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The Hague, KB, 135 E 40

Contents:

Book of Hours

Place of origin, date:

Utrecht; c. 1455-1460

Material:

Vellum, ff. 135, 190x140 (87x63) mm, 19 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century brwon leather; gilt

Decoration:

2 full-page miniatures (105/100x65 mm) with border decoration; 25 historiated initials (70/10x67/15 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 17v, 18v, 19v, 20v, 22v, etc.); small penwork initials on most pages

Provenance:

Sold in 1905 at H.G. Bom, Amsterdam (coll. of Mrs. Diederichs-Portman & H.F. Groen van Waarder; cat. 9-10 June, no. 2501); where purchased by M.-L.F. Boekenoogen of Amsterdam; his sale in 1940 at Mensing & fils, Amsterdam (cat. 9 April, no. 929, fig.); where purchasedby A.M Dorsemagen-van Hees, Heemstede; purchased in 1977 at a sale at Sotheby's, London (cat. 13 July, no. 68)

Annotation:

Utrecht calendar (Holland): feasts in gold include St. Adalbert (25 June) and St. Jeroen (17 August). First quire of Hours of the Virgin (ff. 13-19) now misbound, originally before f. 43. Several leaves missing: leaf with full-page miniature and opening leaf withhistoriated initial missing before f. 20 (Hours of the Eternal Wisdom, Prologue); opening leaf with historiated initial missing before f. 14 (Hours of the Virgin, Matins); full-page miniature missing before f. 77 (Long Hours of the Cross)

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