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Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Massacre of the Innocents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)
c. 1300–1330
Each leaf: 13 x 9.7 cm (5 1/8 x 3 13/16 in.)
Location: not on view
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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.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.- [Bruce Ferrini (1949-2010), Akron, OH, sold to Mrs. Jeanne Miles Blackburn]?-1999Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn (Durham, NC), gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art1999-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 26, cat. no. 17 archive.org
- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.126