Augustine, La Cité de Dieu (Book 1-10)
Paris, Orosius Master a.o. (illuminator); c. 1400-1410
Beschrijving
1 two-column miniature (180x180 mm) with border decoration; 10 column miniatures ( mm) with border decoration; 4 illustration in the margin (coat of arms, emblems and devise); decorated initials with border decoration 1r, 6r, 33v, 76v, 141r, etc.)
Herkomst
Acquired by Philip of Cleves (d. 1528) before 1492 (coat of arms with label); 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; taken in 1795 to Paris by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB
Codicologie
Vellum, ff. 339, 423x330 (259x179) mm, 2 columns, 48 lines, littera textualis. French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V
