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The Hague, KB, 135 F 4

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Contents:

Book of Hours and Prayer Book

Place of origin, date:

South Holland; c. 1490-1500

Material:

Vellum, ff. 205, 140x100 (78x56) mm, 17 lines, littera textualis, Binding: contemporary brown leather; blind (rebacked)

Decoration:

7 historiated initials (50/35x42/34 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 28v, 37v, 41r, 44v, 47v, etc.); decorated initials with penflourishes in South Holland style (ff. 14r, 15r, 15v, 16v, 17v, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in South Holland style (ff. 114v, 116v, 119v, 142v, 143r, etc.)

Provenance:

Discovered in 1836 by J.V. Schuwirth, parish priest, at the Roman Catholic `Statie' on the Carolieweg, Groningen. Dominicans, Huissen; Purchased in 1965 as part of the collection of the Dominicans of the Collegium Albertinum, Nijmegen

Annotation:

Utrecht calendar: feasts in red include St. Jeroen (17 August)

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