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The Hague, KB, 131 G 41
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Contents:
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Book of Hours (use of Sarum)
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Place of origin, date:
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Southern Netherlands; c. 1430-1450
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Material:
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Vellum, ff. 108, 169x116 102x63) mm, 20 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-/19th-century brown leather; blind (c. 1900)
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Decoration:
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8 full-page miniatures (118x61 mm) with border decoration; 9 historiated initials (c. 30x35 mm); decorated initial with border decoration in English style (f. 8r); decorated initials in English style with border decoration in Southern Netherlandish style (ff. 14r,25r, 30r, 33r, 36r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes throughout
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Provenance:
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Margareta Baller (16th century). Godebout family (17th-18th century). A. de Meunynck, Lille (bookplate); purchased in 1905 at his sale at R.P.W. de Vries, Amsterdam
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Annotation:
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General calendar with Sarum additions: feasts in red include St. Vulstanus (19 January), St. Augustine (`primus Angelorum'; 26 May). Leaves with full-page miniatures missing before f. 14 (Hours of the Virgin, Lauds), f. 41 (Hours of the Virgin,Compline)
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