter has an urgent tone. In the letter dated August 23rd 1742 Willem IV responds to a letter by Van Spaen informing him the "Roi de Prusse" will be visiting Wesel. Willem IV lets Van Spaen know that he will be travelling from the "Grand Maison" the next day. The final letter dated May 28th 1746 discusses the "Roi de Berlin" and the "Roi de Prusse": "Je vous suis tres oblige mon cher Spaan de votre enactitude a me donner des nouvelles de Berlin (...) Je suis surpris que le Roi de Prusse ne vous ait pas encor parlé, vous faites tres bien de vous tenir discretement a distance, mais pour quoi vous cacher derriere les autres courtisans j'aime vous mieux se mettre de facon a etre appercue". Other letters are i.a. New Year wishes and enquiries about an illness that Van Spaen has contracted ("Je suis bien aisé que vous etes en train de vous remettre, et je souhaite qu'on vous aye guerri radicalement d'un mal toujours terrible, mais surtout pour gens de notre metier"). It appears Alexander Sweder van Spaen acted as an intermediary between the different royal households of the 18th century.
78 2443 House of Orange Willem V 1748 1806 
= On the commissioning of "Professor Juris Honorarius Elias Wigeri" as "Procureur Generaal der Landschappe van Vriesland".
78 2444 House of Orange Willem V 1748 1806 
= Letter of condolance on the death of her husband "den Heere Generaal Major Baron [Alexander Sweder] van Spaen".
AND 1 other manuscript letter SIGNED "Charles van Nassau", to the same, on the same occasion (vertical fold).
78 2445 Husbandry Anonymous 19th cent 
- Formerly folded; sl. soiled and frayed.
= A weekly description of the daily tasks of an unidentified Dutch maid. Probably written by the head of the household.
78 2446 Italy Anonymous 19th cent 
= Domenico Tempio (1750-1821) was an Italian writer who mainly wrote in Sicilian language. This work is a contemporary transcript of his collection of poetry, originally published in 1814/ 1815.
78/2447 Leyden Lot of 7 manuscript documents 
= Includes the partition of the considerable estate of Maria Vincentendr. van Doeswerff between her son Vincent van Gooten, her sister Anthonia Vincentendr. van Doeswerff and other potential title holders, consisting of i.a. real estate in and surrounding Leyden ("een huijs ende erff staende binnen de voors. stede opten Nieuwen Rhijn aen de Vischbrugge genaempt den Boschboom", another "staende inde vergrootinge der Stadt Leijden aen de Oude Chingel omtrent de Nieuwe Maeren", "Item (...) staende mede binnen Leijden opte Legewerff anders genaempt de Kraeyvangersteech", "Een stuck weijlandts (...) gelegen in den Ambachte van Soeterwoude achter 't Huijs te Croonesteijn", "Een stuck hoijlandts (...) gelegen over de Poel inden Ambachte van Oegstgeest", "Den thuijn" and "de bleijckerije gelegen mede buijten de Zijlepoort inden Ambachte van Leijderdorp", 1643); a listing of promissory notes from the estate of Willem Joppen van Toll, compiled by bailiff Willem Duercant (1647) and 3 documents pertaining to the criminal proceedings against Thimon van Schoonhoven, former Leyden mayor, council member and VOC director (advice by Leyden's legal council on the question whether Van Schoonhoven may be extradited to the Court of Holland in order to face criminal charges of forsaking his oath in the civil case between him and Philippus Theodorus van Cloon, a copy of Van Schoonhoven's request to the States of Holland and West Friesland arguing his being summoned to appear in Court is unjust and a resolution by the same States denying Van Schoonhoven's request, thus opening the way to prosecution (1764)).
78 2448 Literature Bodenstedt F von 1819 1892 
78 2448 Literature Bodenstedt F von 1819 1892 
= Friedrich von Bodenstedt, author of i.a. the succesful collection of poems Die Lieder des Mirza Schaffy (1851), translator of various Russian and English works and finally director of the court theatre at Meiningen. The present letter difficult to read, but begins with mentioning that the day before writing he had buried his mother, who had died at the age of 86 years. Provenance (as stated on the printed folding leaf in which the letter is kept: "Autografensammlung von Amy Twiss". Amy Twiss (1860-1947) was married to A.L. Grothe and lived in "Villa Corvin", one of the main mansions of Hilversum (demolished in 1987). Amy Twiss founded the first Dutch open-air theater on the country estate in 1904. The three following autographs of this lot have the same provenance and are kept in an identical folding leaf.
