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| Lot nr: | 1 |
| Book nr: | 33577 |
| Author: | [BOOK OF HOURS] |
| Title: | Book of hours in Dutch |
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| Year: | ca. 1480 |
| Description: | 8vo, [1]-[155]-[3] ff. Manuscript on vellum. Leaves foliated in ink in upper blank corner, measuring ca. 175 x 123 mm. (writing area: ca. 95 x 73 mm.) with regular text (littera textualis) in red & brown ink in a single column (20 lines per page). Decoration: 5 large initials: 7-8 lines, blue on gilt background, all with beautiful decorated borders. (Initials on f.11, 39, 59, 63 and 77). All margins with blue, red and green acanthus leafs, on f. 11 with a small head of a man, on f. 39 a green paroquet, on f. 59 and f. 77 other birds. With 29 smaller initials (2-4 lines, alternating red and blue) with penwork decoration (purple, red). Bound in a 15th-cent. brown calf binding, on wooden boards, spine with 5 raised bands (spine renewed), bronze catches, lacking clasps |
| Note: | Provenance: Adolfo Melli |
| Price: | €19500 |
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