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"title": "Leaf from a Psalter: The Crucifixion",
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"description": "The diocese of Li\u00e8ge was extremely active as a production center for psalters and psalter-hours from the second half of the 1200s through about 1330. This market, no doubt, was stimulated by the need of women for a devotional text. As women were drawn to the convents of religious orders such as the Dominicans, the Beguines and Begards, and the Poor Clares, they had need of a book that would provide them with suitable devotional material. The psalter was the book that these women, many of whom were high-born, most commonly used. The present leaf, with its monumental miniature of the Crucifixion, and like many surviving 13th-century psalters, may have thus provided visual focus for the prayers of a woman in a convent setting. Customarily, the level of quality and the extent to which these books were decorated depended upon the means of the patron.",
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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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"citation": "George, Philippe. Art et Patrimoine en Wallonie des Origines a\u0300 1789: Essai de Synthe\u0300se a\u0300 la Lumie\u0300re des Collections Ame\u0301ricaines et Europe\u0301ennes. Namur: Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 2017.",
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"citation": "Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. The Middle Ages in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.",
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