2469 - 2553 MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS
- Sm. modern annot. on first free endpaper. Joints starting; covers worn/ sl. dam.
= One of the manuscript copies that circulated in the 18th century, before the publication of the work ''Staatkundige Geschriften'' (1784-1785). This manuscript contains a political treatise by Simon van Slingelandt, who was secretary of the council of state for 45 years and afterwards grand pensionary of Holland.
= Includes notary and district court documents concerning the Noyons, Gieliam/ Gielen and Van Bergen families in Den Bosch, i.a. the testament of Maria Johanna Gieliam (1850) and Everardus Martinus Noijons (1853), 2 court decisions on appointing legal guardians of underaged children in both families (1865, 1874), a mortgage request for the payment of outstanding debts (1866) and the sale of property between two of Everardus' children (1881); as well as notary deeds concerning the sale of property on the Westermarkt in Amsterdam (1823), Bunde and Meerssen (1853) and Amby near Maastricht (1841).
ADDED 9 others, i.a. 4 printed/ manuscript Amsterdam municipal tax quittances (1792-1832) and 4 printed/ manuscript payment receipts from the Associatie Cassa to the Scheurleer & Zoonen bank in the Hague (1841).
= Contains i.a. 13 deeds of transport, of i.a. a house on the Oude Gracht in Alkmaar (1808), "de helfte twee ledige erven of stukken grods, gelegen binnen dese stadt [Weesp] aan de westzijde van de Nieuwe of Agtergragt" (1769) and a field of arable land in Winkel (1758); a deed of admission as notary of Aris van der Mieden (Alkmaar, 1684) and an inventory of the estate and legacy of Maartje Cornelis Leeuws (Winkel, 1782).
- Occas. rubbed/ stained/ faded; some lvs. waterstained.
- Occas. rubbed/ stained/ faded.
- 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. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
- A few lvs. w. (sm.) holes; lvs. darkened/ stained/ fingersoiled (mostly in margins). Leather pouch sl. worn.
AND 1 other similar, smaller sized (6x5 cm.), with plain wooden covers.
- Occas. sl. stained; two pinholes on both ends. Covers sl. rubbed.
- Sl. stained; a few sl. dam./ w. sm. tears.
- One typescript attendance list and announcement list w. annots.; all lvs. (sl.) yellowed.
= Signatories include E.P. Hubble, Th. von Kármán, J.M. Burgers, H.C. van de Hulst, J.H. Oort, A. Blaauw, O. Laporte, H.W. Liepmann, G.K. Batchelor, D.W. Sciama, L. Biermann and H. Bondi.
Attendance sheet, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, London, September 1948, 2 typescript lvs. listing council members' names and addresses, 2 lvs. w. AUTOGRAPH participants' names (pen and ink/ ballpoint).
= Signatories include J. Pérès, Th. von Kármán, S.P. Timoshenko, C.B. Biezenmo, J.M. Burgers and H. Favre.
Attendance sheets, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Istanbul, August 21-26, 1952, 6 typescript lvs. w. AUTOGRAPH participants' names (pencil/ pen and ink/ ballpoint).
= Signatories include J.C. Hunsaker, S.P. Timoshenko, R. von Mises, F.H. van den Dungen, C.B. Biezenmo, J.M. Burgers and H. Favre.
AND 3 other members' attendants' lists, i.a. for the "International symposium on nonlinear vibrations", Île de Porquerolles, 18-22 September 1951 (6 (yellowed) (facs.) typescript lvs., 1 leaf w. annots.). - ADDED: 1 postcard, w. postmark dated "14 Ap[ril] 4[8?]", by "R.S." (R.V. Southwell?) addressed to Prof. J.M. Burgers.
- Spine-ends dam.; binding sl. worn. Contents fine.
= Very early 17th century Dutch translation of the Quran based on the German translation by Solomon Schwigger. The German translation was first published in 1616. The first edition of the first Dutch translation was published in 1641 by Barent Adriaensz Berentsma. Our manuscript differs on some points textually from the German, as well as the Dutch translation. It is not clear whether this is a pre-1641 Dutch translation after the German edition or a transcript of the Dutch translation of 1641. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Wax seals sl. dam.; occas. w. oblique cuts throughout/ sl. soiled.
= Interesting collection mainly with deeds of transport for property and land around Hillegersberg, Kleinpolder, Rubroek and Spijkenisse. I.a. on Huis de Bogt van Guinee, Bergsche Hoek and Crooswijk.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIII.
- Vaguely waterst.
= "Half aandeel in de hypothecaire vordering" concerning the plantations Perou, Libanon, La Nouvelle Esperance and Meyzorg. With 2 coupons.
- Covers rubbed.
= Interesting travel journal about a journey from 's Hertogenbosch to Maastricht ("Na twintig uuren op een alleronaangenaamste en moeilijke wijse door elkander geschud en gehotst te hebben zijn wij alhier om 8 uuren desenavond aangekoomen"), Liège, Aachen, Cologne ("Vrolijk en opgeruimd keerde wij naar ons Logement terug.."), Xanten, Koblenz, Metz, Bingen, Strassbourg, Basel and Bern.
- A few oblique cuts.
= Bailiff of Jaarsveld Steven van Esvelt declares the mortgage of Harmen Jansen Vuyck on the Hofstede Jaarsveld. Vuyck owes an amount of fl.400 to Cornelis Adriaansen Cramer.
AND 1 other: a receipt of home sale of a house in the Molenstraat (possibly The Hague) bought by Cornelis van Aerentsbergen from Matheus Claes Fock (pen and black ink on paper, 1663).