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The Hague, KB, 76 G 4

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Contents:

Book of Hours (use of Tournai)

Place of origin, date:

Tournai; c. 1500

Material:

Vellum, ff. 138, 196x141 (120x75) mm, 14 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 18th-century brown leather; gilt on spine

Decoration:

12 miniatures (132x75 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 14r, 23r, 30r, 42r, 55r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 14v, 15v, 21r, 28v, 31v, etc.)

Provenance:

Joseph Désiré Lupus (d. 1822) of Brussels; purchased with his collection in 1819 by King William I of The Netherlands; kept from 1819-1822 at the Musee Lupus in the Palace of Charles de Lorraine at Brussels (no. A 20) and transferred in 1823 to the KB

Annotation:

Tournai calendar: feasts in red include St. Eleutherius (20 February) and his translation (25 August), dedication of the Notre Dame of Tournai (9 May), St. Piatus (1 October), St. Nichasius (14 December)

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