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The Hague, KB, 69 B 10

Contents:

History Bible (Psalter and New Testament)

Place of origin, date:

Utrecht, Gerard Wesselz. van Deventer (scribe), Master of The Hague, KB, 69 B 10 (illuminator); 1443

Material:

Vellum, ff. 248, 395x295 (275x195) mm, 56 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: contemporary brown leather; blind

Decoration:

4 column miniatures (82/145x90/98 mm) with border decoration, 1 pendrawn column miniature (100x90 mm) with border decoration, 28 historiated initials (45/50x50/55 mm) with border decoration; all border decoration in Utrecht style (large acanthus leaves and/or`thistles'); 1 illustration in the margin; decorated initials with border decoration in Utrecht style (large acanthus leaves; ff. 150v, 159r, 164r, 165v, 167v, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes in 2 different styles: Utrecht style (`little stars'; ff: 8r, 8v, 9r, 9v, 10r,etc.) and Utrecht style with `eastern' influences (ff. 119r, 119v, 120r, 120v, 121r)

Provenance:

Presented in 1676 by Ernest Ignatius Busch, parish priest of Aelten (Gelderland?), to Johannes Constantinus de Richeliis (Johan Constantijn van Rijckel), decanus Borchensis. Prince Karl of Prussia (stamped ex-libris); by descent to his son Friedrich Leopold of Prussia,his sale in 1931 at Ball & Graupe, Berlin (cat. 27-28 November, lot 406, pl. 27). Purchased in 1939 from antiquarian bookseller Hanns Wolff, The Hague

Annotation:

Opening leaves with column miniature and historiated initial missing before f. 41 (Gospels) and f. 128 (Acts)

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