76/1859 [Signatures]. "Handschriften van beroemde personen". Collection of 760 signatures, mostly on paper, partly on vellum, 16th-19th cent., all cut out and laid down on recto and verso of 104 modern stiff paper mounts, occas. w. a sm. part of the original letter or manuscript document preserved, kept in custom made dropback box w. "Handschriften van beroemde personen" stamped on spine.

= Rich collection, containing signatures by i.a. Erasmus of Rotterdam, "Erasmus Rot." (1466-1536, theologian, humanist and philosopher), Willem van Oranje-Nassau, "Willem de Nassau" (1533-1584, founder of the Orange-Nassau branch, also known as William the Silent), Lodewijk van Nassau, "Louis de Nassau" (2x) (1538-1574, secretary of William the Silent), King Charles I, "Charles" (1606-1649, King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until his execution in 1649)), King William III, "William R." (1650-1702, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702), Queen Anne, "Anne R." (1635-1714, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland between 1702-1714), Margareta duchess of Parma, "Margarita" (1522-1586, governor of The Netherlands), Willem Frederik van Nassau-Dietz(?), "Wilhelm Friedrich [...] Nassau"[?] (1613-1664, Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe), King Friedrich I of Prussia, "Friedrich R" (1657-1713, King of Prussia from 1701-1713), Friedrich II the Great, "Friedrich" (1712-1786, Frederick the Great, King in (and later) King of Prussia between 1740-1772/ 1772-1786), Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany, "Frederick Commander in Chief" (1763-1828, commander-in-chief during the Napoleonic Wars), Henry IV, King of France, "Henry" (1553-1610, King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610), Marie Louise I Duchess of Parma, Empress of the French, "Marie Louise" (1791-1847, second wife of Napoleon; sl. weak signature on vellum), Prince Frederik of The Netherlands, "Frederik" (1797-1881, Inspector General of the Dutch Army), Princess Sophie "Sophie prinses der Nederlanden" (1824-1897, last surviving child of King William II of the Netherlands and of his wife Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia), Jan III Sobieski, "Joannes Rex" (1629-1696, King of Poland), Charles IV, King of Spain, "Charles.S" (1748-1819, abdicated as King of Spain in 1808), Jacob Cats, "Jacobus Catzius" and "J. Cats" (2x, 1577-1666, poet), J.C. Ludeman (author), J. Wtenbogaerdt (historian), Hieronymus Nunes de Costa (2x, trader in diamonds, sugar and tobacco), F. Fagel (1740-1733, lawyer and member of the Staten Generaal), D. Ruhnkenius (classicist), Anna Maria van Schurman "AM de Schurman" (painter, engraver, poet and scholar), Willem Bartel van der Kooi (Frisian painter), Petrus Campen (physician), J.C. Boëtius (painter), Hendrik Spilman (painter), Philips Wouwerman, "Wouwerman" (1619-1668, painter), Janus Dousa filius (poet and philologist), Pieter 't Hoen (patriot journalist, poet and politician), H.K. Poot, "H.K. Poot" (1689-1733, poet), Arnold Hoogvliet (poet), Johannes Voet (jurist), Gerard Baron van Wassenaer heer van Alkemade (literary student, 17th cent.), Johan de Witt, "Johan de Witt 1665" (1625-1672, statesman, lynched (and partly eaten) by a mob of dissatisfied citizens in 1672), Onno Zwier van Haren (politician, author and poet), J.J. Vitrarius (professor of law), Hugo Blotius (scholar and first librarian of the Austrian Imperial Library), Hendrik van der Capellen (mayor of Zutphen in 1620), Jean Theodore Royer "Constanter" (1737-1807, art collector and one of the greatest connoisseurs of Chinese art and history of his time), Philips Doubleth (1633-1707, receiver general of the Dutch Republic), Jan Luyken (1649-1712, engraver and poet), Paulus Merula (1558-1707, legal scholar, classicist, historian and librarian), Theodorus Beza (1519-1605, calvinist theologian), Franciscus Junius (1591-1677, collector of ancient manuscripts and editor of classical texts), Walraven IV van Brederode (1596/97-1620, anti Remonstrant, represented the Ridderschap at the Synod of Dordrecht), Johannes Cloppenburgh (1592-1652, Dutch Calvinist theologian) and Jacobus Trigland (1583-1654, reformed theologian, professor at Leyden University).