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Textile Fragment

13th century

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Spain, Mudejar, 13th century

Compound twill: silk, gold and linen

Overall: 26.5 x 60.7 cm (10 7/16 x 23 7/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.4.a

Location

not on view

Provenance

originally from cope belonging to Abbot Arnaldo de Biure of the Benedictine Abbey of San Cugat del Valles near Barcelona. (Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles).

Citations

Gertrude Underhill. "Two Regensburg Brocades." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 7 (1929): 127-35. p. 127-129 www.jstor.org

Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Thirteenth-Century Textile." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 6 (1948): 111-15. p. 111-112 www.jstor.org

New York University. Spanish Medieval Art. Loan Exhibition in Honor of Dr. Walter W.S. Cook. 1954. p. 22, no. 71

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 122 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 219 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 219 archive.org

Exhibition history

Spanish Medieval Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, New York (December 15, 1954-January 30, 1955).