"Disti saccum meum et circum.../...meos et direxit gressus meos..."; from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexis Hours. Full border of acanthus and rinceaux in gold and colors with birds. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso. Recto: An angel chases a devil with a lance through a field on a clear day; Verso: Two demons walking through a field on a clear day, [perlemet] is written in white ink above them. This leaf is held at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, OH. Parent Manuscript owned by Erza Clark Stillman (1907-95), New York, NY. Likely broken by Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, then sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Durham, NC. Blackburn then gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2005.

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