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The Hague, KB, 135 G 10

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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Utrecht)

Place of origin, date:

Southern Netherlands, Follower of Willem Vrelant (illuminator); c. 1440-1460

Material:

Vellum, ff. 165, 160x112 (110x70) mm, 19 lines, littera textualis, Binding: contemporary brown leather; blind (rebacked)

Decoration:

13 full-page miniatures (99/93x60/56 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 15r, 17r, 19r, 21r, 43r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes throughout

Provenance:

Presented by Jan de Kock to his niece sister Griet van Haselberch and her Convent. Purchased in 1971 from antiquarian bookseller Meyer Elte, The Hague with support of the Friends of the Royal Library

Annotation:

Added Cologne calendar: feasts in red include St. Albinus (June 21), St. Panthaleon (July 28), St. Stephen, patron saint of Nijmegen (3 August), St. Severinus (Oct. 23), St. Cunibertus (November 12), St. Cecily (November 22). Leaves with full-page miniatures missingbefore ff. ## (Short Hours of the Cross, None, Vespers and Compline)

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