id:			108539
accession number:	1926.245
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1926.245
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Leaf Excised from a "Decretum" by Gratian: Initial C[anonici cuiusdam ecclesiae] with a Seated Cleric, c. 1300–1310. France, Avignon(?), 14th century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 34.3 x 19.7 cm (13 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.245

title:				Leaf Excised from a "Decretum" by Gratian: Initial C[anonici cuiusdam ecclesiae] with a Seated Cleric
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creation date:			c. 1300–1310
creation date earliest:		1300
creation date latest:		1310
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, Avignon(?), 14th century
technique:	ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Sheet: 34.3 x 19.7 cm (13 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art
	opening date:   1991-11-05T05:00:00
	<i>Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-February 2, 1992).

	title:		The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art
	opening date:   1993-09-25T04:00:00
	<i>The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993).

	title:		Illuminated Manuscripts
	opening date:   2004-10-10T00:00:00
	<i>Illuminated Manuscripts</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005).

	title:		The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   2010-11-06T00:00:00
	<i>The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Lord Northwick
	date: ?-1926
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	Lord Northwick, sale 11/16/1926, #127
	date: 1926
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	Durlacher Brothers, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1926
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1926-
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wall description:
Introducing Causa XIV (law case) of the <em>Decretum</em>, this initial <em>C</em> is but one component of a complex decoration scheme. The artist also included a miniature representing an audience scene before a bishop and large drollery (hybrid figure) of a jousting knight beneath the left text column. Both of these devices serve to separate the end of one text and the beginning of another but, in the process, overshadow the initial itself. The script has been identified as by an Italian hand. Because Bologna was the center for the study of canon law at this time, it seems that the codex may have been copied there. The illumination was applied after the undecorated manuscript was carried to France.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Stones, Alison. <em>Some Secular Illustrated Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections</em>. The Cambridge illuminations : the conference papers [S.l.]: [S.n.], 2007.
	page number: 	p. 145, fig. 2
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	Biotta, Maria Alessandra. "Un Manuscrit de Droit Canonique Toulousain Reconstitue Le Decret de Gratien" <em>Art de L'Enluminure </em>24 (March-April-May 2008).
	page number: 	p. 4
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IMAGES

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