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"title": "Single Leaf from an Antiphonary: Initial H[odie nobis] with The Nativity",
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"title": "The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art",
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"title": "Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115",
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"description": "This initial h introduces the first matins response for Christmas Day: Hodie nobis celorum rex (\u201cOn this day the King of Heaven\u201d). Illustrating this artist\u2019s love of fantastic detail, an entwined dragon climbs the ascender of the h. Christ\u2019s nativity is within the letter, complete with adoring shepherds. Above is the figure of Christ blessing, surrounded by singing angels intended to suggest the heavenly realm. Benvenuto is first recorded in 1453, when he is known to have been working on the frescoes in the Siena Baptistery. This leaf comes from a set of choir books commissioned for Siena\u2019s Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala by Niccol\u00f2 Ricoveri, the hospital\u2019s rector, as indicated by the coat of arms at the bottom of the leaf.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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