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The Hague, KB, 133 F 3

Contents:

Prayer Book

Place of origin, date:

Maaseik, Convent of St. Agnes, Canonesses Regular; c. 1475-1500. Added decoration: Limburg(?); c. 1500

Material:

Paper (and vellum), ff. 225, 140x98 (96x61) mm, 20 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; blind; gilt on spine; with coat of arms of G.N.P. Hasselaer in silver

Decoration:

Penwork initials with border decoration in Maaseik style (ff. 13r, 42r, 53r, 74v)
Added decoration: 1 full-page miniature (96x66 mm) with border decoration; 2 miniatures (52x62 and 73x63 mm); 1 historiated initial (53x50 mm) with border decoration; 1 decorated initial with border decoration (f. 216r); all border decoration in Ghent-Bruges style(crude `strewn border'); decorated initials (ff. 150v, 160r, 164v, 170r, 176r, etc.)
Added on f. 149r : 1 historiated initial with border decoration in Ghent-Bruges style (`strewn border')

Provenance:

G.N.P. Hasselaer (18th century; bookplate). Purchased in 1897 from antiquarian bookseller J. Schulman, Amersfoort (cat. no. 303a)

Annotation:

Liège calendar: feasts in red include St. Relindis (2 February), Sts. Harlindis and Relindis (22 March), St. Augustine (28 August), St. Lambert (17 September), St. Harlindis (12 October), St. Hubert (3 November) and St. Leonard (6 November). F. 148v: inserted colouredengraving (Annunciation)

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