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Single Leaf Excised from a Gospel Book with Initial L[iber generationis]: St. Matthew (verso)

c. 1190

Part of a set. See all set records

Germany, Helmarshausen Abbey, 12th century

Ink, tempera, silver, and gold on vellum

Sheet: 34.3 x 23.3 cm (13 1/2 x 9 3/16 in.); Framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); Matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1933.445.b

Location

not on view

Description

This leaf comes from a volume that is preserved in the Trier Cathedral Library in Germany (Codex 142).

Provenance
Cathedral of Paderborn(?)
1777
Convent of Kemnade, Westphalia
Count von Kesselstadt
Private Collection, Westphalia (until 1933)
Cathedral of Paderborn(?); Convent of Kemnade, Westphalia (1777); Count von Kesselstadt; Private Collection, Westphalia (until 1933)
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 105 archive.org
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 119-121, no. 37
Exhibition history

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, "Arts of the Middle Ages 1000-1400", 1940; p. 8, no.22, pl. XIX.

Cincinnati, The Taft Museum; "Medieval Art from XII to XV Xenturies," December 1948-January 1949.

Winnepeg Art Gallery, Canada; December 4, 1951-February 11, 1952.

The Cleveland Museum of Art: "The Helmarshausen Latin Gospel" March-June, 1959.

Berkely, CA, University Art Gallery: "Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the early XVIth century" April 5, 1963-June 18, 1963; cat. no. 4, p. 12-13, repr. pl. I.

Buffalo, Albright Knox Gallery: 12/2/1964-01/19/1965.

Domplatz, Germany, Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Castle Corvey: "Kunst und Kultur im Weserraum 800-1600" May 15-September 15, 1966, p. 508, no. 194.

Westfallen, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte: "Kunst und Kultur im Wesserraum 800-1600" 1966, no. 194.

New York, The Metropolitan Musuem of Art: "The Year 1200" 01/12/1970-05/29/1970, no. 265.

Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Museum: "Stadt im Wandel, Kunst und Kultur des Burgertums in Norddeutschland" 08/24/1985-11/12/1985.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, "The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art," September 25-December 19, 1993.

Braunschweig, Germany, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, "Heinrich der Lowe und Seine Zeit Herrschaft und Reprasentation der Welfen 1125-1235" August 6, 1995-November 12, 1995.

The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); "Illuminated Manuscripts"

Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"

Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963).

Die Kunst und Kultur und der Weser in der Zeit von 800 bis 1600. Corvey Castle, Corvey, Höxter, Germany (May 15-September 15, 1966).

Stadt im Wandel: Kunst und Kultur des Bürgertums in Norddeutschland (City in Transition: Art and Culture of the Bourgeoisie in Northern Germany). Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, Germany (organizer) (August 24-November 24, 1985).

Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005).

Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).

Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 15, 2021-January 23, 2022) https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/imperial-splendor.

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