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Historiated Initial (G) Excised from a Choir Book: St. Gregory the Great Celebrating Mass

c. 1300

Italy, Bologna

(?)
tempera on parchment
Sheet: 22.9 x 14 cm (9 x 5 1/2 in.)
Gift from J. H. Wade 1924.1010
Location: Not on view
  • (Durlacher Brothers, NY)
  • W. M. M. “Illuminated Miniatures in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12, no. 4 (April 1925): 61–71. Mentioned: p. 63; Reproduced: p. 65, a www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 48 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 48 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 62 archive.org
    Winter, Patrick M. de. “Bolognese Miniatures at the Cleveland Museum.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 8 (October 1983): 314–51. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 321, fig. 10 www.jstor.org
  • The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993).
    CMA: The Decorated Letter and The Illuminator's Art, September 25-December 19, 1993, no cat.
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