id: 111528 accession number: 1930.105 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.105 updated: 2025-03-20 11:10:54.882000 Initial G[audeamus omnes] from a Gradual: The Court of Heaven, 1371–77. Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (Italian, 1339–1399). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 38.6 x 36.5 cm (15 3/16 x 14 3/8 in.); framed: 68.9 x 53 cm (27 1/8 x 20 7/8 in.); matted: 63.5 x 47.6 cm (25 x 18 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1930.105 title: Initial G[audeamus omnes] from a Gradual: The Court of Heaven title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1371–77 creation date earliest: 1371 creation date latest: 1377 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Florence, 14th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (Italian, 1339–1399) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 38.6 x 36.5 cm (15 3/16 x 14 3/8 in.); Framed: 68.9 x 53 cm (27 1/8 x 20 7/8 in.); Matted: 63.5 x 47.6 cm (25 x 18 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400 opening date: 1962-10-23T04:00:00 The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 23-December 2, 1962). title: Gothic Art 1360-1440 opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00 Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963). title: Exhibition of Sienese and Florentine Manuscripts opening date: 1965-02-24T05:00:00 Exhibition of Sienese and Florentine Manuscripts. Wildenstein & Co., London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (February 24-April 10, 1965). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). title: Italian Renaissance Illuminations opening date: 1973-12-16T05:00:00 Italian Renaissance Illuminations. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (organizer) (December 16, 1973-February 15, 1974). title: The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art opening date: 1993-09-25T04:00:00 The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993). title: Illuminated Manuscripts opening date: 2004-10-10T00:00:00 Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 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). title: The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection opening date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00 The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). title: Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2015-12-10T05:00:00 Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 10, 2015-December 12, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (January 27-March 13, 1949).', 'opening_date': '1949-01-27T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles County Museum, California (November 25, 1953-January 9, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1953-11-25T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The International Style, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (October 23-December 2, 1962).', 'opening_date': '1962-10-23T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Art of Painting in Florence and Siena from 1250 to 1500, Wildenstein & Co., London, England (1965).', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Italian Renaissance Illuminations, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (December 16, 1973-February 15, 1974).', 'opening_date': '1973-12-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paintings and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (November 18, 1994-February 26, 1995).', 'opening_date': '1994-11-18T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE W.Y. Ottley (London, 1838, no. 182); Edouard Kann, Paris. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. page number: no. 135, p. 58, repr. pl. XIII url: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, January 27-March 13. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949. page number: cat. no. 175, p. 64, repr. pl. LXVII url: Milliken, William. "Miniatures by Lorenzo Monaco and Francesco del Cherico." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 3 (March 1950): 43-46. page number: Mentioned: p. 44 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141618 Los Angeles County Calif. Museum, Los Angeles. Mediaeval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts; A Loan Exhibition, November 25, 1953-January 9, 1954. 1953. page number: no. 100 url: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.). The International Style: The Arts in Europe Around 1400; [Exhibition]: October 23-December 2, 1962, / B. [Baltimore, Md.]: Walters Art Gallery, 1962. page number: no. 74, p. 75 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. A Missal for a King: Gothic Art, 1360-1440 [Cleveland]: [The Museum], 1963. page number: p. 181 url: “Gothic Art 1360-1440.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (September 1963): 174–215. page number: Reproduced: p. 181, no. 59; Mentioned: p. 209, no. 59 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 Gore, St. John, and Denys Sutton. The Art of Painting in Florence & Siena from 1250 to 1500; A Loan Exhibition, 24 February-10 April 1965, Wildenstein. [London]: [Wildenstein], 1965. page number: p. 12, no. 19 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 57 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n81 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 57 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n81 Pillsbury, Edmund P. Florence and the Arts; Five Centuries of Patronage. 1971. page number: no. 44 url: High Museum of Art. Italian Renaissance Illuminations: December 14, 1973-February 15, 1974, the High Museum of Art. [Atlanta]: [High Museum of Art], 1973. page number: cat. no. 21, repr. fig 6 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 65 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n85 Kanter, Laurence B. Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994. page number: url: 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. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 270-271, no. 102 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. "Initial Impressions: Stop by gallery 115 to see lavishly illuminated Italian choral books of the Renaissance.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 16-17. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 16. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.105/1930.105_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.105/1930.105_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.105/1930.105_full.tif