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Breviary (summer part; use of Utrecht)

Place of origin, date:

Penwork: South Holland; c. 1490-1500. Historiated initials and decoration: Holland, Masters of the Dark Eyes (`Robinson') (illuminator); c. 1500

Material:

Vellum, ff. 396, 209x147 (140x88) mm, 34 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century red morocco; gilt

Decoration:

Penwork initials with pen-flourishes in South Holland style (related to `aubergine' and `radishes') throughout
3 historiated initials (35x50 mm) with border decoration in Ghent-Bruges style (Dutch `strewn border'); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 116r, 245r, 276r, 285r, 360r, etc.); decorated initials with border decoration (`strewn border'; ff. 7r, 278v, 328v,332r, 333v, etc.)

Provenance:

Probably made for a canon of the St. Salvator in Utrecht (f. 349v: `in ecclesia Sancti Salvatoris'). Acquired between 1806 and 1810

Annotation:

Utrecht calendar. Office of the Dead: Utrecht maiores and minores. F. 250r: `patris Willibrordi'

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