'Album Amicorum Emanuelis de Meteren ['Demetrius'] Mercatoris Antuerpiani. anno m . d . lxxv', begun in the year when the Spaniards carried off his former Album from Antwerp
MS. Douce 68
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Title
'Album Amicorum Emanuelis de Meteren ['Demetrius'] Mercatoris Antuerpiani. anno m . d . lxxv', begun in the year when the Spaniards carried off his former Album from Antwerp
Shelfmark
MS. Douce 68
Summary
There are many signatures and poems, and some engravings and coloured pictures, the names being indexed at fol. 118c: the chief ones are (an asterisk implying that there is more than a mere signature and motto or engraving):
(fol. 103) Baudius, Dominicus, 1604
(fol. 60) *Camden, Will., 1584
(fol. 46) Clusius, Carolus, 1579
(fol. 40) Croy, Carolus, Philippus de, marquis of Haurech, 1578
(fol. 65) Dousa, Janus, the younger, 1585
(fol. 35) *Gallé, Philippus, 1577
(fol. 47) *Garth, Richard, 1578: with picture of London Bridge
(fol. 9) Goltzius, Hubertus, 1576
(fol. 7) *Heere, Lucas d*, 1576
(fol. 5v) *Hoefnagle, Georg, 1575
(fol. 81) Junius, Francis, 1595
(fol. 73) Lipsius, Justus, 1590
(fol. 83) Merula, Paulus, 1595
(fols. v, 1, 2, 31) Meteren, Emanuel van, 1575-7
(fol. 75) Molinaeus, Petrus, 1595
(fols. iii, 38) Mulcaster, Richard, 1577
(fol. 8a) Mylius, Arnoldus, 1576
(fol. 42)*Nassau, Guill. Louis, count of, 1578
(fol. 3v) *Ortelius, Abr., 1577
(fol. 55v) Ortelius, Joachimus, 1586
(fol. 86) Radcliffe, Edw., 1595
(fol. 3) *Rogers, Daniel, 1578
(fol. 100) Salterne, George, 1601
(fol. 80cv, cf. 43v) Smetius, Henricus, 1595?
(fol. 111v) Walker, Will., of Chiswick, 1609
Leaves have gone after fols. 10, 12, 14, 16, 22, 27, 49, 54, 57, 99 (sir Robert Cotton), 103.
Date
written in 1575-1609
Language
Latin
Dutch
Physical facet
On paper and parchment, imperfect, binding: contemporary stamped leather with gold tooling, worn
Physical extent
120 Leaves
Custodial history
Once deposited in the Dutch church in St. Austin Friars, London, according to Douce's note. A stamp of W. P. (?) conjoined is in the volume, which was bought by Douce at the John Henderson sale, 1786.
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Collection contents
'Album Amicorum Emanuelis de Meteren ['Demetrius'] Mercatoris Antuerpiani. anno m . d . lxxv', begun in the year when the Spaniards carried off his former Album from Antwerp
