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Title: Leaf from a Book of Hours
Artist: Artist Unknown, France
Physical Description: This manuscript page contains a column of Latin text surrounded by generous margins. A pair of slender flowers with small green leaves run the length of the text along the left margin. Three decorated initials appear on the left edge of the text block. Each initial is painted gold on a pink and blue ground with white scrollwork and enclosed within a frame. Two rectangular line-fillers, colored pink and blue with white scrollwork, appear in the right half of the text column.
Century: 15th century
Object Creation Date: 1400-1425
Accession Number: 1993/2.9
Medium and Support: ink, tempera and gold on parchment
relevance: rank 18.65600
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift in memory of Mrs. John Alexander

Title: Leaf from a book of hours with a funeral mass
Artist: Gold Scrolls Group
Physical Description: This miniature painting depicts a group of male figures gathered around a coffin draped with a blue cloth. Two pairs of candles set on tall candlesticks are placed at the head and foot of the coffin. To the left of the coffin stand four mourners wearing long gray robes with hoods. Facing them from the other side of the coffin are three tonsured clergymen dressed in white, who look at an open book placed before them. The group stands upon a green tiled floor next to a pink wall. The background is painted red and decorated with an exuberant pattern of gold scrolling foliage motifs.
Artist Life Dates: active circa 1415-1450
Century: 15th century
Object Creation Date: 1415-1455
Accession Number: 1993/2.8
Medium and Support: ink, tempera, gold, and silver alloy on parchment
relevance: rank 18.65600
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift in memory of Mrs. John Alexander

Title: Leaf from a Bible with Daniel in the lions' den aided by the prophet Habakuk
Artist: Artist Unknown, France
Physical Description: Two columns of Latin text fill this page taken from a bible manuscript. A painting in a gold rectangular frame is located in the lower right column. An angel descends from a blue semicircular disc in the upper right corner of the painting and grasps a larger figure by the hair with both hands. This second figure holds a jug in his left hand and a plate with bread in his right. A third figure, dressed in a white robe, reaches up toward this larger figure from an enclosure below. He appears against a black background and four gray animal heads overlap his torso.
Century: 13th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1290
Accession Number: 1993/2.10
Medium and Support: ink, tempera and gold on parchment
relevance: rank 18.65600
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift in memory of Mrs. John Alexander

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