2374 - 2509 MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS
- Contents partly soiled. Binding worn/ dam.
= Apart from the recipes (21p.), the volume contains 4 other sections: 1. (13)p. with a diary written in German, dated between 1748-1778 (mainly on births and deaths of family members); 2. (1)p. with a similar Dutch manuscript, dated between 1802-1820; 3. (17)p. with pharmaceutical recipes written in German and Dutch; 4. (5)p. with miscellaneous entries written in German and Dutch.
- One document sl. dam.
= Contains i.a. the assessment of inheritance tax payable by Weijntje upon her husband's death (1750); several estate inventory lists (3x, 1750-1765); Weijntje's will (1756); documents pertaining to the commissioning and payment of executors Jan Tukker and Dirk Kemp (3x, 1764) and various payment receipts and quittances.
= Containing i.a. a confidential report of a meeting between soap industry representatives on the subject of minimum wage (1941), documents pertaining to the German occupation (9x, 1942-1945) and appointments to various national and regional administrative functions and industrial committees (22x, 1930-1953).
= Archive centered around Marie Henriette Amelie Clignett (1809-1876) and Carel Lodewijk Baron Van Heerdt and their respective ancestors and offspring. I.a. "Generaale Geslagtleijst van de famillie van Clignett" (pen and ink, 32 lvs. (recto only), contemp. boards); a contemporary photographic portrait of Marie Henriette Amelie Clignette, manuscript family trees, (botanical) drawings by family members and views.
= The Emtinck family has its roots in Antwerp. After the fall of Antwerp (1585), family members relocated to the Northern Netherlands.
- (Contemp.) ink smudge on first leaf; a few sm. scattered stamps. Spine splitting.
= The Harinck family was a family of merchants and regents from Goes.
- One leaf sl. smudged.
= Coats of arms of 6 families from the Southern Netherlands: Le Flameng, Aerssen, Moreau, Della Faille, De Caluart and Vanden Eynde.
"'t Wapen van Pieter Post (Architecq van Prins Frederik Hendrik pr: v: Orange) (...)". Armorial drawing, gouache on vellum, 18x13,5 cm., late 17th cent., manuscript text in pen and ink on verso. - AND 5 others, 18th-(early) 20th cent., incl. armorial drawings and a manuscript genealogical tree w. num. watercolour coats of arms, dated 1731 (doubled; folded; heavily worn).
= Correspondence and notarial acts concerning the legacy of a member of the noble family Von Goetzen from Silezia and Moravia. Contains several pieces (including the document on vellum) from the court of Frederik II the Great (signed by his secretaries).
= Notarial acts concerning i.a. a legacy to be received by Jan van Wijngaarden Goedschalk and his sister Christina after the passing of their parents.
AND 1 other document on vellum (mortgage bond between Frederik Adolf of Lippe and Louis Pieter van Brederode van Bolsward, dated 1701, w. attached red wax seal).
- Contents occas. sl. dustsoiled. Vellum soiled; foot of spine sl. chipped.
= Each part starts at a cover. "Kunst de landmeeters" shows a description of how to measure angles and other elements of geometrical figures, supported by technical drawings in the same hand. The 2nd part provides recipes to cure horses from i.a. worms, cancer, other tumors or "Eksteroogen".
- Most wax seals broken from clumsy opening.
= August Wilhelm von Preussen was a general major in the Prussian army, a brother of Frederick the Great and was his official heir until his death. Letters to Alexander Sweder von Spaen, a personal friend of him and his brother. In most of the letters he thanks him for sending "harangs" (herring) and "huitres" (oysters) (the herrings that he receives are always better than the ones he obtain in Germany). One letter, dated 24 August 1757, has a black mourning border (his mother Sophia Dorothea of Hanover had died a month earlier). The letter dated 2nd January 1743 is a New year's wish but also a thank you note for convincing a deserter from his cavalry regiment to return to his station.
- One letter portion torn off and reattached.
