Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for June (verso)

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-)

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for June (verso)

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c. 1510

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

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection