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The Hague, KB, 73 E 35

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Contents:

Life of St. Francis (La leggenda del beate messere sancto franciescho)

Place of origin, date:

Italy; c. 1450-1500 (?) (f. 77v: 16th century?)

Material:

Vellum, ff. 77, 302x220 (240x158) mm, 43-44 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 19th-century half leather (before 1807)

Decoration:

2 drawings, 1 historiated initial (drawing); penwork initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 'r, 'v, 2v, 4r, 6v, etc.)

Provenance:

P.A. Bolongaro-Crevenna; purchased in 1790 at his sale at D.J. Changuion & P. den Hengst, Amsterdam (26 Apr.; cat. of 1789, pt. 4, p. 58 no. 5991) by Joost Romswinckel (1745-1824) of Leiden; purchased in 1807 as part of the Romswinckel collection by King Louis Napoleonof The Netherlands and placed in the KB

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