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58 - [GENEALOGY]. DES COUSTURES (Simon).
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[GENEALOGY]. DES COUSTURES (Simon). THE NOBILIAIRE OF THE GENERALITY OF LIMOGES, containing the names and genealogies of the gentlemen of the Elections of Limoges, Angoulême, the Magistracy of Angoulême, Saint-Jean-d’Angély, the Magistracy of Saint-Jean-d’Angély, Brive, Tulle, Bourganeuf, Saintes and Coignac. No place, 1770. Folio, in a stiff ivory-coloured vellum binding, unmarked ribbed spine (contemporary binding); [303 folios, first numbered then paginated:] (1) title folio, 42 folios, 65–70 folios, 59–64 ff., 51–58 ff., 43–50 ff., 127–134 ff., 77–86 ff., 71–76 ff., 88–[no f. 101]–108 ff., 121–126 ff., 115–120 ff., 109–114 ff., (1) title folio ‘Le Nobiliaire de l’élection d’Angoulême’, 135–[no folios 262, 265, 269, 277, 279 (the verso pages having been paginated)]–286 ff.; from fol. 286 onwards, the folios are paginated up to page 332 [pp. 320 to 323, which have been torn out, are MISSING], (1) blank folio with a piece pinned to it. The coat of arms on the first folio (‘Autier’) has been cut out and the gap restored; the coat of arms on folio 4 (‘Bazin’) has been cut out; a tear, with no missing section, has been restored on f. 210. MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY OF THE NOBILITY OF THE LIMOGES REGION, presented in neat handwriting, with family names calligraphically rendered in larger characters and accompanied by coats of arms drawn in pen, with conventional hatching indicating the colours. BEAUTIFUL HANDWRITTEN TITLE PAGE within a frame adorned with foliage, calligraphic ornaments and animals. This collection was compiled by Simon des COUSTURES (1609–1707), Lord of Bort, counsellor and lawyer to the King at the Presidial Court of Limoges, on the occasion of the verification of titles of nobility conducted in 1666 under the authority of d’Aguesseau, and subsequently completed in 1720 by his grandson, Jean-Pierre Roger des Essarts. This copy bears the notation ‘COPY MADE IN 1770’ on the orders of ‘Monseigneur Turgot, Intendant of the Generality of Limoges’, along with an alphabetical index of the gentry, their coats of arms and notes on the register of nobility. A printed sheet, pinned to the last blank page, bears a certificate of verification in the name of the Judge of Arms of France, with a fine copper-engraved watermark signed ‘J. Huyot’ and a facsimile of the signature ‘d’Hozier’. ¶ DES COUSTURES (Simon). “Nobiliaire de la généralité de Limoges”, published by the Reverend André Lecler. Limoges, Vve H. Ducourtieux, 1901, 503 pp. – Haute-Vienne Departmental Archives. Heraldic index. Catalogue of coats of arms appearing in Poncet’s armorial, Simon Descoutures’s nobiliaire, the Lecler collection and Nadaud’s nobiliaire, new typescript, 2014, introduction by Anne Gérardot, 2015.
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