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Contents:

Book of Hours

Place of origin, date:

Haarlem, Masters of the Haarlem Bible (illuminator); c. 1445-1450

Material:

Vellum, ff. 213, 136x92 (73x48) mm, 17 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 17th-century

Decoration:

5 full-page miniatures (82x52 mm); decorated initials with border decoration in North Holland style (early `bunches of twigs'; ff. )

Provenance:

Jeurian Klaesz (1663). Scholte Collection, Amsterdam. Purchased in 1760 by Jan Pieter Peelen. Tulford Redman (bookplate). Presented in 1908 by J.W. Smith to the Public Library of Syracuse (NY), ms. Smith 6; sold in 1996 at an auction in California. Purchased in 1996from antiquarian book dealer Forum, 't Goy

Annotation:

Miniature of Annunciation copied after a Delft grisaille. Also some Delft details in the decoration

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