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The Hague, KB, 71 A 15

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Contents:

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

Place of origin, date:

Hainaut, Follower of the Master of Antoine Rolin (illuminator); c. 1480-1490

Material:

Vellum, ff. 219, 405x300 (240x185) mm, 38 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt; with coat of arms of Stadholder William V

Decoration:

1 two-column miniature (202x183 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials on most pages
Added: 2 illustrations in the margin (coats of arms)

Provenance:

Acquired after 1492 by Philip of Cleves (d. 1528; coat of arms without 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; carriedoff in 1795 to Paris by the French and restituted to the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in 1816

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