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Collection Online as of December 17, 2025
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto)
c. 1415
workshop of Boucicaut Master
Leaf: 16 x 11.2 cm (6 5/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2014.21.a
Location: Not on view
Description
This leaf’s illumination includes Saints Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret, all early church saints, virgins, and martyrs. During the 1400s and 1500s, the popularity of female saints increased, as did the literacy rate among women, thanks to books of hours. Saint Genevieve is shown with a candle the devil is trying to extinguish while an angel relights it. Saint Catherine, in the center, holds a palm branch and a sword, with which she was executed. Saint Margaret stands on the dragon from whom she emerged clean and unharmed when the cross she carried irritated the dragon’s innards.- [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]-2014Jeanne Miles Blackburn2014-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. 32, cat. no. 24 archive.org
- The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).Main gallery rotation (Gallery 113): January 26, 2015 -
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