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The Hague, KB, 135 J 8

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Contents:

Diurnal (Carthusian use)

Place of origin, date:

Northern Italy; c. 1480-1500

Material:

Vellum, ff. 380, 88x63 (50x35) mm, 17 lines, littera textualis, Binding: contemporary(?) brown leather; blind

Decoration:

2 historiated initials (15x18 and 24x28 mm); 2 illustrations in the margin; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 283v; 133r, 207v, 223v, 239v, 247v, etc.)

Provenance:

E. de Silva, Milano (d. 1840; bookplate). E. and A.W. Arnold, The Grove, Dorking, Surrey (bookplate). Purchased by A. Chester Beatty from antiquarian bookseller Chaundy, London; purchased in 1968 at the Beatty sale by antiquarian bookdealer Meyer Elte, The Hague andsold to the KB in 1973

Annotation:

Carthusian calendar: feasts in red include St. Hugues of Grenoble (1 April, St. Hugues of Lincoln (17 November)

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