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The Hague, KB, 133 D 14

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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Rome), containing in French: Prière aux trois Maries

Place of origin, date:

Bruges, Masters of the Gold Scrolls (illuminators); c. 1420-1440. Miniatures: Flanders, late Master of the Pr‚-Eykian Realism (illuminator); c. 1420-1440

Material:

Vellum, ff. 116, 202x151 (124x74) mm, 17 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-/19th-century brown leather; gilt

Decoration:

9 historiated initials (50x70/60 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 8r, 10r, 12r, 14r, 16r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 12v, 20v, 21r, 21v, 22r, etc.)
Added: 8 full-page miniatures (145/140x115/95 mm) with border decoration

Provenance:

Purchased in 1896 from Herman Kolff of Rotterdam

Annotation:

calendar: feasts in red include St. Eligius (25 June and 1 December), St. Denis (9 October), St. Nichasius (14 December). Leaf with historiated initial missing before f. 49 (Hours of the Virgin: Sext)

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