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Collection Online as of December 10, 2019

Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion

c. 1480

Bohemia or Silesia, 15th century

Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

Sheet: 22.9 x 15.9 cm (9 x 6 1/4 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1949.205

Location

not on view

Description

In addition to the Virgin and St. John, this image includes a kneeling bishop (probably the donor of the manuscript) and a kneeling Carthusian monk along the lower right-hand edge. The manuscript may have been commissioned by this unknown bishop-donor and given to a Carthusian monastery with which he had some connection. Bishops frequently donated manuscripts to ecclesiastical foundations during the Middle Ages.

Provenance
?-1943
Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, sold to Joseph Brummer
1943-1949
Joseph Brummer, NY
1949
Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1949-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. N5712 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org
Exhibition history

The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); "Illuminated Manuscripts"

Cleveland Museum of Art, (11/06/2010 - 04/17/2011); "The Glory Of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collections"

Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 6-September 15, 1963).

Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-February 2, 1992).

Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005).

The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).

Source URL: https://cmaweb23-bbn-2.clevelandart.org/art/1949.205