Bible Historiale (Vol. I; incomplete at end)
Paris, `Sub-Fauvel' Master (illuminator); c. 1320-1340
Beschrijving
51 column miniatures (80/130x90/100 mm) with border decoration; 8 historiated initials (40/50x40/55 mm) with border decoration; 1 schematic drawing; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 9r, 13r, 16r, 33r, 45r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes on most pages
Herkomst
Philip of Cleves (d. 1528); purchased in 1531 from his estate by Henri III, Count of Nassau (d. 1538); by inheritance to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later Stadtholders, at The Hague; taken in 1795 to Paris by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB
Codicologie
Vellum, ff. 287, 433x320 (293x204) mm, 2 columns, 48 lines, littera textualis. French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V
