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"inscription": "text, in block: [see object file]",
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"inscription": "lower center, in graphite: 9 10",
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"title": "Year in Review for 1986",
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"title": "Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art",
"description": "Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-February 2, 1992).",
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"title": "Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection",
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"title": "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).",
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"description": "Cloister Wiblingen, Ulm, Germany",
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"date": "May 7, 1935",
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"date": "June 21, 1985",
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"description": "(R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, CA)",
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"date": "1985-86",
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"description": "This hand-colored leaf is from the blockbook Biblia Pauperum (Bible of the Poor), which served as an educational handbook for laymen and clerics. Blockbooks, in which images and text were carved in relief from a single block of wood, are the earliest form of printed text in Europe. On each page, two Old Testament episodes flank a New Testament scene, implying a connection between the stories. At left is Christ\u2019s baptism between the Pharaoh\u2019s drowned army and spies returning from Canaan. To the right is Christ\u2019s temptation bordered by Esau selling his birthright to Jacob and the temptation of Adam and Eve.",
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