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Miniature Excised from a Compendium in historiae genealogia Christi by Peter Poitiers: The Sacrifice of Isaac

Miniature Excised from a Compendium in historiae genealogia Christi by Peter Poitiers: The Sacrifice of Isaac

1200–1250

workshop of William de Brailes

(English, active c. 1230)
England, London, 13th century
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Sheet: 14 x 9.2 cm (5 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1954.388
Location: not on view
  • -1954
    Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1954-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Kostbare Buchminiaturen der deutschen, französischen und italienischen Schulen des 13. bis 16. Jahrhunderts, englische und französische Farbstiche des 18. Jahrhunderts ..., Sportblätter von Alken, Harris, Morland, Pollard u.a.: am 10. Dezember 1928. Berlin: Graupe, 1928. nr. 7, Tafel 5
    Milliken, William M. “A Miniature Attributed to W. De Brailes.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 43, no. 3 (1956). pp. 43-44 www.jstor.org
    Griffith, Beatrice Fox. Treasures Under Glass: Examples of the Arts and Crafts from the British Isles. Pennsylvania: Stackpole, 1963. p. 89
    Wixom, William D. “Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. A Catalogue to the Exhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 3 (1964). p. 49 www.jstor.org
    De Winter, Patrick M. “Visions of the Apocalypse in Medieval England and France.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 10 (1983). p. 416, n. 7 www.jstor.org
    Tanis, James, and Jennifer A. Thompson. Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections. Philadelphia Pa: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. pp. 196-98
    Korteweg, A. S. Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts and Incunabula at Huis Bergh Castle in 's-Heerenberg. 's-Heerenbergh: Stichting Huis Bergh, 2013. p. 226
  • Late Medieval Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (October 3-November 26, 1958).
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