Live veiling - Lot 738
[Belgium - Heraldry]
Collection of 52 coats of arms related to the Diocese of Tournai.
[Tournai, 17th c.]
€ 300 / 400
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Beschrijving lot
4to. Manuscript, [1 bl.]-8-[1 bl.] ff., on vellum, ca. 27,5 x 21 cm. In excellent condition.
Limp boards covered with a leaf from a large (ca. 43 x 28 cm) Latin manuscipt with sermons written in 2 col.
F. 1r-v blank; f. 2r nice floral border with blank central field (untitled); f. 3r-v 3 arms of Tournai bishops and of the Cathedral; ff. 4r-6r 25 coats of arms, some unfinished or copied after tombstones, of bishops of Tournai, i.a. "Michael de Warenghien", "Guilielmus de Ventadour", "Petrus de Foresta"; f. 6v blank; ff. 7r-9r 24 coats-of-arms, i.a. of "Guilielmus Fillastre", "Charles de Croy", "Petrus Quicke" and of "L’abbaije de Saint-Martin" (9r); ff. 9v-10v blank.