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The Hague, KB, 133 M 1

Contents:

Psalter in Dutch

Place of origin, date:

North Holland, Master of the Haarlem Bible (illuminator); ca. 1455-1465

Material:

Vellum, ff. 165, 165x115 (97x72) mm, 22 lines, littera textualis, Binding: contemporary brown leather; blind (panelstamped: Lamb of God)

Decoration:

2 historiated initials (36/35x53/45 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 28r, 41v, 68r, 98v); all border decoration in North Holland style (`bunches-of-twigs'); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in North Holland style (`thorn-and-stitch'; 114v, 117v, 120v, 121r, 131r, etc.)

Provenance:

Sister Susanne and sister Sibilla, daughters of Ian van der Meer, Tertiaries at the Convent of St. Ursula in Schiedam. Sold in 1764 at the sale of P. van Damme a.o. at F.L. Varon & J. Gaillard, The Hague (cat. 8 Oct. Pt. 3, no. 2626). J. Koning; his sale in 1833 at HetHuis met de Hoofden, Amsterdam (cat. 29 April, pt. 1, no. 181), where purchased by Groebe. Sold in 1938 at a sale at Van Stockum, The Hague (cat. 28 Nov.-3 Dec., no. 1811), where bought by antiquarian bookseller Meyer Elte, The Hague; purchased in 1938 from Meyer Elte

Annotation:

Opening leaf, probably with historiated initial, missing before fol. 1 (Psalm 1)

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