Hahaha, I do not only have Catholic books in my collection, also non religious and even Protestant (personally I do not mind as an atheist...). I...
Via Twitter somebody told me the music scores are not chant but instrumental (violin?) scores and part of a Requiem (Mass for the dead), because...
This post is about a book I bought almost 20 years ago in the Czech Republic and was my first book with so called disjecta membra (recycled vellum...
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Yes, you confuse us....
This is called an album amicorum (friendship book), written in Dutch and French.
I saw this photo after i read this post [ATTACH]
Sure I will!
We have a similar organization here in the Netherlands with the rather not so original name PAN (Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands)...
In my opinion it too good to be true that it is that old. I was thinking about African bracelet money perhaps?
A friend of me found a relative heavy object with his metal detector in the Netherlands. For me it seems some kind of bracelet, made from an...
I think I have found him: Monseigneur Petrus Codde the sixth Archbishop of Utrecht. I even have found a picture of him in one of my other books...
Thank you all! We are getting closer. now I wonder who M (Maitre/Monsieur) Codde (?) was :D.
So this was a birthday present from a German speaking person to Elizabeth. ??? E Feizal (?)
Thank you for your addition, I have changed it in my text.
The writing seems Kurrent (old German) to me.
I am currently researching a book in two volumes in my collection. The title is "Historia episcopatuum foederati belgii, utpote metropolitani...
@Rabe Please keep us updated, because it is a very interesting item!
Did you ever contact the Eugene Marais Foundation? Because if this is real, it can be quite a find. http://eugene-marais.org.za/
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