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The Hague, RMMW, 10 A 12

Contents:

Augustine, La Cité de Dieu (Vol. II). Translation from the Latin by Raoul de Presles

Place of origin, date:

Paris, Virgil Master (illuminator); c. 1410-1412

Material:

Vellum, ff. 285, 420x310 (296x208) mm, 48-49 lines, littera cursiva, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; blind and gilt (c. 1769)

Decoration:

1 two-column miniature (208x210 mm); 11 column miniatures (110/85x95/90 mm); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 2r, 19r, 32r, 44r, 63v, etc.)

Provenance:

P.-L.-C. le Roy, Lord of La Potherye (18th century). Jesuits of the Collège Louis-le-Grand (Collège de Clermont), Paris; purchased in 1764 as part of this collection (Clermont-cat. of 1764, no. 775) by Gerard Meerman (1722-1771) of Rotterdam, later The Hague; bydescent to his son Johan Meerman (1753-1815); acquired between 1815 and 1824 by Willem H.J. van Westreenen van Tiellandt (1783-1848) of The Hague; by legacy to the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1848

Annotation:

vol. I now: Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, fr. 6272

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