LANNION (Pierre de) Recueil d "armoiries de toutes... Lot 13

[LANNION (Pierre de) Recueil d "armoiries de toutes les provinces de France & des Royaumes circonvoisins. Collected & written in this volume. By Messire Pierre de Lannion, Baron of Vieus-chastel etc. Knight of the Order of the King, Governor for his Majesty of the cities & castles of Vennes & Auray, & of the destruction of the aforementioned jurisdictions, ports, harbors, coasts, meuttes & roadsteads of Morbihan and Quiberon in dependences guard coast & cappitaine of the Bans & arrieres Bans of the Eveschez of Vennes and Treguier. Begun the year one thousand six hundred and twenty two. Armorial of Pierre de Lannion In French, illuminated and watercolored manuscript on paper France, 1622 and following years. Large folio, 353 pages, cursive writing in brown ink, one hand in general, some corrections, erasures or annotations added by other hands, text on two columns lined with interior and exterior columns to accommodate the numerous painted coats of arms of the families (some rare shields remained in white). Full parchment speckled with black, spine with 7 nerves (plates rubbed, some missing or depigmented). Good general condition of the binding. Some interior spotting (especially on the first 30 leaves) and old restorations. Size of the leaves : 290 x 450 mm Dimensions of the binding : 305 x 465 mm Provenance Ex-libris vignette of the Count of Lannion, pasted on the upper back cover. This work was conceived and realized a priori by the care of one person : Pierre I de Lannion (1582-1633), count of Lannion, baron of Vieux-Chastel (Vieuxchâtel), lord of Cruguil, of Goasnou, of Kerbouric, of Kerougant, of La Porte-Verte, of Poulhaguen, of Quélen, of Cosquer, of Quelenec and of La Noë-Verte. He married Renée d "Arradon. His coat of arms with crest is painted on the frontispiece: Argent, with three martlets of sand, on a chief of gules charged with three quintets of the field. The tastes of genealogist of Pierre de Lannion were highlighted by Abbot Bourdeant about Father du Paz ("Le père du Paz et l'histoire généalogique de Bretagne" in Mémoire de la Société d "Histoire et d "Archéologie de Bretagne, 1921, t. II, p. 125- 148). After the death of the Dominican, Lannion acquired his manuscripts and added them to the rich collection of his castle of Kerrand. The present collection of coats of arms is ambitious and is organized alphabetically, at least by letter and then in a less systematic way within the same letter. The coats of arms are painted and arranged in the inner and outer columns. The families are identified, sometimes with their coat of arms and some historical comments. Of course, the Breton families are well represented. Further research will make it possible to cross-reference this important collection with other genealogical or heraldic manuscripts associated with Pierre de Lannion.