Live auction - Lot 114

[Genealogy - Ghent]

"Recueil de septante cinq généalogies de différentes familles de Flandres, de Haynaut et d'Artois. Vient d'un manuscrit de l'ancienne abbaye de St. Pierre lès Gand".

[Ghent?, early 19th c.]

€ 800 / 1.000

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Sm. 4to, 21 x 16 cm: [6]-34 pp., paper, French, brown and red ink (light browning, some sm. stains, cut a bit short shaving some text at the bottom of a few pages).

Contemp. half green morocco, pink paper boards with ms. paper title-label on upper side, gilt-filleted spine with raised bands and red leather title-label (rubbed, 1st ff. starting to loose).

Interesting collection of genealogical tables concerning a.o. the families Vereycken, de La Porte, de Saint-Amand, de Gottignies, van Eyken, de Jauche, de Boulogne, Morel de Tangry, van Houte, des Planques dit Bethune, de Carondelet, de Lille, de Hemricourt, de Schetz, Richardot, de La Hamaide dit d'Anvaing, Adornes, etc. Long note ("copiée d'un vieux manuscrit") on fold. f. about the "Batards de Bourgogne"; La Kethulle genealogy ill. with 7 coats of arms enhanced with watercolour. A note at the last p. specifies that the genealogies are "copiées d'un manuscrit qui est es mains de M. de Crombrughe d'Iseghem, qu'il a eu a l'abbaye de St Pierre les Gand". Following the suppression of the abbey by the French Republic in 1796, the library was emptied in 1798 and finally moved to the Ghent University. Table of family names.

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Lot 114

"Recueil de septante cinq généalogies de différentes familles de Flandres, de Haynaut et d'Artois. Vient d'un manuscrit de l'ancienne abbaye de St. Pierre lès Gand".

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