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The Hague, KB, 71 A 14

Contents:

Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes (Vol. I)

Place of origin, date:

Northern France; c. 1460-1470

Material:

Vellum, ff. 322, 405x300 (240x190) mm, 38 lines, littera hybrida (lettre bourguignonne), Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt; with coat of armes of Stadholder William V

Decoration:

1 two-column miniature (197x190 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 1v, 77r, 142v, 177r, etc.)
Added: 5 illustrations in the margin (1 coat of arms and 4 emblems)

Provenance:

acquired before 1492 by Philip of Cleves (d. 1528; coat of arms with label, over erasure; signature); purchased in 1531 from his estate by Henri III, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by descent to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadholders, at The Hague; carried offin 1795 to Paris by the French and restituted to the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in 1816

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