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65/89
| Country of Location: |
Country of Location
Switzerland
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| Location: |
Location Porrentruy |
| Library / Collection: |
Library / Collection
Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne
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| Shelfmark: | Shelfmark A3714 |
| Manuscript Title: | Manuscript Title Armorial of the Vest-Grandvillers family |
| Caption: | Caption Paper · 282 pp. · 15 x 11 cm · Freiburg im Breisgau, Porrentruy · 1620-1880 |
| Language: |
Language
German, Latin, French |
| Manuscript Summary: | Manuscript Summary Begun in 1620 by Jean Henri Vest when he was living in Freiburg-im-Breisgau (p. 1), this collection was originally conceived as a Stammbuch (family book) recording the genealogy and the marriages of the Vest family, with corresponding coats of arms. The enlarged coat of arms granted honorifically by Emperor Rudolph II in 1582 to the Count Palatine Jean Vest, father of Jean Henri, is repeated many times. Humbert Henri Vest brought the collection to Porrentruy in 1667; after the marriage of his daughter, Marie Hélène Vest (1693-1761), the last member of the local branch of the family, to Fréderic François Ignace Xavier Grandvillers (1690-1727) in 1716, the collection passed into the hands of the Grandvillers family. The Grandvillers added their coat of arms and those of related families (pp. 51-85 and 138-139, etc.). Born and died in Delémont, the lawyer Conrad de Grandvillers (1813-1880), great-great-grandson of Marie Hélène Vest, and the last to carry the name, was the last of his family to possess this volume, as the signature “de Grandvillers avocat” indicates (p. 1). Perhaps he is the one who, in the nineteenth century, added some other coats of arms without a family connection (pp. 277-281), possibly with the idea of transforming the volume into a liber amicorum or, more broadly, into an Armorial jurassien, as stated in the title added on the binding, probably in the nineteenth century. The fact that some coats-of-arms connected to the Vest family have been cut out and glued on other pages (pp. 89-95) suggests a major working of the volume at an unknown date. |
| Standard description: | Standard description Nicolas Vernot, docteur en Histoire de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), 2023.Show standard description |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | DOI (Digital Object Identifier 10.5076/e-codices-bcj-A3714 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-bcj-A3714) |
| Permanent link: | Permanent link https://e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bcj/A3714 |
| IIIF Manifest URL: |
IIIF Manifest URL
https://e-codices.ch/metadata/iiif/bcj-A3714/manifest.json
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| How to quote: | How to quote Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, A3714: Armorial of the Vest-Grandvillers family (https://e-codices.ch/en/list/one/bcj/A3714). |
| Online Since: | Online Since 09/06/2023 |
| Rights: | Rights Images:
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| Document Type: |
Document Type
Manuscript |
| Century: |
Century
17th century, 18th century, 19th century |
| Decoration: |
Decoration
Full Page, Fully Painted |
| Binding: |
Binding
19th century |
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