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The Hague, KB, 75 G 2

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Contents:

Book of Hours

Place of origin, date:

Diocese Liège (Tongres?); c. 1450-1500. Added miniatures: Diocese Liège; c. 1450-1500

Material:

Vellum, ff. 296, 138x98 (95x62) mm, 17 lines (ff. 197-275: 19 lines), littera hybrida, Binding: 16th-century brown leather (rebacked)

Decoration:

Decorated initials with or without border decoration (ff. 14r, 93r, 133r); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in 2 styles (ff. 65r, 158v, 181r (partly with painted eye) and ff. 66r, 159v, 197r, 206r, 231r)
Added (f. 64v): 1 miniature (117x76 mm)
Added (f. 196v): 1 miniature (100x61) with border decoration in Liège style

Provenance:

A. Bogaers (d. 1870); presented in 1870 by his daughter together with the collection of Bogaers

Annotation:

Liège calendar: feasts in red include Dedication of the Church of Tongres (7 May), St. Lambertus (28 April, 17 September), St. Servaes (11 May), St. Giles (1 September), St. Maternus (25 September), St. Denis (9 October), St. Hubertus (3 November), St. Leonardus (6November). Litany: St. Augustine first among the confessors. 1 mounted coloured woodcut (f. 205v) with printed border decoration (Entry of Christ in Jerusalem)

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