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Leaves from a Volume of Johannes Andrea's "Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis: Table of Affinity and Table of Consanguinity"

Leaves from a Volume of Johannes Andrea's "Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis: Table of Affinity and Table of Consanguinity"

c. 1331
(Italian)
Italy, Bologna
ink, tempera and gold on vellum
Sheet: 24.5 x 17.1 cm (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Freudenheim in memory of Otto Ege 1982.139
Location: not on view

Description

The two leaves shown here come from Iohannes Andrea's widely circulated treatise on marriage impediments. The writer lived until 1348 and is known as the most learned of the lay canonists of the Middle Ages. He taught for nearly fifty years at the University of Bologna, where his lectures on both canon and Roman law made him famous.
  • Otto Ege, Cleveland
    Otto Ege, Cleveland
  • Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3–55.
    Published as: The First Parents: Adam and Eve Mentioned: p. 50, no. 7; Reproduced: p. 9 www.jstor.org
    Winter, Patrick M. de. “Bolognese Miniatures at the Cleveland Museum.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 8 (October 1983): 314–351. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 316-318, figs. 3 and 4 www.jstor.org
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