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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Rome)

Place of origin, date:

Bruges, Masters of Otto van Moerdrecht (`stamp' group; illuminator); c. 1430-1450

Material:

Vellum, ff. 98, 150x110 (83x60) mm, 18 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; blind

Decoration:

12 full-page miniatures (c. 80x55 mm) with border decoration; decorated initals with border decoration (ff. 9r, 12r, 20r, 33r, 42r, etc.); small penwork initials throughout

Provenance:

Johann Bapt. Steidlin von Grünsperg (18th cent.). Donaueschingen, Fürstlich-Fürstenbergischen Hofbibliothek (no. 329); purchased in 1982 at the Donaueschingen sale at Sotheby's, London (cat. 21 June, no. 15, 1 colourpl, 2 figs.)

Annotation:

Calendar: feasts in red include St. Denis (9 October), St. Donartian (14 October), St. Eligius (1 December), St. Nichasius (14 December). Next to miniatures are little stamps with letter `i'(f. 8v) and `b' (all others)

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