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The Hague, KB, 130 E 5

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Contents:

Book of Hours

Place of origin, date:

South Holland; c. 1470-1480. Added miniature (f. 86): Leyden, Masters of the Suffrages (illuminator); c. 1480-1490. Added miniatures: Leyden, Masters of the Suffrages (illuminator); 1500-1510

Material:

Vellum, ff. 144, 179x123 (99x64) mm, 21 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; blind

Decoration:

1 historiated initial (43x60mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 48r, 69r, 87r, 106r): all border decoration in South Holland style; penwork initials with penflourishes
Added: 6 miniatures (127x87 mm) with border decoration in South Holland style (`strewn border')

Provenance:

Purchased in 1803 at the sale of May, J.A. Naber, a.o. at J. Thierry and C. Mensing, The Hague (cat. 10 Oct., no. 813)

Annotation:

Utrecht calendar: feasts in red include St. Jeroen (17 August). Leaves (at least one quire) containing Litany and beginning of Office of the Dead, probably with full-page miniature, missing between ff. 113-114

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