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ROBIN Jan
Recueil d'armoyries de plusieurs noblesses de Bretaigne... Rennes, 1641.
Manuscript in-4 in brown ink, red ink and gouache, on laid paper, 20 x 26cm, [261] ff, contemporary binding in fawn basane, spine formerly covered with grey cloth.
Beautiful handwritten armorial entirely in colors with 6 large full-page coats of arms, a wash coat of arms on the title and 970 coats of arms at a rate of four per page, with the heraldic description and the name of the family with a few very rare exceptions.
The title indicates "suivant les lettres, a.b.c." but the volume goes up to the letter j. There is no indication that a second volume was actually made.
This manuscript was executed by Jan Robin, "illuminator of coats of arms", who had produced a few years earlier the three known copies of the Recueil des armoyries de plusieurs seigneurs et noblesses de Bretaigne suivant l'ordre alphabétique... preserved one in the Méjanes library, the other in the municipal library of Rennes and the last one in the Breton library of the counts of Palys dispersed in Paris in 2014.
Of smaller format, this one takes up exactly the same drawings. It includes some old posterior annotations by another hand.
It was probably executed for Sébastien, 2nd marquis de Rosmadeuc (died in 1653) whose genealogical pennon appears at the head (f. 7) before that of his eldest son Sébastien, baron de la Hunaudaye (died in 1699). These superb coats of arms are preceded by those of the Duke of Mercœur (1558-1602), who had allowed his uncle in the style of Brittany, René de Tournemine, to remain in possession of his land of La Hunaudaye, and of his ally in the League, Louis de Gonzague, Duke of Nevers (1539-1595). Finally, the last of the five pennons is that of the cousin of the marquis of Rosmadeuc, Jean d'Avaugour, sieur de Saint-Laurent (1547-1617), lieutenant general of the king's armies in Brittany, whose arms open the armorial proper.
At the end of the 19th century, it belonged to Abbé Amédée-Aimé Guillotin de Corson, historian of Brittany, who presented it on November 18, 1883 during a session of the Société archéologique du département d'Ille-et-Vilaine, of which he was president.
Exceptional quality heraldic manuscript entirely painted. First few leaves slightly dislodged and chipped. Binding solid but rubbed.
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