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The Hague, KB, 135 E 45

Contents:

Book of Hours (`Bezborodko Hours')

Place of origin, date:

Holland, Masters of the Dark Eyes (`Bezborodko': Master of the Bezborodko Hours) (illuminator); 1490

Material:

Vellum, ff. 123, 177x126 (100x75) mm, 23 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 19th-century red velvet with enamel plaques; with initials K.B. and date 1859

Decoration:

4 full-page miniatures (120/115x65 mm) with border decoration; 13 miniatures (70/55x55/50 mm) with border decoration; 1 historiated initial (55x60 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff.14r, 14v, 15r, 16r, 17r, etc.); penworkinitials with pen-flourishes in South Holland style (`radishes'; ff. 92r, 92v, 93r, 93v, 94r)

Provenance:

N. A. Kusheev Bezborodko (1859). Sold in 1932 at Georges Andrieux, Paris with the collection of Mr. E.R.-A. (cat. 19 Nov., no III, fig.). Purchased in 1979 at a sale at Sotheby's, London (cat. 11 Dec., no. 50) with support of the Friends of the RoyalLibrary

Annotation:

Utrecht calendar. Leaves with full-page miniatures missing before f. 13 (Hours of the Virgin, Matins) and f. 53 (Hours of the Eternal Wisdom); leaf with historiated initial missing before f. 34 (Hours of the Virgine, Compline)

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