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The Hague, KB, 76 G 18

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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Paris)

Place of origin, date:

Soissons(?); c. 1450

Material:

Vellum, ff. 136, 186x135 (105x75) mm, 16 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century red leather; gilt

Decoration:

13 miniatures (100x75 mm), 5 historiated initials (30/25x35/25 mm), decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 25r, 33v, 43r, 44v, 46r, 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 34) and transferred in 1823 to the KB

Annotation:

Paris calendar: feasts in gold include St. Geneviève (3 January)

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