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    "title": "Text, folio 412 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries",
    "description": "Each of the four gospels in this book opens on a page with brilliantly illuminated borders depicting the author of the text as well as birds—principally peacocks, symbols of the immortality of the soul—and fountains, representing the fountain of life and the salvation of the soul. This volume consists of 428 leaves with texts in Greek. Its level of sophistication suggests that it was probably written and decorated in a monastery in Constantinople.",
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    "tombstone": "Text, folio 412 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries, c. 1000–1100. Byzantium, Constantinople. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding; sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.152.412.b",
    "collection": "MED - Byzantine",
    "relatedWorks": [
        {
            "id": 121698,
            "description": "Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew, 1057–1063. Byzantium, Constantinople. Tempera and gold on vellum; sheet: 28.8 x 24.3 cm (11 5/16 x 9 9/16 in.); framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.1512"
        },
        {
            "id": 121697,
            "description": "Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Luke, 1057–1063. Byzantium, Constantinople. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; sheet: 28.9 x 22.6 cm (11 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.1511"
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    "citations": [
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            "citation": "Clark, Kenneth Willis. <em>A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America</em>. Chicago, Ill: The University of Chicago Press, 1937.",
            "page_number": "pp. 122-23"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M. “Byzantine Manuscript Illumination” <em>ClevelandMuseum of Art Bulletin</em>34 (March 1947)",
            "page_number": "pp. 50-56"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M. “Early Christian and Byzantine Art in America” <em>Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism </em>Vol. V (June 1947)",
            "page_number": "pp. 256-68"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Diehl, Charles, Naomi Walford, and Peter Charanis. <em>Byzantium: Greatness and Decline</em>. 1957.",
            "page_number": "p. 231"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ricci, Seymour de, William Jerome Wilson, Christopher Urdahl Faye, and William Henry Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: In the United States and Canada. New York, N.Y.: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.",
            "page_number": "p. 428"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947.",
            "page_number": "p. 138"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 40",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n64"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 40",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n62"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 42",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n62"
        }
    ],
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