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The Hague, KB, 76 F 15

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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Rome and Thérouanne)

Place of origin, date:

Diocese Thérouanne; c. 1450

Material:

Vellum, ff. 111, 224x156 (125x90) mm, 17 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century red leather; gilt

Decoration:

11 full-page miniatures (c. 138x90 mm), 1 miniature (106x90 mm), decorated initials with border decoration (9r, 15r, 20r, 33r, 42r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 16r, 21v, 22v, 24r, 26v, etc.)

Provenance:

De Senlis family (c. 1475-1480). 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 30) and transferred in1823 to the KB

Annotation:

Th‚rouanne calendar: feasts in red include: St. Omer (9 September), dedication of Notre Dame of Th‚rouanne (15 October), St. Maxime (27 November), and the dedication of a St. Nicolas church (1 September). Hours of the Virgin: use of Rome. Office of the Dead (threelessons: Qui Lazarum, Credo quod, Libera me ... de morte, correspond to those of Th‚rouanne, cf. Ottosen 1993, p. 188)

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