"Vicomtes de Bruxelles".

8vo: title (post.) on laid paper, [24] ff. with coats of arms on vellum, painted with gouache, gold and silver, each accompanied with genealogical notes by a contemp. hand and some by 2 later hands, interleaved with laid paper, some blank vellum ff. (occ. sm. stains and/or sl. soiling, some ff. sl. waving).

Contemp. red velvet with silver ornaments on sides: two central oval armorial plates, four fan-shaped corner pieces and two clasps with chiselled floral decoration (velvet ± used, 1 corner piece and 1 clasp-plate missing on lower side, straps missing, light dent on upper arm. plate, bookblock sl. loosening from spine, hinges reinforced). Inside well preserved.

Nice collection of 24 large coats of arms, mostly arms of alliance of Viscounts of Brussels, expertly executed. It includes a front. with Damant's coat of arms, followed by arms arranged in chronological order, from Rogier van Leefdael (14th c.) to Filips Adriaan van Varick (early 18th c.). The geneal. notes in Dutch are, here and there, supplemented by information in French taken from Azevedo's "Généalogie la famille de Coloma" (1777).
Prov. Family Damant, descendant of Nicholas Damant (c. 1531-1616), Chancellor of Brabant and Keeper of the Seals of Philip II of Spain, who bought the viscountcy in 1606 (ref. Biogr. nat. IV:647-649). The upper supralibros reproduces his arms, the lower one reproduces his arms of alliance with Barbe de Brandt (see their notice in our manuscript).