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The Hague, KB, 76 E 20

Contents:

Le Livre de l'information des princes. Translation from the Latin by Jean Golein

Place of origin, date:

Paris, Master of Étienne Sanderat de Bourgogne (illuminator); 1453

Material:

Vellum, ff. 182, 339x219 (219x154) mm, 31 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt; with coat of arms of Stadholder William V

Decoration:

2 two-column miniatures (143x148 and 140x147 mm); 3 column miniatures (116/102x68/67 mm); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 1r, 6r, 71r, 134r, 158r, etc.); penwork initials throughout
Added: 1 illustration in the margin (coat of arms)

Provenance:

made in 1453 for Giovanni Arnolfini (d. 1470), Luccese merchant at Bruges and Rouen (colophon). Philip of Cleves (d. 1528; coat of arms, over erasure); 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; sold in 1749 at the sale of the Orange-Nassau library at P. van Cleef & D. Monnier, The Hague (cat. 1 Dec., p. 218, no. 69), where purchased by J.A. Nuske; sold in 1757 at the Nuske sale at O. van Thol & N. van Daalen, The Hague (cat. 14March, Fol., p. 120, no. 491); purchased, probably at this sale by Stadholder William V; carried off in 1795 to Paris by the French and restituted to the KB in 1816

Annotation:

On fol. 6 the sword is a later addition

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