Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Peasant (verso), c. 1524. Germany, Hildesheim (), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.). This leaf and three others in the collection represent the charming, intricate decoration found throughout the parent volume, its leaves now dispersed. Virtually every border, recto and verso, was decorated with liquid gold and highlighted with a variety of flowers, fruits, and vegetables—carnations, thistles, roses, violets, peas, melons—as well as cornucopias, satyrs, masks, insects, birds, etc. The decoration is particularly charming because of the little vignettes within the borders. These motifs depict a girl kneading bread, a cook ladling soup, a goose nibbling grapes off a vine, and a satyr with a horn. Such details would have been a sumptuous delight to the original owner. This was a highly personalized volume, apparently written and illuminated in North Germany. The prominent