The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 15, 2025
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for June (verso)
c. 1510
Leaf: 19.5 x 13 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.65.b
Location: Not on view
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It is believed that medieval men and women read their books of hours aloud, not silently.Description
On this calendar page, June is illustrated with the month’s labor of gathering hay. One figure cuts hay with a scythe while the other uses a rake to gather it. Also featured is a crab, signifying the month’s zodiac sign, Cancer. In this lavishly decorated leaf, the most important feast days are listed in gold, while other days are in alternating red and blue inks. The original manuscript containing this leaf was whole as late as the 1980s, and today its leaves can be found in museums around the country.- Carlton R. Richmond30 October 1981[Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 30 October 1981, lot 54][Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]-2011Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art2011-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. 64, cat. no. 62 archive.org
- The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).
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