= Interesting collection of letters addressed to Alexander Sweder von Spaen, heer van Ringenberg, Haminkeln en Hardenstein (1703-1768), a confidant of the young Frederick who allegedly took part in the latter's failed attempt to escape to England together with his (as his generally assumed) lover Hans Hermann von Katte in 1730 (the so called Katte affair). The 4 earliest letters in this collection are short notes by an adolescent Frederick and carry a rather secretive tone, i.a. "Mon cher Span, je vous prie de faire apeler le granadié quno[?] des [?] et de lui dire de venir à 6 heure aupres du trou[?] et de m'entendre. Prenez garde que personne ne le remarque" and (in a letter dated "Berlin ce 21 Mai 1730) "Mon cher Span, je vous prie de dire au petit Keiser[?] si il ne pouvait point venir inconito [sic] lundi au soir à Berlin (...) et m'atendre jusqu'a 11 heure de 9 jusqu'a 11 heure [sic] et que je lui parlerez [sic] la, mais que sur tout il tiene silence (...)". It is tempting (but undoubtedly tricky) to identify "petit Keiser" as Von Katte who was imprisoned and executed (with Frederick being forced to watch from his cell window) on 6 November 1730.
The later letters are of a friendly, though more formal character and are mostly written by a secretary, sometimes with an addendum by Frederick himself. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
= Answering a New Year wish by Alexander Sweder baron van Spaen, dated 26 December 1738. With the contemporary manuscript copy of the original letter by Van Spaen, signed (?). Van Spaen was at this time back in the favour of the king, after the Von Katte-affaire.
AND 2 other manuscript letters SIGNED "GFriedrich" by the same to the same, dated "Wesel, le 8t aug: 1738" and "Berlin 4 Januarij, 1740". - ADDED: 2 manuscript letters, 1x SIGNED by Reinhard baron Reede van Ginkel, dated "Berlin, 3 Aout 1731" and by (?), also dated "le 3 aout 1731" to Alexander Sweder van Spaen, both informing him that they have spoken favourably to King Friedrich Wilhelm on his behalf at a dinner, after he had fallen in disgrace with the King because of his role in the Von Katte-affair.
= Commander of the Dutch forces in the War of Austrian Succession. Giving him permission to accompany baron Reinhard van Reede-Ginkel ("Ghinckel") on a voyage to Berlin.
= Letters to i.a. Jacob van Spaen (died in 1654) and Alexander van/von Spaen (1619-1692). The latter was i.a. page to Frederik Hendrik, prince of Orange and later became a military officer. The oldest letter is a letter of condolence by AMALIA VAN SOLMS ("Amelie d'Orange" (1602-1675)) to Jacob van Spaen on the death of his wife. Also includes 3 letters by Johann Georg II, Fürst von Anhalt-Dessau (1627-1693) to the same; 3 manuscript letters (dated 1737-1743) by Wilhelm VIII von Hessen-Kassel (1688-1760) to Alexander Sweder van Spaen (1703-1768); 2 letters by Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1712-1775) to the same; 4 letters by Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1721-1792) to the same; 3 letters by Ludwig Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen (1710-1759) to the same; letter by Charles, Prince of Soubise (1715-1787); a letter dated 1763, by an unknown author (signature erased) on Albertine-Elisabeth Pater (warden of Van Spaen), who divorced her husband in 1763 and moved to Paris, where eventually she became a mistress of king Louis XV and a spy; letter of condolence to Elisabeth Agnes Jacoba van Nassau-La Lecq (1724-1798), widow of Alexander Sweder van Spaen, by Charles N.A. Comte d'Oultremont (1716-1771).
= Interesting collection concerning properties, inheritances, appointments, personal correspondence etc., all written in or concerning 19th century Germany.
= Thanking Mr. Burrell for his letter and his time as solicitor to "myself and the Duchy". "Although your successor begins with the fundamental disadventage of having been to the wrong university, I am sure he will live up to your recommendations!".