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The Hague, KB, 75 H 43

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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Cambrai; added section: Premonstrantensian use), containing in French: Suite de prières en vers pour la messe

Place of origin, date:

Arras; c. 1400. Added sections (ff. 13-28 and 86-125): Southern Netherlands; c. 1450-1475

Material:

Vellum, ff. 125, 141x104 (90x65 en 80x55) mm, 16 and 14 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century vellum

Decoration:

1 full-page miniature (80x50 mm); 1 historiated initial (27x33 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 37r, 51v, 54r, 56v, 61r, etc.)
Added sections: decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 21r, 86r)

Provenance:

Jenne Lengrant, widow of Jehan Magremon (16th century). Purchased in 1848 at a sale at H.C. Schetsberg, Leeuwarden (cat. 30 Nov.-2 Dec., no. 36)

Annotation:

Arras calendar: feasts in red include Deposition of St. Vedastus (6 February), his Relation (15 July) and Translation (1 October). Litany: St. Vedastus first among the confessors. Leaves with decorated initials missing before ff. 46 and 53 (Hours of the Virgin: Primeand Sext)

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