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Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto); Text (verso)

c. 1415

Part of a set. See all set records

workshop of Boucicaut Master

(French, Paris, active about 1410–25)

France, Paris, 15th century

Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

Folio: 16.8 x 12.7 cm (6 5/8 x 5 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.79.1

Location

115 Manuscripts & Textiles

Inscriptions

Inscription

Deus in adiutorium meum intende. Domine, ad adiuvandum me festina.

Inscription Translation

O Lord, make speed to save me. O Lord, make haste to help me.

Inscription Remark

Verso 1: Sext

Provenance

-1955

Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1955-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Allen Memorial Art Museum. An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination, April 22 Thorugh May 12. 1960. Cat. no. 10 a-d

Gothic Art 1360-1440. (1963). The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 50(7). no. 13, p. 188 www.jstor.org

Meiss, Millard, Kathleen Morand, and Edith W. Kirsch. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Boucicaut Master. 1968. p. 139

Exhibition history

Netherlandish Illumination, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 22-May 12, 1960).

Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).

The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).