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Contents:

Book of Hours in Dutch

Place of origin, date:

Utrecht, Bible Masters of the First Generation: Gethsemane Master and Master Azor (illuminators); c. 1430

Material:

Vellum, ff. 208, 157x102 (93x53) mm, 16 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 16th-century brown leather; blind (rebacked)

Decoration:

10 full-page miniatures (115/90x65/55 mm) with border decoration; 3 historiated initials (72/55x67/52 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 28r, 41r, 46v, 51v, 57r, etc.); all border decoration in Utrecht style (`elongated greenleaves, tri-petals, `thistles', large multi-coloured feathery leaves of the Psalter Master (f. 135r); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in Utrecht style (`krausel'; ff. 14v, 20v, 21v, 30r, 98v, etc.)

Provenance:

W.J. Roijaards van den Ham; purchased at his sale in 1899 at J.L. Beyers, Utrecht (cat. dl. 3, no. 3741)

Annotation:

Utrecht calendar. Full-page miniatures missing before ff. 41r (Hours of the Virgin, Prime), f. 52 (Hours of the Virgin, Sext), f. 62 (Hours of the Virgin, Vesper), f. 135 (Penitential Psalms)

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