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Leaf Excised from a "Decretum" by Gratian: Initial C[anonici cuiusdam ecclesiae] with a Seated Cleric
c. 1300–1310
Sheet: 34.3 x 19.7 cm (13 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.245
Location: not on view
Description
Introducing Causa XIV (law case) of the Decretum, this initial C is but one component of a complex decoration scheme. The artist also included a miniature representing an audience scene before a bishop and large drollery (hybrid figure) of a jousting knight beneath the left text column. Both of these devices serve to separate the end of one text and the beginning of another but, in the process, overshadow the initial itself. The script has been identified as by an Italian hand. Because Bologna was the center for the study of canon law at this time, it seems that the codex may have been copied there. The illumination was applied after the undecorated manuscript was carried to France.- ?-1926Lord Northwick1926Lord Northwick, sale 11/16/1926, #1271926Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1926-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Stones, Alison. Some Secular Illustrated Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections. The Cambridge illuminations : the conference papers [S.l.]: [S.n.], 2007. p. 145, fig. 2Biotta, Maria Alessandra. "Un Manuscrit de Droit Canonique Toulousain Reconstitue Le Decret de Gratien" Art de L'Enluminure 24 (March-April-May 2008). p. 4
- The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005).The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993).Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-February 2, 1992).
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