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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto) and Text with Illustrated Border (verso) (3 of 3 Excised Leaves)
c. 1510
Leaf: 19.5 x 13 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Location: not on view
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Part of a book of hours, this miniature opens the prayers to be recited at sext, or the sixth hour of the day.Description
Architectural frames, as in this miniature, became popular with the reception of Renaissance motifs north of the Alps. Winged putti, urns, garlands, masks, and scallop shells surround the main scene. These elements could be assembled in different ways so no two margins were identical. The figures themselves are still Gothic in style, with stiff folds in their clothes’ drapery. Rouen in the late 1400s and early 1500s was an established and important center of book production. Richly decorated literary texts and books of hours, such as the one which held this leaf, were made for sale next to the cathedral.- Carlton R. RichmondOctober 30, 1981[Sotheby's, New York, NY 30 October 1981, lot 54][Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]-2011Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL and Durham, NC, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art2011-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Sotheby's (Firm). Highly Important Illuminated Manuscripts. 1981. Lot 54Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 66, cat. no. 64 archive.org
- The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.66