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Collection name. Balfour's Album Amicorum

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Album amicorum of Sir Michael Balfour, later Lord Balfour of Burleigh.

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Identifier: MS.16000
Scope and Contents The entries include autographs by members of the British and Danish royal families, continental statesmen, nobility and gentry, and Scots travelling or studying in Europe. Many are illustrated with coats of arms. There are a number of paintings depicting personages and scenes, mostly in Padua and Venice; other more imaginative scenes such as a highway robbery and a street battle at night; and some coloured engravings by Ralph Sadeler, Adrien Collaert and others have been inserted....
Dates: 1596-1610.