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"description": "Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man (Prefatory Miniature to the Office of the Virgin) (recto) and Text with Illustrated Border (verso) (1 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1510. France, Rouen. Ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum; each leaf: 17.9 x 12.8 cm (7 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 2001.79",
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"Three Leaves from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for June with Reaping and Zodiacal Symbol for Cancer"
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