AND 3 other AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by OTTO VON CORVIN (author and adventurer after whom "Villa Corvin" was named), PAUL ALBERT ("maitre de conférences à l'École normale") and WILHELM CAMPHAUSEN (artist).
78 2449 Literature Burroughs W S 1914 1997 
78 2450 Literature Canetti E 1905 1994 
- One leaf w. sm. tear on fold.
= All sent to the "Internationaal Literatuur Bureau": giving permission for the performance of his play Hochzeit by Groningen students [(10/04/1982]; sending a contract for a Dutch paperback edition of Het Martyrium [07/06/1989]; and on theater adaptions of his works. "(...) Eben erhalte ich von Verlag Polak und Van Gennep eine Theaterbearbeitung meines Romans 'Die Blendung' zugeschickt. Ik kann auf keinen Fall meine Einwilligung zu einer Theaterbearbeitung des Romans geben. Man hat mich nie um Erlaubnis gebeten (...) und ich bin sehr erstaunt darüber (...). Ich wäre Ihnen dankbar, wenn man das glecih klarstellen könnte (...)" [08/06/1990]. "(...) Ich habe nun einen Brief vom Theater de Balie bekommen (...) und muss mich leider doch gegen eine dramatische Bearbeitung von 'Masse und Macht' entscheiden. Ich kann mich nicht ausführlich dazu äussern, da ich in nächste Zeit ins Krankenhaus muss. Aus denselben Grund bitte ich Sie, in meinem Namen den Theater mitzuteilen, dass ich eine Bearbeitung von 'Masse und Macht' fürs Theater auf keinen Fall erlauben kann (...)" [14/12/1992]. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
78 2451 Literature Harraden B 1864 1936 
78 2451 Literature Harraden B 1864 1936 
78 2451 Literature Harraden B 1864 1936 
78 2451 Literature Harraden B 1864 1936 
= Beatrice Harraden, novelist and suffragette, best known for her Ships that pass in the Night (1893). Two letters addressed to other people (one to the journalist/ critic Meredith Starr and one to an unknown lady). In the letters in the album Beatrice Harraden discusses her novels with a correspondent of the name Mr J. Nicol Dunn, whose views she values highly. The letters in the album are preceded by a typescript factual introduction giving a short biography and listing some of her more famous works.
Beerbohm, M. (1872-1956). AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED "Max Beerbohm", to "Miss Hepworth-Dixon", pen and ink, dated "June 23 1923", on a small card, recto only.
= Accepting an invitation on "next Monday at about 6 o' clock".
ADDED: an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the novelist ARTHUR MORRISON and 5 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED to various correspondents by AGNES REPPLIER (American essayist, 1855-1950) and a MANUSCRIPT LETTER written on behalf of Agnes Repplier by her cousin E. REPPLIER WITMER.
78 2452 Literature Langner Ilse 1899 1987 
= Nothing could be traced on these UNPUBLISHED(?) poems. Comprises: "Party" (3 lvs.), "Die Wissenschaftlerin", "Die Zugehfrau", "Zeit für uns" (2 lvs.), "Die Bescheidenen", "Problem Nr.1", "Die Beste" (3 lvs.), "Moritat von der treuen Sekretärin" (3 lvs.), "Das Schlüsselkind" (2 lvs.), "Die Frau des A-Forschers beim Grabsteinsetzmeister" (2 lvs.), "Heimweh" (2 copies, each 3 lvs.), "Waschfrau" (2 lvs.), "Die letzten Königinnen" (3 lvs.), "Wurzellos", "Blumenstock", "Im Glashaus" (2 lvs.), "Büronette" (2 lvs.), "Gebete" (6 lvs.), "Die es immer geben wird'-" (4 lvs.), "Die Prothese", "Witwe, 34" (2 lvs.), "Witwe, 42" and "Witwe, 55".
