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The Hague, KB, 135 G 18

Contents:

Psalter / Book of Hours (use of Sarum)

Place of origin, date:

Southern Netherlands; c. 1250-1300. Added section: (ff. 171-223): England; c. 1440-1460

Material:

Vellum, ff. 223 (171+52), 86x59 (I: 65x45) mm; (II: 60x40) mm, I: 20 lines; II: 19 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt; with coat of arms of the Count of Dysart

Decoration:

1 coloured drawing (unframed); 8 historiated initials (35/24x33/25 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 11r, 12v, 13v, 15v, 17v, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes throughout
Added section (ff. 171-223): decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 197v, 191v, 192v, 195v, 206v, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in English style (`saw') throughout

Provenance:

Lord Tollemache, Count of Dysart; purchased in 1971 at a sale at Sotheby's, London (cat. 12 July, no. 40, fig.)

Annotation:

General Southern Netherlandish calendar with no entries in red. Leaves with historiated initials missing before f. 11 (Psalm 1) and f. 72 (Psalm 68). Quire with beginning of Penitential Psalms missing before f. 171

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