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"title": "Miniature Excised from a Psalter: The Nativity",
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"title": "When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story",
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"title": "The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); \"Illuminated Manuscripts\"",
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"description": "French Gothic Decorative Arts, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI (November 16-December 16, 1928).",
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"description": "Durlacher Brothers, London (until 13 March, 1924)",
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"description": "This miniature survives with other fragments from a psalter preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It has been suggested that the manuscript may have been made for Queen Eleanor of Provence who became a nun of Amesbury in England following the death of her husband, King Henry III. The style and high quality of this miniature supports its association with a deluxe manuscript psalter made for a high-ranking patron.",
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"citation": "\"Illuminated Miniatures in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 4 (April 1925): 61-71",
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