Book of Hours (use of )
Bruges, Masters of the small eyes (`aux yeux bridées) (illuminator); c. 1440-1460
Beschrijving
11 full-page miniatures (113x70 mm) with border decoration; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 7r, 9r, 12r, 19r, 30r, etc.); penwork initials with pen-flourishes (ff. 7v, 10v, 11r, 11v, 12v, etc.)
Herkomst
By legacy, mainly in female line, to the families De la Chambre and De Montjutiez (c. 1467-c. 1500), De Bougne (c. 1512-1520, d'Orsan (c. 1537-1577), d'Oiselet (c. 1600-1633) and De Froissart, marquess De Broussia (c. 1650-19th cent.). Purchased in 1993 from antiquarian bookseller F. Knuf, Buren (Gld.) with support of the Friends of the Royal Library, the VSB-Fonds Den Haag en Omstreken, the Stichting K.F. Hein-Fonds, and the Stichting Van Beuningen
Codicologie
Vellum, ff. 98, 196x134 ( ) mm, 21 lines, littera textualis. Latin. Binding: 19th-century brown leather, gilt
