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Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto) and Calendar Page with Peasant (verso)
c. 1524
Leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
These three leaves represent the charming, intricate decoration found throughout the parent volume, its leaves now dispersed. Virtually every border, recto and verso, was decorated with liquid gold and highlighted with a variety of flowers, fruits, and vegetables—carnations, thistles, roses, violets, peas, melons—as well as cornucopias, satyrs, masks, insects, birds, etc. The decoration is particularly charming because of the little vignettes within the borders. These motifs depict a girl kneading bread, a cook ladling soup, a goose nibbling grapes off a vine, and a satyr with a horn. Such details would have been a sumptuous delight to the original owner. This was a highly personalized volume, apparently written and illuminated in North Germany. The prominent mention of Saint Godehard (died 1038), Bishop of Hildesheim, in the original manuscript suggests that it was produced in that city.- 1500sMansfeld Family, Prussia, between Magdeburg and Merseburg, GermanyMid 1500sAdrienne Louvignies Family1800sCompte d'Aspremont-Lynden-1892Brothers Michael Linel (1830-1892) and Albert Linel (1833-1916) of Frankfurt am Main, Germany1892-1953City of Frankfurt, Germany, for the Kunstgewerbemuseum, deaccessioned parent manuscriptJune 23, 1987[Sale: Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1987, lot 99, sold to Pairvel]1987-Pairvel[Jörn Günther, Hamburg, Germany][Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]-2011Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Durham, NC, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art2011-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Schilling, Rosy, and Georg Swarzenski. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz. Frankfurt a.M.: J. Baer, 1929. no.151 pp.181–83Sotheby's (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. 1987. Lot 99Jörn Günther Antiquariat (Firm), and Jörn-Uwe Günther. Recent Acquisitions: Medieval & Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Hamburg: Jörn Günther Antiquariat, 1997.Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 67, cat. no. 65 archive.orgBloomsbury Auctions (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures: Wednesday July 6, 2022 (2022). Lot 114
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.67