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Very well prepared and highly selected, thin to medium parchment
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Knights jousting carry shields bearing heraldry of Châtillon de Blois and Hainaut (or Flanders). Heraldic imagery of Châtillon de Blois, Hainaut (Flanders), Namur, and Vinacourt also in borders.
French seventeenth-century brown calf decorated on sides with oval wreathes on both boards and gilt fillets at the edges; edges regilt; spine with four compartments containing gilt floral and foliate motif; nineteenth- or early twentieth-century brown case decorated with gilt fleurs-de-lis on upper cover and gilt inscription: "livre / d'heures / de / Marie de Hainaut / et de / Louis de Chastillon / 1300-1310"