AND 18 miscell. others by MARTIN BEHEIM-SCHWARZBACH (typescr. letter signed), ANDRÉ COUTEAU (5 autogr. letters signed), BERNHARD GRZIMEK (2 typescr. letters signed); SEBASTIAN HAFFNER (autogr. letter signed), TORE HAMSUN (son of Knut Hamsun; short typescr. letter signed); ROLF HOCHHUTH (typescr. postcard signed), KARL JASPERS (autogr. letter signed), KATHARINA MANN ("Frau Thomas Mann" [letterhead]; 2 short typescr. letters signed) and FRANCIS POLLINI (4 short typescr. letters signed). - ADDED: a caricature portrait drawing of HERBERT SANDBERG by ? (black ballpoint).
78 2453 Maritime history Keimpema P van 
78 2453 Maritime history Keimpema P van 
= Stamp of "Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart" on first free endpaper. Nothing could be traced on Petrus van Keimpema, but a loosely inserted "Certificate of Discharge" identifies him as born in Lemmer in 1850 and as being apprenticed as mate on the "Minerva" between Sept. 28, 1875 and June 1, 1876. Apparently he went to the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart in Amsterdam, but did not opt for a career at sea. According to the registers that we consulted he married in 1880 and died in 1907. His job is described office clerk.
78/2454 Maritime history Redery van t'Schip St Augustin Gevoert door Capn Cornelis Bogaart 
78/2454 Maritime history Redery van t'Schip St Augustin Gevoert door Capn Cornelis Bogaart 
= Registration of the costs for 11 voyages of the "hoekerschip" St. Augustinus from Amsterdam to Bilbao and back, and their distribution over it's various owners (Arnold Hooghart, the widow of Pieter van Veen & son, Guillaume Grou & Libault, François Bigail, Hendrik Willink Jurriaansz, Messieurs Lens & Blok and Louis Michel). From the collection of Charles baron Gillès de Pélichy (w. Galerie Garnier ticket on upper pastedown).
BOUND WITH: "Mevrouw Roest haarwhg. Reekening met Albert Brinkman". Manuscript accounting book, dated 1811-1816, (66)p. w. balance sheets in pen and ink.
= Containing entries for i.a. "de doodcedullen van Zal.r den Heer Lucas Pomp. Occo", "Regenten van 't R.C. Weeshuys en Armenhuys ter Nieuwer Amstel" and "aan Regenten ter Nieuwer Amstel voor de Jaarlijkse Donatie ter gedagtenis van Zal.r Jonkheer Louis François Marie". Françoise Angélique Gillès (1758-1826), widow of Arnold Roest van Alkemade, was governess of the so-called Occo's Hofje in Amst. According to these accounts, she donated a total of fl. 9.000,- to the almshouse from January 1812 to February 1816.
78 2455 Mathematics Anonymous late 17th cent 
- Lacks the first leaf; 2 leaves loose and frayed; several leaves at the lacking. Vellum used.
= Nearly written manuscript, possibly a teacher's handbook, dealing with i.a. the following subjects: "Multiplicatio", "Additio in gelde", "Oeffening der specien", "Den regel van Drieën", and "Den regel van drieën gebroken". The "Oeffening der specien" contains i.a. the following excercise: "12 van de vermaarde stad. 1 stad | 25 strate x 50= 1250 Huisen x3= 3750 Kamers x2= 7500 Dogters x2= 15000 jongmans".
78/2456 Mathematics Rekenboek van Jan van Olm uitgewerkt door Timen Klaassen Begonnen den 8 Februari 1808 
78/2456 Mathematics Rekenboek van Jan van Olm uitgewerkt door Timen Klaassen Begonnen den 8 Februari 1808 
- First 5 lvs. frayed/ dam.; 1 quire loosening. Binding soiled/ dam.
= Contains calculations based on exercises from Groningen arithmetic teacher Jan van Olm's Arithmetica ofte rekenkonst (1st ed. 1729), of which the 13th enl. ed. was published by his son Mattheus van Olm in 1808. Sections include "Multiplicatie", "Divisie in Gelde", "Regel van drieen in 't geheel", "Multiplicatie in 't gebroken", "Practijk", "Kassiers Rekening", "Interest op Interest Rekening", "Rabat of Schadelijke Interest", "Regel van Proportie of gelijkmaken" and "Ketting Regel".
"Oplossingen der Voorstellen, voorkomende in het Meetkundig Rekenboek van J. van Cleeff, door H. van der Meer". Manuscript, pen and ink on paper, 1850, (117)p., contemp. hcalf.
= Sections include "Over den inhoud der driehoeken", "Van de Trapeziums", "Van de gelijkvormigheid der figuren", "Van den kubiek en het parallelopsipedium" en "Gemengde voorstellen der driehoeksmeting".
