[MANUSCRIPT WITH ENGRAVINGS - HERALDRY]. [SMALLEGANGE, Mattheus].

[Armorial of the Netherlands].[Amsterdam?], ca. 1736. Folio (34 x 22 cm). An armorial of the (mostly northern) Low Countries, with about 1451 engraved and 18 manuscript coats of arms pasted onto (or in the case of the manuscript arms drawn on) pre-printed engraved forms (each leaf with 25 spaces numbered 1-25). The facing pages, neatly written in brown ink, list the names of the families whose arms are shown, keyed to the pre-printed numbers. The engraved arms in the first part (each 21 x 20 mm) are taken from the ca. 1700 appendix to Smallegange's 1696 Nieuwe Cronyk van Zeeland, and that part has additional manuscript notes copied from the same source. The engraved arms in the second part (each 24 x 21 mm) have not been identified. Contemporary red roan (sheepskin), marbled sides, green cloth ties.

      . (11 blank), (88), (8 blank), (102), (5 blank) pp. including paste-downs.An armorial of the Netherlands, with about 1469 small coats of arms (about 1451 engraved and 18 manuscript), identified on the facing pages, sometimes with informative notes. It is divided into two parts, each with its arms arranged alphabetically by family name. Part 1, with about 794 engraved coats of arms from the heraldic appendix to Smallegange's Cronyk and 2 more added in manuscript, covers Zeeland nobility and includes not only the family names, but also notes copied from Smallegange (the note to "Blois" even copying his reference to "my" Chronyk van Zeeland). Part 2 contains about 657 engraved and 16 manuscript coats of arms, slightly larger than those in the first part and covering Low Countries nobility from various provinces, mostly the northern provinces that formed the Dutch Republic (approximately the modern Netherlands). We have not identified the source of the engravings in part 2. Occasionally part 2 includes the arms of a Zeeland family also included in part 1, but the arms then differ in execution (as with Smallegange's own arms) and sometimes in content. The arms of Soutelande (Zoutelande), for example, show two different marks of cadence: a label (eldest son, before the father's death) in part 1 and a crescent (second son, before or after the father's death) in part 2, though the label became a fixed element and the municipality of Zouteland adopted the arms with label in 1817. We have not had the opportunity to compare the arms of Holland families in part 2 with those in Smallegange's 1677 Wapenen de Steden en Oud-Adelyke Geslachten in ... Holland en West-Vriesland or those of Utrecht families with those in the 1671 Wydberoemde Binnen-Stichtsche Wapenen . The manuscript arms (some added at the end in a different ink) are: in part 1, Honigs (added: Rethaan Macare); and in part 2, Van Banchem, Boreel, Bors van Wareren, Hop and Rendorp (added: Van Bambeek, Van Bueren, Van Kretschmar, Kraijenhoff, Van Maanen, Van der Meersch, De Mey van Streefkerk, De Man, Muller, Pancras and Tulp). A calligraphic inscription under the front paste-down may provide clues to the compiler of the armorial, but is difficult to read.The paper, including the endpapers, is watermarked: PS = arms (chevron with 2 stars above and a sheaf of wheat below). These arms were used with the PS countermark by Paulus Sebille in 1736 (Voorn, Noord-Holland 161 and Gaudriault 199 & p. 307, without the heart or the zig-zag pattern that appear in the base of the present version), and with other initials or names by Daniel Sebille & Wend 1762-1763; Sebille, Van Ketel & Wassenbergh in 1776; and with initials replacing bearings by H.C. Wend & Zoonen in 1788. Paul Sebille baptised 7 children in the Walloon Reformed church in Amsterdam from 1719 to 1735, and his wife Susanne Bernard witnessed baptisms alone from 1737 to 1756, so he may have died ca. 1736.With the blind-embossed arms of Charles Philippe Louis van Kinschot (1806-1862) or his grandson of the same name (1875-1936) on the first leaf and the latter's 1903 pencilled note criticising the depiction of the Kinschot arms in part 2 (the fields normally bearing bees are blank). In very good condition, with the manuscript leaf numbers and sometimes also the letter of the alphabet heading the list of family names shaved. The sewing is loose and the binding worn and tattered. A manuscript and engraved armorial of the Netherlands, with about 1469 coats of arms..