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The Hague, KB, 74 G 38
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Contents:
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Book of Hours (`Hours of Jean Lallemant le Jeune'; use of Bourges)
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Place of origin, date:
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Bourges; c. 1540
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Material:
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Vellum, ff. 152, 158x95 (101x53) mm, 19 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: 18th-century red leather; gilt made by C. Micke (1768)
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Decoration:
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12 full-page miniatures (110x65 mm); 1 full-page miniature (coat of arms; 115x65 mm); 24 illustrations in the margin; decorated initials throughout
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Provenance:
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made for Jean Lallemant le Jeune, Lord of Marmagne (d. 1548). Purchased in 1750 from J.H. van Wassenaer-van Obdam (his sale at P. de Hondt, The Hague; cat. Aug. 10, p. 63, no. 802) by stadholder William IV, prince of Orange-Nassau; by descent to William I, king of TheNetherlands, who ceded it in 1816 to the KB
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Annotation:
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Bourges calendar: feasts in red include St. William, archbishop of Bourges (January 10), St. Sulpice (February 17), St. Austregisillus (May 20), St. Ursinus (December 29)
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