- A few tiny holes and one larger hole w. loss of text; sl. stained/ soiled.
AND a small Hebrew mezoeza, also framed.
- Two lvs. dam. = Drawings of i.a. lizards, insects and human figures.
AND 1 other Batak manuscript (wooden covers loose).
- Wormholed.
AND 1 similar lontar manuscript.
- Occas. sl. fingersoiled; corner of 2 lvs. torn loose (1x reattached). Paintings on covers w. craquelure and some small flaked spots (mainly along margins).
= Most textleaves divided in 4 parts, each w. a diagonal calligraphed text and w. texlines above and below. The nice cover paintings show 2 halflength portraits of a Persian woman in an oval frame within a richly gilt ornamental border: the woman on the front fully dressed with her arms crossed before her breasts and the woman on the back touching her uncovered breast w. one hand and with her other hand pointing upwards.
- Sl. fingersoiled. = Seemingly also contains one line in Arabic.
- Most lvs. darkened/ fingersoiled in lower margin.
- Sl. worn; yellowed; wormholed.
- Bookblock loose; stained/ (finger)soiled throughout; corner of 2 lvs. torn off (repaired). Crudely rebacked; binding worn/ stained.
- Extensive owner's annots. in Persian writing on endpapers and final textleaf; occas. sl. fingersoiled; a few owner's entries/ annots. in English ("Hindoostan Stories", "W.A. Shualti(?) B.D."). Spine-ends dam.
= Provenance annot. on lower pastedown: "Bought at Quaritch. (No.470), [...] Black 22/5/51".
- Sl. fingersoiled; first leaf lacks sm. portion of upper corner and vaguely waterst. in lower margin (w. sl. bleeding of red ink).
= Two consecutive leaves, prob. the beginning of an official document from a court or palace. Persian text interspersed with Arabic (the title being entirely in Arabic). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Backstrip lacks portion at foot.
= In this extensive travelogue, Ina describes her train journey with a group of five people along the Rhine in 1870, starting in Steenwijk (Netherlands) via Elten (just across the German border) to Cologne. Here, she stays in the luxurious Dom-Hotel. Next, she travels to Bonn, Rolandseck, Remagen, (Schloss) Ahrenthal, Koblenz, Köningswinter and back to Cologne.
- Occas. sm .defects.
= Mainly deeds of transport and other notarial deeds for Rotterdam families, such as Rietstap, Van Waesberge, Bartels-Van de Stolp and Logeman.
= The first part ((14)p.), consists of a chapter listing 14 animals and a chapter headed: "Boomen - Vrugten planten en gewassen." in which 6 trees, fruits and plants are listed. The second part ((12)p.) contains riddles, humorous stories and French verses.
= Some of the signatures are loosely inserted or tipped in, and almost all are dated by the collector.
= Nice certificate, issued by the University of Rheno-Trajectinae, now the University of Utrecht.
- Upper and lower hinge weak, last free endpaper loose; some sl. occas. foxing. Binding badly worn, covers cracked; spine-ends repaired w. tape.
= Contains transcripts of various texts by Coenraad Librecht Temminck, done by one of his children. Comprises: "Geschiedenis van mijn leven (...)" (p.1-102; w. annot. "Tot dusver door Coenraad Librecht Temminck zelve beschreven" at the end); "Naschrift door een zijner kinderen" (p.103-104); "Journaal van eene gedane reize naar Batavia door C.L. Temminck. 1820" (p.104-118; report in rhyming verses, "Op de reede van Batavia na eene reis van 115 dagen" at the end); "Waarschuwing tegen Diefstal" (p.119-120; "Rouveen 20 November 1832. (get.) C.L. Temminck" at the end); "Ter gedachtenis der terugkomst van mijne geliefde Vrouw Anna Elisabeth Leyendekker met het beurtschip van Amsterdam op Genemuiden op den 19 September 1833 (...)" (p.121; poem, "Uwe liefhebbende man (was get.) C.L. Temminck" at the end); a polemic poem featuring i.a. Hoynck van Papendrecht, John Jardine and "Heer Wolpert" (p.(122-125) and upside down at the other end 6p. with "Geslacht Register der Familie Temminck". Interesting manuscript, i.a. extensively on Temminck's stay in Indonesia, where he lost his first wife.