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.
Provenance
Carlton R. Richmond; [Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 30 October 1981, lot 54] (30 October 1981); [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]; Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art (-2011); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2011-)
Accession Number
2011.65.b
Medium
ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum
Dimensions
Leaf: 19.5 x 13 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Classification
Manuscript
Credit Line
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection