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The Hague, KB, 76 F 26

Contents:

Cicero, Oraison pour Marcellus.
Pliny the Younger, Oraison … la loenge de Traianus.
Petrus Candido Decembrio, Comparaison entre Caesar et Alexandre.
Giovanni Aurispa, Comparaison entre Alexandre, Hannibal et Scipion (adaptation of Lucianus of Samosata's Comparison between Alexander the Great and Hannibal). Translations from the Latin and the Italian

Place of origin, date:

France; c. 1480-1490

Material:

Vellum, ff. 85, 220x155 (133x88) mm, 22 lines, littera hybrida, Binding: 18th-/19th-century green leather; gilt (c. 1800)

Decoration:

5 full-page miniatures (210/200x140/135 mm); decorated initials (ff. 1v, 11v, 18v, 47r, 49r, etc.)
Added in the 16th-/17th-century (ff. 85r-v): 2 full-page miniatures (192x155 mm); 1 illustration in the margin (coat of arms)

Provenance:

P.A. Bolongaro-Crevenna (cat. 1775, III, pp. 103-104); his sale in 1790 at D.J. Changuion & P. den Hengst, Amsterdam (26 Apr.; cat. of 1789, vol. 3, no. 3323), where bought by Joost Romswinckel (1745-1824) of Leiden; purchased in 1807 as part of the Romswinckelcollection by King Louis Napoleon of The Netherlands and placed in the KB

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