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Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Pea Vines and a Girl Kneading Bread (recto) and Ornamental Boarder with Carnations, a Thistle, and a Cook Ladling Soup (verso) (1 of 3 Excised Leaves)
c. 1524
Each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
This leaf and others in the collection were excised from the same prayer book. They reveal the charm of secular decoration such as satyrs or domestic activities like cooking. Such details would have been a sumptuous delight to the original owner. The original book was a highly personalized volume apparently written and illuminated in North Germany as suggested by internal textual references. The prominent inclusion of Saint Godehard (died 1038), Bishop of Hildesheim, in the calendar (not visible) would suggest that the manuscript was produced in that city.- 1500sMansfeld Family, Prussia, between Magdeburg and Merseburg, GermanyMid 1500sAdrienne Louvignies Family1800sCompte d'Aspremont-Lynden-1892Brothers Michael Linel (1830-1892) and Albert Linel (1833-1916) of Frankfurt am Main, Germany1892-1953City of Frankfurt, Germany, for the Kunstgewerbemuseum, deaccessioned parent manuscriptJune 23, 1987[Sale: Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1987, lot 99, sold to Pairvel]1987-Pairvel[Jörn Günther, Hamburg, Germany][Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]-2011Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Durham, NC, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art2011-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Schilling, Rosy, and Georg Swarzenski. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz. Frankfurt a.M.: J. Baer, 1929. no.151 pp.181–83Sotheby's (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. 1987. Lot 99Jörn Günther Antiquariat (Firm), and Jörn-Uwe Günther. Recent Acquisitions: Medieval & Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Hamburg: Jörn Günther Antiquariat, 1997.Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 69, cat. no. 67 archive.orgBloomsbury Auctions (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures: Wednesday July 6, 2022 (2022). Lot 114
- Main gallery rotation (Gallery 113): January 26, 2015 -
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.136