Grant of nobility
Subtitle: to Alois Sebastiani von Ezastalowitz
Published: 1810
Language: ger
Other titles: German calligraphic manuscript
Notes: The text is written in German in a professional fraktur hand, flourished, some lines larger and decorated, within page borders made up of pen flourishes. The title-page border incorporates emblems and arms of the monarch.

The emperor's signature is on f. 7v. Another signature, dated 21 Jan. 1817 is on f. 8r.

F. 5r contains a full-page achievement of arms, painted in tempera and gold.

Bound in contemporary red velvet over boards. 4 ribbon ties have perished.

In a tray case, 41 cm.

MS Typ 1132. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Purchase; Laughlin bequest books; 2000 August 2; 2000H-22; $650 Bentinck-Smith fd.

Purchased with the Bentinck-Smith fund, 2000.