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The Hague, KB, 134 C 53

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Contents:

Prayer Book

Place of origin, date:

Maastricht, probably Convent Maagdendriesch, Tertiaries; c. 1500-1525. Added leaf (f. 115): Maaseik; c. 1480-1500. Added drawings: Maastricht(?); 16th century

Material:

Paper (and vellum), ff. 306, 140x105 (90x60) mm, 23-24 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; blind and gilt

Decoration:

Decorated initials with border decoration in Limburg style (ff. 18r; `large flowers': ff. 75r); penwork initials with penflourishes (ff. 32r, 36v, 42v, 49v, 62v, etc.)
Added leaf (vellum; f. 115): 1 penwork initial with border decoration in Limburg style (`Maaseik')
Added: 3 full-page unframed coloured drawings (125/80x90/50) surrounded by flourishing (coarse)

Provenance:

Th. Sonner (19th cent.). A. Labitte, Paris (c. 1895). Albert Hyma, Ann Arbor, Mich. (1919); acquired from Hyma by H. Bos Kzn. and presented in 1957 to the KB

Annotation:

Liège calendar: feasts in red include: St. Servatius (13 May), his translation (7 June) and Dedication of the Church of St. Servatius (9 September), St. Francis `onse vader` (4 October), St. Denis (9 October), St. Hubert (3 November, St. Leonard (6 November). F. 15r:Circle with dates 1500-1519

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