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The Hague, RMMW, 10 B 21

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Contents:

Jacob van Maerlant, Rhimebible

Place of origin, date:

Utrecht, Michiel van der Borch (illuminator); 1332

Material:

Vellum, ff. 194, 350x340 (245x160) mm, 46 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 17th-century brown leather; gilt

Decoration:

2 full-page miniatures (250x170 mm); 1 column miniature (220x73 mm#); 62 column miniatures (85/54x95/75 mm); 1 historiated initial (43x50 mm); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 2r, 20v, 31r, 32v, 37v, etc.)

Provenance:

Van Renesse van der Aa family (16th-17th century). A. Bosch; purchased in 1729 by I. Le Long, Amsterdam (1683-1762); purchased in 1744 by J. Marcus (his sale, cat. August, Fol. no. 2); purchased in 1750 by Th. Mull (his sale, Sept. 5, lot 9); purchased in 1755 at asale (cat. 5 May, no. 453) by G. Meerman; by descent to his son J. Meerman (d. 1815); purchased in 1824 at the Meerman sale (lot 931) by W.H.J. van Westreenen

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