[Manuscript]. [Noblesse. Auvergne]. Confirmation of letters - Lot 11

[Manuscript]. [Noblesse. Auvergne]. Confirmation of letters of rehabilitation of nobility in favor of Antoine de Ceriers. 1527. In-folio (approx. 37 x 28.5 cm.), [34] leaves, ink on vellum, contemporary skin binding, 5-ribbed mute spine, traces of framing and cold fleurons on boards, traces of laces (binding rubbed, worm spots on spine and gap at tail, top board stained with worm tracery; slight finger marks in margins). The de Ceriers family gave seventeen consuls to the city of Riom between 1270 and 1539, and a chancellor to the seneschal of Auvergne. Jean II de Ceriers (c. 1440 - 1526), seigneur de Palerne, vicomte de la Rochebriant. esquire, treasurer to Duke Charles III, had been stripped of his nobility; his son Amable obtained royal letters of rehabilitation of nobility, dated April 2, 1526, which were ratified by the elected representatives of the election of Clermont and the consuls of the town of Riom, in favor of his son Antoine, on November 15, 1527. Amable de Ceriers (c. 1460 - between 1540 and 1543), lord of Ceriers-lès-Riom, Palerne, Gerzat and Eygurande, was one of the elected officials of the Auvergne Lower Country, and built a fine Renaissance-style townhouse in Riom (now the Hôtel de Ville); married to Jeanne Robertet, he was the brother-in-law of Florimond Robertet, lord of Alluye, notary and secretary to Charles VIII, Louis XII and François I. His son Antoine de Ceriers (c. 1490 - after 1531) was Treasurer, Receiver General of Finances in Riom. The first leaf features painted arms, azure with golden ostrich, which, according to an attached early handwritten note, belonged to a Golfer (or Golfet) family allied to the Ceriers family. Attached: - A patent of nobility in favor of Pierre Girard, lawyer at the Parliament, February 27, 1699. In-4, printed on vellum and filled in by hand, with painted coat of arms and the signature of Charles d'Hozier - An ink-drawn figure on old paper in-8, "Arbor porphyriana" - A small sheet of old notes about the document.