The Golf Book (

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Add MS 24098) is the common name for an illuminated manuscript

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in the Use of Rome dating from the 1540s. Only 23 pages remain of the original created by the illuminator

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and his studio in

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. It owes its popular name to one illustration in the calendar, with people playing a game resembling that of

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

. It is presumed to have been made for a

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as the book includes a miniature painting of St Boniface of Lausanne. File:March- gardening and felling trees; and playing with rattles - The Golf Book (1520-1530), f.20v - BL Add MS 24098.jpg, March- gardening and felling trees; and playing with rattles File:May- Boating party; and archery - The Golf Book (1520-1530), f.22v - BL Add MS 24098.jpg, May- Boating party; and archery File:September- Ploughing, sowing and harrowing; and playing with marbles and stilts - The Golf Book (1520-1530), f.26v - BL Add MS 24098.jpg, September- Ploughing, sowing and harrowing; and playing with marbles and stilts

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British Library catalogue record for manuscript
item ''Add MS 24098''

(Virtual books, accessible version)

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Illuminated books of hours British Library additional manuscripts 1540s books Golf books {{British-Library-stub

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