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The Hague, KB, 133 A 1

Contents:

Vie des Pères, en prose. Translation from the Latin made in 1486 at Lyons

Place of origin, date:

Bruges, Master of the Trivial Heads (illuminator); c. 1490-1500

Material:

Vellum, ff. 216, 446x332 (280x210) mm, 38 lines, littera hybrida (lettre bourguignonne##), Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt; with coat of arms of Stadholder William V

Decoration:

30 miniatures (68x58 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials (ff. 1r, 16r, 17r, 19v, 20r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes throughout

Provenance:

probably acquired by the Counts of Nassau Engelbert II (d. 1504) or Henri III (d. 1538); by descent to the Counts of Nassau and Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadholders, at The Hague; transfered in 1798 to the then newly-erected Nationale Bibliotheek (now:Koninklijke Bibliotheek)

Annotation:

Opening leaf, probably containing two-column miniature, missing before f. 2 (Prologue of St. Jerome)

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