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- 1471 (Creation)
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1 leaf of parchment, 1 p.
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Biographical history
Van de Weyer served as Belgium’s Prime minister from July 1845 to March 1846. However, he lived for the majority of his life in London (17 Fitzroy Square, 50 Portland Place) and Windsor (New Lodge), and held the office of Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James’s under Queen Victoria, an ambassadorial role. Van de Weyer was close friends with Lord Palmerston. In addition to being a member of the Roxburghe Club, Van de Weyer was a founder member of the Philobiblon Society, the Vice President of the London Library, a Member of the Société des Bibliophiles de Belgique and the Head of the Royal Library of Brussels.
Pierre Henri Laurent said of Van de Weyer: 'His manners, taste, and savoir-faire brought him into the vital center of the intellectual, diplomatic, and financial communities. His home became the meeting place of writers, artists, and scientists’.
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Parchment document in French signed by Charles the Bold. The document is cropped along the right-hand edge and therefore some of the text is missing.
Transcription by Prof. Anne Cobby:
[Je] Conte Charles duc de Bour[gog]ne et de Brabant conte de Flandres vous co<…>
avoir Receu de Nicholas de gondenas n(ost)re argenteur La somme de <...>
Mil livres de quarante gros de n(ost)re [?] de Flandres la livre <...>
par n(ost)re commandement et ordonnance Il Nous a baillie et del<...>
compartant ey nos mains ou mois de Fevrier derenierment passe e<...>
et [put'?] mois de mars y donc en faire n(ost)re plaisir en rerta[..?]><...>
dont ne voulous Icy autre declaracion estre faute . De la qu[..?]<...>
de [?] [?] Nous sommes contens Escript sou[..?] n(ost)re no<...>
xxiiiie jour d[..?] mois de mars Lan mil CCCC soixante unze an<...>
pasques
Later inscriptions added:
Inscriptions in later hands have been added to the document, including "Anno 1803"; "Finis L'ande le 3 mars 1803" and "Louis vanden Bogaerde".
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Language of material
- Middle French
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10.1 x 23.1 cm
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Note
The document is sewn onto a guard leaf in the album.