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"title": "Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto) and Calendar Page with Peasant (verso)",
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"description": "Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Pea Vines and a Girl Kneading Bread (recto) and Ornamental Boarder with Carnations, a Thistle, and a Cook Ladling Soup (verso) (1 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1524. Germany, Hildesheim(?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 1999.136",
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"description": "Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Initial E with Ornamental Border Containing a Seated Satyr and a Bird Eating Grapes (recto) and Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1524. North Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 2006.15",
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"description": "Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Rabbits Dancing (recto) and Putto Picking Strawberries (verso), c. 1524. Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; sheet: 16.5 x 13.5 cm (6 1/2 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund, 2022.101",
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"description": "These three leaves represent the charming, intricate decoration found throughout the parent volume, its leaves now dispersed. Virtually every border, recto and verso, was decorated with liquid gold and highlighted with a variety of flowers, fruits, and vegetables\u2014carnations, thistles, roses, violets, peas, melons\u2014as well as cornucopias, satyrs, masks, insects, birds, etc. The decoration is particularly charming because of the little vignettes within the borders. These motifs depict a girl kneading bread, a cook ladling soup, a goose nibbling grapes off a vine, and a satyr with a horn. Such details would have been a sumptuous delight to the original owner. This was a highly personalized volume, apparently written and illuminated in North Germany. The prominent mention of Saint Godehard (died 1038), Bishop of Hildesheim, in the original manuscript suggests that it was produced in that city.",
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"citation": "Schilling, Rosy, and Georg Swarzenski. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz. Frankfurt a.M.: J. Baer, 1929.",
"page_number": "no.151 pp.181\u201383",
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"citation": "Sotheby's (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. 1987.",
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"citation": "Jo\u0308rn Gu\u0308nther Antiquariat (Firm), and Jo\u0308rn-Uwe Gu\u0308nther. Recent Acquisitions: Medieval & Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Hamburg: Jo\u0308rn Gu\u0308nther Antiquariat, 1997.",
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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. 67, cat. no. 65",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n79"
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"citation": "Bloomsbury Auctions (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures: Wednesday July 6, 2022 (2022).",
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"1 of Three Leaves from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Peasant (recto)",
"Courting: Gemini, miniature of the labor of the month and the zodiac sign in an illuminated full border containing a cat and mouse, text in Latin with later additions in French, from a prayerbook (Calendar: May)",
"Three Leaves from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page (Beginning of May) with Labors of the Month (Courting) and Zodiacal (Gemini) Vignettes"
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