Contents:

Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme

Place of origin, date:

Flanders; c. 1350

Material:

Vellum, ff. 164, 278X208 (215x160) mm, 2 columns, 38-40 lines, littera textualis. Dutch. Binding: 16th-century brown leather, gilt

Decoration:

455 column miniatures (75/20x65/55 mm); 34 schematic drawings; decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 38r, ); penwork initials with pen-flourishes throughout

Provenance:

Since 1937 on permanent loan from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences), Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen

Annotation:

calendar

Bibliography:

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