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The Hague, KB, 76 E 18

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Contents:

Mass and Office Book of the Confraternity of St. Catherine, founded in the Hôpital de Ste-Catherine at Paris (noted)

Place of origin, date:

Paris; c. 1400-1410 (I). Added section (ff. 65-66, 69-71, 80-94): Paris; 1450 (II). Added section (ff. 111-118): Paris(?); c. 1700-1800 (III)

Material:

Vellum, ff. 119, 315x245 (I: 210x160; II: 235/230x175/170) mm, 20 lines or 4 lines and music, littera textualis, Binding: 15th-century white leather

Decoration:

3 miniatures (115/110x160/155 mm); decorated initials with border decoration (f. 1r, 19r, 95r); penwork initials with pen-flourishes throughout (I)
Added leaves and added text on existing leaves (II): penwork initials throughout
Added section (III): decorated initials (ff. 111r, 114r)

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 43) and transferred in 1823 to the KB

Annotation:

The miniatures of (I) are related in style to those in a Chronique of Froissart (Paris, BNF, fr. 2675, ff. 32r, 45v, 60r)

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