Album amicorum by Pierre Baullain, master of arms at Angers, and his successor, Jamain

Scanning from an original document. Founded towards the end of the sixteenth century by Italian squires, Angers' Academy of Horse Riding became famous until its abolition in 1792, attracting many foreign students, particularly German, Dutch, Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian. The album, where the students of Pierre Baullain, the fencing master of this institution, and his successor, M. Jamain, testify to such an influence. It contains 143 names, usually accompanied by coats of arms, a motto and a formula of dedication to the master of arms. These autograph inscriptions, all made in Angers, concern mainly the years 1613-1636. Two are dated to 1642, nine others, addressed to Mr. Jamain, from 1671-1672 (f. 29v, 95v, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 108v, 109). The signatory students are German, Dutch, Danish or Artesian (cf. FRIJHOFF, “Foreign students...,” 1977, p. 13-84). Content detail: - Title page: “Coat of arms of the pupils of Sr Baullain, master of arms, in Angers (1613-1676). - Volume of 123 leaflets, 27 November 1871”; - P. 1. Notice: "Curious album started in Angers on 6 December 1613 and in which Sr. M. Pierre Baullain, the fencing master, makes school children register their currencies, their coat of arms and their names. This register was continued until the year 1676. After this time there is more than a table year by year where the names of school children who have taken classes of the fencing masters who probably succeeded 3 coat of arms and dedication of Henricus von Stain, 9 February 1613; - f. 4 coat of arms and dedication of Georgius Nusch, of Rothenburg, on 9 February 1613; - f. 5 coat of arms and dedication of Carl von Brandt, 10 February 1613; - f. 6 coat of arms and dedication of Tycho Brahe, Danish, on 5 May 1613; - f. 7 coat of arms and dedication of Johannes Pröiten, 1613; - f. 8 coat of arms and dedication of Johan David Fischer, on 10 July 1613; - f. 8v coat of arms and dedication of Albertus Schaep, 11 June 1613; - f. 9 coat of arms (silver in the band of gules in charge of three roses) and dedication [lacunar], 11 August 1613; - f. 10 coat of arms and dedication of Georg Rudolf von der Sahla, 20 August 1613; - f. 11 coat of arms and dedication of Andreas Eyscher von Deindorf und Hirschstetten, on 10 September 1613; - f. 11v dedication of Esben Halveg, 5 May 1613; - f. 12 coat of arms and dedication of Gedeon Fischer, 18 September 1613; - f. 13 coat of arms and dedication of Joannes Ferdinandus and Johannes Erhardus Vöhlin von Frickenhausen,