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Contents:
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Book of Hours (part: Penitential Psalms, Office of the Dead en Commendatio animae)
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Place of origin, date:
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Southern Netherlands; c. 1450-1475
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Material:
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Vellum, ff. 74, 141x95 (88x59) mm, 19 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 19th-century red leather; gilt made by T. Armstrong of London
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Decoration:
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2 unframed coloured drawings (25x44 and 17x60 mm); decorated initial with border decoration (f. 20r); penwork initial with pen-flourishes (1r)
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Provenance:
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Ch.R. des Ruffières (bookplate); sale of C.N. de Ruffières in 1899 at Sotheby's, London (cat. 22 Febr., no. 1756). Presented in 1904 by S.C. Cockerell to C.H.StJ. Hornby of Shelley House, Chelsea (ms. 2). J.R. Abbey (nr. 3161); purchased in 1975 at the Abbey sale atSotheby's, London (cat. 25 March, no. 2958, 2 figs.)
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Annotation:
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Office of the Dead: translation of Geert Grote
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Bibliography:
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© Koninklijke Bibliotheek National Library of the Netherlands
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