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The Hague, KB, 74 G 28

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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Rome; part only)

Place of origin, date:

Tours, follower of Jean Fouquet and others (illuminators); c. 1470

Decoration:

1 full-page miniature (miniature + margin; 125x90 mm); 1 full-page miniature (miniature + margin including some lines of text; 125x90 mm); 13 miniatures (75x45 mm); 24 illustrations in the margin (calendar); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 13r, 15r,17r, 19r, 33v, etc.)

Provenance:

Joseph Désiré Lupus (d. 1822) of Brussels; purchased with his collection in 1819 by King William I of The Netherlands; kept from 1819-1822 at the Musée Lupus in the Palace of Charles de Lorraine at Brussels (no. A 49) and transferred in 1823 to the KB

Annotation:

general calendar. Texts of Matins and Compline of the Hours of the Virgins, both with miniature, missing before f. 33 and after f. 98. Ms. is not misbound as stated by Schaefer 1994

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