id: 112022 accession number: 1930.505 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.505 updated: 2023-08-29 11:33:48.851000 Monstrance with the "Paten of Saint Bernward", c. 1180–1190. Saint Oswald Reliquary Workshop (German). Silver, gilded silver, niello, rock crystal; overall: 34.5 x 15.9 x 14 cm (13 9/16 x 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); part 1: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); part 2: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund with additional gift from Mrs. R. Henry Norweb 1930.505 title: Monstrance with the "Paten of Saint Bernward" title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1180–1190 creation date earliest: 1180 creation date latest: 1190 current location: 106C Medieval Treasury creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund with additional gift from Mrs. R. Henry Norweb copyright: --- culture: paten: Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim; monstrance: Germany, Lower Saxony, Brunswick, Gothic period, paten: 12th century; monstrance: 14th century technique: silver, gilded silver, niello, rock crystal department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Saint Oswald Reliquary Workshop (German) - paten by --- measurements: Overall: 34.5 x 15.9 x 14 cm (13 9/16 x 6 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Part 1: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.); Part 2: 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: located in monstrance: two slivers of the True Cross surrounded by parchment with the inscription: DE SIGILLO DOMINI. Paten inscribed: +EST.CORPVS.IN.SE.PANIS.QVI.FRANGITVR.IN.ME:VIVET.IN ETERNVM. QVI.BENE.SVMIT.EVM. (outer rim); +HVC.SPECTATE. VIRI.SIC.VOS MORIENDO.REDEMI. translation: remark: --- 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: Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur (The Staufer Period: History, Art, Culture) opening date: 1977-03-26T05:00:00 Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur (The Staufer Period: History, Art, Culture). Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany (organizer) (March 26-June 5, 1977). title: Bernward von Hildesheim und das Zeitalter der Ottonen opening date: 1993-08-15T04:00:00 Bernward von Hildesheim und das Zeitalter der Ottonen. Dom-Museum Hildesheim, Germany, Hildesheim, Germany (organizer) (August 15-November 28, 1993); Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany (August 15-November 28, 1993). title: All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection opening date: 1994-11-23T05:00:00 All That Glitters: Great Silver Vessels in Cleveland's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 23, 1994-January 8, 1995). 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: Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe opening date: 2010-10-17T00:00:00 Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011); The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (February 13-May 15, 2011); The British Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (June 23-October 9, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Stuttgart, Würtemburgisches Landesmuseum, Zeit der Staufer I; March-August 1977, no. 577. * Hildesheim, Germany, Diözesanmuseum Hildesheim: Bernward von Hildesheim und das Zeitaltar der Ottonen, August 15-November 28, 1993, no. IX-28, p. 630-32, color repr. p. 631. * Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art" * CMA, October 17, 2010 - January 17, 2011, Walters Art Museum February 13 - May 15, 2011, British Museum June 23 - October 9, 2011: "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe" cat no. 44 --- PROVENANCE Treasury, Cathedral of St. Blaise, Brunswick; House of Brunswick-Lüneburg; (Goldschmidt Galleries, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Designed to facilitate the display and veneration of ten relics, this sumptuous ostensorium (from the Latin ostendere, meaning "to show") is one of the most unusual reliquaries in the Guelph Treasure. Elements of contemporary Gothic architecture in miniature frame an elaborately decorated liturgical paten, the shallow disc or plate used for the elevation of the Eucharist during Mass. Fragments of the True Cross are enclosed behind a rock crystal in the gable, while other saintly relics, each wrapped in silk and identified by inscriptions, are visible only from the back. The paten is inscribed on its outer rim with the words "The bread which is broken in me is the body itself. He who receives it in good faith shall live in eternity." Another inscription surrounding the image of the enthroned Christ at the paten's center, reads, "Behold, o men, I have thus redeemed you with my death." Symbols of the four Evangelists and personifications of the four cardinal virtues complete the paten's iconographic program. --- RELATED WORKS id: 112021 Medallion with the Bust of Christ ("The Cumberland Medallion"), from the Guelph Treasure, late 700s. Germany, Weserraum, Migration period, late 8th century. Cloisonné enamel and gold on copper; diameter: 5.1 x 0.2 cm (2 x 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1930.504 relationship: id: 112316 Arm Reliquary of the Apostles, c. 1190. Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Romanesque period, late 12th century. Gilt silver, champlevé enamel, oak; overall: 51 x 14 x 9.2 cm (20 1/16 x 5 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.739 relationship: id: 112318 The So-called Horn of Saint Blaise, 1100–1200. South Italy or Sicily, 12th century. Ivory; overall: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.740 relationship: id: 112319 Book-Shaped Reliquary, c. 1000. Circle of The Master of the Registrum Gregorii (German, active c. 972–1000). Ivory, silver: gilded, pearls, rubies, emeralds, crystals, onyx, carnelian, oak; overall: 31.6 x 24.4 x 7.5 cm (12 7/16 x 9 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.); part 1: 17.8 x 14 cm (7 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1930.741 relationship: id: 112958 Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude, 1038 or shortly after. Germany, Lower Saxony?, 11th century. Gold: worked in repoussé; cloisonné enamel, intaglio gems, pearls, wood core; overall: 24.2 x 21.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund with the addition of a gift from Mrs. Edward B. Greene 1931.55 relationship: id: 112971 Monstrance with a Relic of Saint Sebastian, 1484. Germany, Lower Saxony, Brunswick, Gothic period, 15th century. Gilded silver, rock crystal; overall: 47 cm (18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Julius F. Goldschmidt, Z. M. Hackenbroch, and J. Rosenbaum in memory of the Exhibition of the Guelph Treasure held in the Cleveland Museum of Art from 10 January to 1 February 1931 1931.65 relationship: id: 112875 Ceremonial Cross of Count Liudolf, shortly after 1038. Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Gold: worked in repoussé; cloisonné enamel; intaglio gems; pearls; wood core; overall: 24.2 x 21.6 cm (9 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.461 relationship: id: 112876 Portable Altar of Countess Gertrude, c. 1045. Germany, Lower Saxony?, Romanesque period, 11th century. Gold, cloisonné enamel, porphyry, gems, pearls, niello, wood core; overall: 10.5 x 27.5 x 21 cm (4 1/8 x 10 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1931.462 relationship: --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 100 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n32 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. 49 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n73 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. 49 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n71 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. 54 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n74 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. 124-125, no. 39 url: Bagnoli, Martina. Treasures of heaven: saints, relics, and devotion in medieval Europe. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010. page number: Reproduced: fig. 51, p. 143 url: Inglis, Erik. "Remembering and Forgetting Suger at Saint-Denis, 1151-1534: An Abbot's Reputation". Gesta 54, no. 2 (Fall 2015). page number: Mentioned: p. 219-243; Reproduced: p. 240, fig. 9 url: Beuckers, Klaus Gereon. "Istam Patenuam Fecit Sanctus Berwardus. Zum Ostensorium mit der Bernwardpatene aus dem Welfenschatz im Cleveland Museum of Art." In Typen mittelalterlicher Reliquiare zwischen Innovation und Tradition: Beiträge einer Tagung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel am 22. Oktober 2016. Klaus Gereon Beuckers, and Dorothee Kemper, 211-221. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner; Hildesheim: Bernward.Medien, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 212, Abb. 67, 68 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.505/1930.505_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.505/1930.505_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.505/1930.505_full.tif