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The Hague, KB, 71 H 56

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Contents:

Prayer Book

Place of origin, date:

I: North Holland (Amsterdam?), Gheertruut Claesd. Vermolen (scribe of second part); c. 1450-1500. II: Eastern part of the Northern Netherlands; c. 1460-1480

Material:

Vellum, ff. 168 (103+65), 142x105 (I: 88x60; II: 85x60) mm, 21 lines, I: littera textualis; II: littera hybrida, Binding: contemporary brown leather; blind (panel-stamped)

Decoration:

I: 2 illustrations in the margin; penwork initials with pen-flourishes in two North-Holland styles (`S-curve'; ff. 1r, 15r, 16r, 64r, 88r, etc.) and `coarse-leaf-and-eyelashes'; ff. 48r, 72r, 76v, 83v, 85v, etc.)
II: penwork initials (ff. 104r, 149r; 127v, 134v, 140r, etc.)

Provenance:

Purchased in 1803 at an auction at J. Thierry and C. Mensing, The Hague (coll. of May, J.A. Naber, a.o.; cat. 10 October, nr. 815)

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