76/1860 [Signatures]. "Handschriften van beroemde personen. Van Luther Prins Maurits enz. enz." Album with 242 tipped-in cut-out signatures (occas. w. a sm. part of the original letter or manuscript document preserved), 16th-19th cent., mostly w. 3 signatures tipped onto one leaf, rebound in 20th cent. hcalf volume in the original alphabetical order with the orig. divisional leaves (per letter of the alphabet).

- Some of the original contents absent (i.a. the Luther signature is lacking).

= Rich album, containing signatures of famous men and women from the world of art, science, theology and humanities, i.a. C. Ploos van Amstel, Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius (author), Charles de Boisot (gouvernor of Vlissingen), Simon van Beaumont (secretary of the Staten van Holland), Louis de Boisot (admiral of Zeeland), Willem van Braam (one of the heroes of the battle of the Doggersbank), J. Buys (artist), Alexander Bentinck (one of the signatories of the Unie van Utrecht), Jan van der Bildt (glazier), Dominicus Baudius (poet and historian), Johannes Le Francq van Berkhey (painter, scientist, physician and poet), Willem Bilderdijk (author), Sir Charles Bagot (English ambassador to the Netherlands), King Charles I (?), Petrus Campen (physician, anatomist), Carolus Clusius (botanist), Philippus Cluverius (geographer), Jacob Cats (author), J. Casaubon (French classicist), Godert van der Capellen (Gouvernor General of the Dutch Indies), Janus Dousa filius (poet), Janus Dousa Nordovix (poet), Floris Comte de Culebourg [= Floris van Pallandt], Petrus Forestus (physician), Johannes Hevelius (German-Polish astronomer), Festus Hommius (theologian and bible translator), P.C. Hooft (author and historian), Nicolaas Heinsius (poet), T. Hemsterhuis (philologist), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (mathematician, philosopher, physicist etc.), J.C. Lavater (physiognomist and poet), Philippus Marnixius Sancto Aldegondius [Marnix van St. Aldegonde] (diplomat, poet, counsillor to William of Orange), Philippus Melanchton (humanist theologian), Paulus Merula (classicist, historian, lawyer and geographher), Martinus van Marum (physicist, scientist, inventor), Amalia d'Orange (Amalia van Solms, wife of Frederik Hendrik of Orange), Elisabeth Post (author and poet), J.A. Bloys van Treslong (marine-officer, who fought in the naval battle of Camperduin), Carel Vosmaer (author), Reinier Vinkeles (artist and engraver), J.E. Voet (poet), J.W. Vrolik (physician), Bonaventura Vulcanus (humanist and lecturer of Greek) and Johan de Witt (statesman). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.