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The Hague, KB, 71 A 17

Contents:

Livy, Histoire romaine. Translation from the Latin by Pierre Bersuire

Place of origin, date:

Paris, follower of the Luçon Master, First Master of the Grande Bible Historiale Compl‚t‚e of Jean, Duc de Berry (Paris, BNF, fr. 159) or Ravenelle Master (illuminators); c. 1390-1400

Material:

Vellum, ff. 228+196+160 (3 vols.), 415x303 (279x188) mm, 52 lines, littera textualis, Bindings: 18th-century brown leather; gilt

Decoration:

Vol. I: 1 two-column miniature (145x185 mm); 9 column miniatures (80/70x85/80 mm); 2 illustrations in the margin (emblems); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 9r, 12v, 19r, 23v, 26v, etc.); penwork initials throughout. Vol. II: 1 two-column miniature(154x185 mm); 9 column miniatures (100/80x105/80 mm); 2 illustrations in the margin (emblems); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 5r, 8r, 25r, 46r, 64r, etc.); penwork initials throughout. Vol. III: 1 two-column miniature (140x188 mm); 8 column miniatures (85/70x90/80mm); 2 illustrations in the margin (emblems); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 5r, 10r, 22v, 36r, 55r, etc.); penwork initials throughout
Added: coats of arms, emblems and motto of Philip of Cleves on the opening pages of all three volumes

Provenance:

possibly made for Bertrando de Rossi, Count of San Secundo (emblem). Louis de Luxembourg, connétable de France (d. 1475; signature); by descent to his granddaughter Françoise de Luxembourg and her husband Philip of Cleves (d. 1528; coats of arms, emblems, motto;signature); purchased in 1531 from Philip's estate by Henry III, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by descent to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadholders, at The Hague; carried off in 1795 to Paris by the French and restituted to the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in 1816

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