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English: Vincent of Beauvais, Le Miroir Historial (Vol. IV)
Place of origin, date: Paris, Master of the Cité des Dames (illuminator); c. 1400- 1410
Material: Vellum, ff. 401, 425x320 (254x196) mm, 2 columns, 43 lines, littera cursiva. French. Binding: 18th-century brown leather, gilt, with coat of arms of Stadtholder William V
Decoration: 1 two-column miniature (185x200 mm with border decoration), 19 column miniatures (110/70x90/85 mm) with border decoration, 1 illustration in the margin (coat of arms); decorated initials with border decoration (ff. 3r, 10r, 15r, 19r, 20r, etc.)
Provenance: 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 at The Hague; taken in 1795 to Paris by the French occupying forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB
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