The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of July 17, 2025
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D
c. 1400
Each leaf: 15.2 x 11.4 cm (6 x 4 1/2 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
Not all books of hours were decorated with conventional historiated initials or full-page miniatures containing figural scenes. The illuminator of this leaf incorporated a more subtle decorative scheme consisting of a large, flower-filled initial D for Deus that gives a focus to the page. A rectangular bar border with ivy leaf sprays punctuated with flowers in the corners flows from this initial. The layout is neat, yet elegant. The palette of orange-reds and pale blues is typically English.- [Graton and Graton, Evanston, Ill.]
- Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 27, cat. no. 19 archive.org
- The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 19, illus. p. 27.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2006.10