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The Hague, KB, 134 C 60

Contents:

Psalter. Breviary (Bridgettine use)

Place of origin, date:

Den Bosch, Monastery Marienwater, Bridgettines/Bridgettinesses; 1468

Material:

Vellum, ff. 290, 147x105 (100x61) mm, 19 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 15th/16th-century brown leather; blind made c. 1500 by one of the Van Gavere binders in Gent

Decoration:

1 full page miniature (104x59 mm); 1 historiated initial (48x60 mm); 26 illustrations in the margin; penwork initials with pen-flourishes (8r, 176r, 121v, 231v, 245v, etc)

Provenance:

Suster Alit Snoex (d. 1517). D.-C. and J.-J. van Voorst; their sale in 1860 at Frederik Muller, Amsterdam (cat. 17 Oct., p. 15, no. 123). Six van Hillegom (bookplate); his sale in 1928 at Frederik Muller, Amsterdam (17-18 Nov. 1928, cat. no. 194). Purchased in 1959 ata sale at J.L. Beyers, Utrecht (cat. 21 April, no. 40) with support of the Friends of the Royal Library

Annotation:

Bridgettine calendar with Liège elements: feasts in blue include St. Catharine (25 November), feasts in red include St. Servatius 13 May), St. Augustine (28 August), St. Lambert (17 September), Caninisation of St. Bridget (7 October), St. Hubert (3 November), St.Leonard (6 November)

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