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"id": 169740,
"description": "Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Flight into Egypt (2 of 2 Excised Leaves), early 1300s. Northern France or Flanders, early 14th Century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leaf: 13 x 9.7 cm (5 1/8 x 3 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 2011.56",
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"did_you_know": "This page was part of the prayers for compline or the night prayer said at the end of the day before retiring, usually around 7 p.m.",
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"description": "Books of Hours were Christian devotional books with texts, prayers and psalms for Christian devotion which were written primarily for laymen. They were popular in circles of the rich, educated nobility. Just like this leaf, which was probably made in France at the beginning of the 14th century, the pages of the Books of Hours often show elaborate decoration to invite the reader to take a closer look. After the great plague, individual piety flourished and the Book of Hours also experienced its heyday, especially in France and Flanders.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
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