"Wapenboeck inhoudende eenige oude epitaphen, sepulturen, vensters ende begravenisse vanden edeldom soo met hunne wapenen quarteieren als andersins gevonden in diverse kercken".

Folio: [2]-218-[4] pp., brown ink on laid paper, in Dutch, French and Latin, coats of arms drawn with ink and mostly watercoloured (occ. sm. stains).

Contemp. overlapping vellum, ms. title and shelf-mark label on spine (head-endcap torn, some soiling). Good copy.

Armorial signed by a member of the Seven Lineages or Seven Patrician families of Brussels who was Captain in the "Garde bourgeoise" (citizen militia) in 1669-1670. His large coat of arms (uncoloured) are reproduced on title. Ill. with numerous coats of arms (some unachieved) and transcriptions of epigraphic inscriptions from tombs, monuments, stained glasses, obits etc. from various churches in Brussels and Leuven, a.o. Ms. table of names at the end.
Prov. Countess Anne Thérèse Philippine d'Yve (1738-1814), Brussels political activist, pamphlet writer and a participant in the Brabant Revolution of 1789 (armorial bookpl.). - Eugène van Havre (1805-1854; armorial bookpl. and dry stamp on title).