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"title": "Leaf from a Book of Hours: Office of the Dead: Angel Chasing a Devil (recto) and Two Devils (verso)",
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"inscription": "[consci]disti saccum meum et circum-\ndedisti me Laetitia.\nUt cantet tibi gloria mea\nEt non conpungar Domine deus\nMeus in aeternum confitebor tibi.\nAnt. Domine abstraxisti ab inferis \nAnimam meam. Ant: Complaceat.\nEt exaudivit preces meas: et\neduxit me de lacumiseriar, et de\nluto faecis.\nEt Statuit supra petram Pedes\u2026\n\u2026meos: et direxit gressus meos.\nEt inmisit in os meum canti-\nCum novum carmen Deo nostro.\nVidebunt multi et time-\nBunt et sperabunt in Domino.\nBeautus vir cuius est nomen\nDomini spes ipsius et non respexit in\nVanitates et insanias falsas. \nMulta fecisti tu Domine Deus\nmeus mirabilia tua et cofi-\ntationibus tuis non est qui\nsimilissit tibi.\nAdnuntiavi et locutus\u2026",
"inscription_translation": "] \u2026cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:\nTo the end that my glory may sing to thee, and I may not regret: O Lord my God, I will give praise to thee forever.\nAnt. O Lord, thou hast brought forth my soul from hell.\nAnt: May it please thee.\n[Psalm 39] And he heard my prayers: and brought me out of the lake of misery, and the mire of dregs.\nAnd hath set my feet\u2026\n\u2026upon a rock: and hath directed my steps.\nAnd he hath put a new song into my mouth: a meter unto our God.\nMany shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in our Lord.\nBlessed is the man, whose trust is the name of our Lord: and hath not had regard to vanities, and false madness.\nThou hast done many marvelous things O Lord my God: and in thy cogitations there is none that may be like to thee.\nI have declared, and have spoken:\u2026",
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"description": "The elaborate floral and foliated borders of this leaf, decorating the top, bottom, and sides of both recto and verso, contain four separate elements: blue and gold acanthus leaves, gold-leaf ivy vines, sprays of flowers or fruit, and a grotesque. Here the margin prominently includes an illuminated roundel with an angel chasing a devil with a lance. As a time-saving device, illuminators in the 1450s and later would often paint identical borders on both sides of a leaf. The motifs would be drawn on one side and then traced on the other by holding the leaf against a window. The manuscript from which this leaf came is no longer intact. It included numerous painted roundels relating to the lives of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the more obscure Saint Alexis. It is possible that the manuscript originally belonged to a married couple for whom these saints served as patrons.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 52, cat. no. 49",
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