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The Hague, KB, 74 H 31
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Contents:
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Book of Hours
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Place of origin, date:
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North Holland (Haarlem?), Masters of the Haarlem Bible (illuminator); c. 1450-1475
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Material:
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Vellum, ff. 216, 159x118 (85x65) mm, 20 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 17th-/18th-century vellum; blind
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Decoration:
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5 miniatures (96/89x69/64 mm) with border decoration, 1 historiated initial (67x70 mm) with border decoration, 1 illustration in the margin; decorated initals with border decoration (ff. 47r, 69r, 115r, 140r, 155r, etc.); all border decroation in North Holland style(`bunches-of-twigs'); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in North Holland style (`fountains') on most pages
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Provenance:
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Family notes by Willem Janssen Pauwe (1609-1614) and one of his children (1659). Purchased in 1912 from antiquarian bookseller J. Tregaskis, London
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Annotation:
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Utrecht calendar: besides the usual Utrecht entries feasts in red include St. Jeroen, patron saint of Noordwijk, (August 17). Full-page miniature and decorated opening page missing before f. 91 (Hours of the Holy Spirit) and full-page miniature missing before f. 155(Office of the Dead). f. 177r: Suffrage to St. Bavo. Several quires misbound at end
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