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
78 2457 Mathematics Waeijer C de 17th cent and anonymous 17th cent 
Anonymous (late 17th cent.). (Mathematical treatise on practical geometry). Manuscript in pen and ink on paper, late 17th cent., (2 blank),(63) lvs., occas. w. calligraphed divisional title-pages and illustrations in pen and ink and grey wash, 19th cent.(?) paper ream wrapper w. large woodcut of the manufacturer and "Pro Patria", "IV" and "Super Fyn Fyn", w. paper ticket mounted on frontcover w. ms. "XVa", folio.
- The first work w. 1 leaf lacking lower outer corner w. loss of text. The second work w. some lvs. loose and partly waterstained in lower margin. Vellum binding stained; paper wrapper splitting on spine and worn.
= A surveyor Cornelis de Waeijer, who lived in Scherpenisse, was officially admitted to the profession by the Court of Holland on 25th of May 1656 (E. Muller and K. Zandvliet, Admissies als landmeter in Nederland voor 1811, p.169). Probably written in the province South Holland or Zeeland, with the examples given in the text of calculations "St. Annaland", "Bergen op Zoom", "Tholen", "Iersickedamme", "in 't Eijlandt Goes", "Poortvliet", "Westerkerke", "Scherpenisse", "Maartensdijck" and "Heensen Molen", locations which, according to the text, can all be seen from "Oudt Vossemaer". The works are instructional texts for surveying land with use of mathematics. Names mentioned are Archimedes, Van Ceulen (De Arithmetische en Geometrische fondamenten, Leyden, 1615), P. Ramus, Meetkonst (Amst., 1622) and Euclides.
The surveys done in the second work involve extremely complex calculations.
Furthermore, the manuscripts closely resemble the manuscript BPL1970 kept at Leyden University. The Leyden manuscript (by W. Craeye) is dated 1658 and it contains the note that it was "gecopieert met haest".
On the paper: the first work on paper w. watermark of a five-pointed foolscap w. the 2 outer points w. circles (not found in Laurentius) and the second work w. watermark coat of arms of Amsterdam w. "IM" or "MI" (not found in Laurentius but this type of watermark is not found until after ±1690). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
78 2458 Mathematics With T de 18th cent 
- Bookblock sl. warped; vellum wrinkled and sl. worn.
= Contains chapters on i.a. "Divisio in Gelden", "Reductio ofte Casse Rekeninge", "Regel van Drijen", "Multiplicatio/ Divisio in het Gebroken" and "Practijk ofte Korte Rekeninge", all neatly written in a well legible hand. Nothing could be traced on Thomas de With.
78/2459 Medieval manuscripts Bifolium from a Book of Hours 
78 2460 Medieval manuscripts Book of Hours 
78 2460 Medieval manuscripts Book of Hours 
78 2460 Medieval manuscripts Book of Hours 
78 2460 Medieval manuscripts Book of Hours 
78 2460 Medieval manuscripts Book of Hours 
78 2460 Medieval manuscripts Book of Hours 
78 2460 Medieval manuscripts Book of Hours 
78 2460 Medieval manuscripts Book of Hours 
- Lacks parts of trece, sext, none and vespers to the Hours of the Virgin (and 3 full-page miniatures), a part of the Hours of the Holy Cross (and probably a full-page miniature); bookblock loose; a few miniatures occas. w. small pigment losses; some smudging to border decoration; gilding often turned white. A fine and well preserved manuscript with bright colours and gilding.
= CONTENTS: Parisian calendar, important Parisian saints mentioned in gold; Gospel Lessons; prayers (Obscero te/ O Intermerata); Hours of the Virgin for the use of Rome (lacks parts of sext, terce, none and vespers); Penitential Psalms and Litany; prayers; part of the Hours of the Cross [first part of text probably missing]; Hours of the Holy Spirit; Fifteen Joys of the Virgin and prayers.
DECORATION: MINIATURES (in order of appearance) 1. The Annunciation; 2. The Visitation (Mary meets St. Elisabeth); 3. The Nativity; 4. The Adoration of the Magi; 5. The coronation of Mary by an angel; 6. David at prayer; 7. The Pentecost (the Holy Spirit descends upon Mary and the apostles); 8. A funeral service in a church and 9. Mary and the Christ-child w. female patron. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.