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The Hague, KB, 131 G 7

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Contents:

Book of Hours

Place of origin, date:

North Holland, Masters of the Haarlem Bible (illuminator); [1457]

Material:

Vellum, ff. 158, 178x123 (97x66) mm, 22 lines, littera textualis, Binding: contemporary brown leather; blind (panalestampeD)

Decoration:

8 historiated initials (50/35x55/40 mm) with pen-flourishes; decorated initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 15v, 20v, 23r, 24v, 26v, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 76r, 78r, 95r, 99v, 102v, etc.); all penflourishes in North Holland style(`fountains')

Provenance:

W.J. Roijaards van den Ham; purchased in 1899 at his sale at J.L. Beijers, Utrecht (cat. #, pt. 3, no. 3743)

Annotation:

Utrecht calendar: feasts in red include St. Adalbert (June 25) and St. Jeroen (August 17)

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