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Contents:

Book of Hours

Place of origin, date:

North Holland (Beverwijk?), Spierinck (illuminator); 1489

Material:

Vellum, ff. 159, 135x95 (80x65) mm, 19 lines, littera textualis, Binding: 16th-century brown leather; gilt (with date 1563)

Decoration:

7 full-page miniatures (95/75x55/45 mm) with border decoration; 3 historiated initials (45/35x50/45 mm) with border decoration; 2 scenes in the margin; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 46r, 48r, 51r, 67r, 128r); penwork initials with pen-flourishes inNorth Holland style (`geometric'; ff. 1r, 28r, 30v, 35v, 37v, etc.)

Provenance:

Alan Lubbock (bookplate). Purchased in 2000 from antiquarian bookseller Les Enluminures, Paris (cat. 9, no. 28, figs)

Annotation:

Signed and dated `spic' and `1489' on fol. 14r.

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