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The Hague, KB, 128 G 34

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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Antwerp)

Place of origin, date:

Southern Netherlands; c. 1500-1510

Material:

Vellum, ff. 123, 156x108 (90x60) mm, 17 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century blue velvet; blind

Decoration:

7 miniatures (66/60x64/62 mm) with border decoration; 2 illustrations in the margin; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 43r,

Provenance:

Purchased in 1898 from antiquarian bookseller J. Tregaskis, London

Annotation:

Non-specific Southern Netherlandish calendar: feasts in red include St. Goedele (8 January), St. Nichasius (December 14). Office of the Dead: use of Antwerp. 5 or 6 miniatures lacking: opening leaf, possibly with full-page miniature, missing before f. 13 (Hours of theCross); opening leaves containing miniatures missing before ff. 56, ## (Hours of the Virgin, Terts, Noon, Vespers and Compline) and before f. 74 (Penitential Psalms)

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