[Registry: 31.5 x 21 cm.; Obituary: 37.5 x 22.5 cm]. Manuscript (including the separate registry) written in brown ink using a fine and neat 18th-century cursive script (with later additions on pp. 200 and 203-206 in a fine and neat mid-19th-century script). With 9 expertly coloured coats of arms, including 5 highlighted in gold: 5 half-page (19 x 27 cm), 2 on slightly larger leaves (26.5 x 27 cm), 1 on a smaller, quarter-page leaf (24 x 16 cm) and 1 on a bigger, loose leaf (34 x 23.5 cm), which has been separately inserted between pp. 79 and 80. 7 out of 9 illustrations contain 2 family crests, combined on the occasion of a marriage into 1 coat of arms, the other 2 are coats of arms belonging to a single family. Below all coats of arms, a banderole with the names of the families in question can be found. 5 of the coats of arms are topped with a helmet, while the other 4 are crowned. Contemporary vellum over boards, with 2 pairs of green cloth ties and blue and red sprinkled edges. The registry is sewn, but has never been bound.
"Extensive genealogy of the Dutch Roosterman family, giving an extensive overview of each member of all different branches of this family from the second half of the 16th century until the end of the 18th-century and it even includes information for the first half of the 19th century in some additional notes at the end of the manuscript. The whole is enriched with 9 beautifully illustrated and hand coloured coats of arms, including 5 highlighted in gold.
It also includes a separately inserted registry with an alphabetized list of all different surnames of all members who in some way belong to the Roosterman family. This includes names of many prominent Dutch families, such as: Schoël, Pauw, Van den Sande, Van Bellinchove, Bekker (or Becker), Van Mansveld, Elsevier, Van Westreenen, Van Bronkhorst, and Van Heemskerk.
Many prominent members of Dutch society during the 17th and 18th centuries, mainly in Haarlem, Rotterdam and Utrecht, belonged to, sometimes by marriage, to the Roosterman family; from successful and wealthy cloth merchants to municipal officers called ""schepenen"".
The most prominent and famous member of the Roosterman family was Tieleman Roosterman, who had his portrait painted in 1634 by the famous, Dutch Golden Age master painter Frans Hals (ca. 1582-1666). He also painted a companion portrait of Roosterman's wife Catherina Brugman in the same year. The 6th, and incidentally one of the more elaborately decorated and highlighted coats of arms in the present manuscript was made on the occasion of the marriage of Tieleman Roosterman's grandparents, Tieleman Roosterman and Alida (or Aletta) Pauw in or before 1568. Fol. 4 in the manuscript tells us that Tieleman Roosterman (1594-1673) married Catharina (1611-1677) in 1631 and together had 10 children, about whom more information can be found on fol. 9. Tieleman was a cloth merchant and he and his family resided in Haarlem. He was a good friend of cloth merchant Willem van Heythuysen (ca. 1590-1650) - who had also been the subject of one of Frans Hals' paintings - and Roosterman was the first regent of the still existing Hofje van Willem Heythuysen in Haarlem, but built outside the city walls.
The obituary was written about Albertus Alberthoma (1687-1758), who was a preacher in and around Groningen (mentioned in the genealogy on p. (or fol.) 104), by his son-in-law Johannes Petrus Driessen also in the name of Albertus' son Albertus Johannes. It was sent as a letter - complete with a wax seal - to their nephew, the mayor of Utrecht P. van Mansveld.
All paper used in the manuscript and 2 additional documents is 18th-century Dutch paper. The majority of the paper used in the main manuscript is watermarked in one half of the sheet with a fleur-de-lis within a crowned coat of arms and countermarked ""VI""/""IV"" or ""I VILLEDARY"", made by a papermaker of French origin, Jean Villedary, and his successors in Hattem, Gelderland, The Netherlands. The paper used for the registry is from Amsterdam, showing the city's coat of arms in one half of the sheet, while the paper of the obituary was made in North Holland (Wormerveer) and is watermarked ""Van der Ley"".
Binding somewhat soiled, cloth ties slightly worn but still intact. Slight foxing throughout and with some offsetting of the plates. The outer edges of the outer pages of the additional manuscript registry are slightly soiled. The obituary is printed on a separate, black-bordered leaf and contains some manuscript additions on the first, second and last page: mainly an address since the obituary was folded and sent as a letter. The last page contains an intact, black wax seal, and the opposite edge of the page is slightly damaged from removing the seal to open the letter. This remarkable genealogical manuscript, with the additional manuscript registry and printed obituary, is in very good condition.
[6 blank], [8], [1 blank], 206, [5 blank] pp. With the registry: 11, [1 blank] pp. and the printed obituary on a single folded leaf: [2], [1 blank], [1] pp."
Images of two inserts (registry with an alphabetized list and obituary) are included at the end of the manuscript.
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