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The Hague, KB, 76 E 12

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Contents:

Statutes and ordonnances of the Order of the Golden Fleece

Place of origin, date:

Southern Netherlands; c. 1485

Material:

Vellum, ff. 44, 283x202 (180x125) mm, 32 lines, littera cursiva, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt with coat of arms of Stadholder William V

Decoration:

1 miniature (150x129 mm); 1 historiated initial with border decoration (f. 4r)

Provenance:

Possibly made for Count Engelbert II of Nassau; by descent to the Counts of Nassau and Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadholders, at The Hague; carried off in 1795 to Paris by the French and restituted to the KB in 1816

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