id: 112319 accession number: 1930.741 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.741 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:18.645000 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 title: Book-Shaped Reliquary title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1000 creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1025 current location: creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: Ivory: Ottonian, Lorrain; Frame: Germany, Lower Saxony, Brunswick, Gothic period, 14th century technique: ivory, silver: gilded, pearls, rubies, emeralds, crystals, onyx, carnelian, oak department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * The Master of the Registrum Gregorii (German, active c. 972–1000) - artist --- measurements: 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.) 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: 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: Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500 opening date: 2021-10-15T04:00:00 Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 15, 2021-January 23, 2022) https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/imperial-splendor. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art (1991), p. no. 91.', 'opening_date': '1991-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Treasury, Cathedral of St. Blaise, Brunswick date: footnotes: citations: House of Brunswick-Lüneburg date: footnotes: citations: (Goldschmidt Galleries, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1930 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1930- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- 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: 112022 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 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: 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 Neumann, Wilhelm Anton, and Wenzel August Neumann. Der Reliquienschatz des Hauses Braundschweig-Lüneburg. Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1891. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 232-236, no. 37 url: Goldschmidt, Adolph, Paul Gustav Hübner, and Otto Homburger. Die Elfenbeinskulpturen. Berlin: B. Cassirer, 1914. page number: Mentioned: Vol. 1, P. 29; Reproduced: Vol. 1, Taf. XXII url: "The Great Guelph Treasure to go to America?" The Illustrated London News (January 12, 1929): 45. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 45 url: Falke, Otto von, Robert Schmidt, Georg Swarzenski, and Silvia M. Welsh. The Guelph Treasure. The Sacred Relics of Brunswick Cathedral Formerly in the Possession of the Ducal House of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Frankfurt/Main: Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt, 1930. page number: Mentioned: P. 45-46, 83-84, 173-175; Reproduced: Pl. 6, 82-83 url: W. M. M. "The Acquisition of Six Objects from the Guelph Treasure for the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 9 (November 1930): 165-83. page number: Reproduced: P. 172-173; Mentioned: P. 176-177 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137332 "Guelph Treasures Sold to America: Medieval Art for Ohio." The Illustrated London News (November 29, 1930): 982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 982 url: Milliken, William M. "The Guelph Treasure." The American Magazine of Art 22, no. 3 (March 1931): 163-72. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 172-173 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23935911 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. 98 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n31 Foreville, Raymonde. Le Jubilé de Saint Thomas Becket: du XIIIe au XVe siècle, 1220-1470, Etude et Documents. Paris: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1958. page number: Reproduced: Pl. 12 url: "Gothic Art 1360-1440." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (September 1963): 174-215. page number: Mentioned: P. 208, no. 53 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960 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. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n69 Swarzenski, Hanns. Monuments of Romanesque Art: The Art of Church Treasures in North-Western Europe. London: Faber, 1967. page number: Mentioned: P. 39, no. 14; reproduced: Pl. 14, fig. 33 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art,1967. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 83 url: 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. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n67 Munro, Thomas. Form and Style in the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetic Morphology. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970. page number: Reproduced: Pl. 17 url: Lasko, Peter. Ars Sacra, 800-1200. [Harmondsworth, Eng.]: Penguin Books, 1972. page number: Mentioned: P. 81, P. 120, P. 291, n. 6; Reproduced: Pl. 115 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. 50 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n70 Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg, and B. A. R. Carter. Piero Della Francesca's Baptism of Christ. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 84-85, fig. 39 url: James Murphy, "Ottonian or Romanesque: Two Ivory Carvings from Liège," Athanor I (1981): 13-18. page number: Mentioned: P. 13-14; Reproduced: P. 16, fig. 1 url: De Winter, Patrick M. "The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (March 1985): 2-160. page number: Reproduced: P. 23-24, figs. 17,18, P. 119, fig. 149, P. 121, fig. 151; Mentioned: P. 21-22, P. 118-120, P. 124, P. 133-134, P. 141, no. 45, P. 146, n.11-12, P. 154, n. 85 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159893 Lasko, Peter. Ars Sacra, 800-1200. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 118-119, pl. 162 url: Boockmann, Andrea. Die verlorenen Teile des 'Welfenschätzes': eine Übersicht anhand des Reliquienverzeichnisses von 1482 der Stiftskirche St. Blasius in Braunschweig. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997. page number: Mentioned: P. 51, P. 129, n.7, P. 157 url: Little, Charles T. "Again the Cleveland Book-Shaped Reliquary." In Der Welfenschatz und sein Umkreis. Joachim Ehlers, and Dietrich Kötzsche, ed., 77-92. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1998. page number: Mentioned: P. 77-92; Reproduced: Taf. 10, P. 78, 80-81, 83, figs. 1-4fig. 1 url: Nilgen, Ursula. "Thomas Beckett und Braunschweig." In Der Welfenschatz und sein Umkreis. Joachim Ehlers, and Dietrich Kötzsche, ed., 219-242. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1998. page number: Mentioned: P. 238-240; Reproduced: Taf. 10, P. 239, abb. 16 url: Fritz, Johann Michael. "Das Plenar Ottos des Milden und Verwandte Werke." In Der Welfenschatz und sein Umkreis. Joachim Ehlers, and Dietrich Kötzsche, ed., 369-385. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1998. page number: Mentioned: P. 379; Reproduced: Taf. 10, P. 377, abb. 7 url: Brandt, Michael. Abglanz des Himmels: Romanik in Hildesheim : Katalog zur Ausstellung des Dom-Museums Hildesheim, Hildesheim 2001. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2001. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 141-142, abb. 49 url: Klein, Holger A. 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. 126-127, no. 40 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 118-119, no. 37 url: Cambier, Helene. "L'art de l'Ivoire en Question. A Propos de la Production Mosane aux XIe et XIIe Siecles." Les Cahiers de Saint-Michel de Cuxa 43 (2012): 165-70. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 169, figs. 7 and 8 url: Inglis, Erik. "Expertise, Artifacts, and Time in the 1534 Inventory of the St-Denis Treasury." The Art Bulletin 98, no.1 (March 2016): [14]-42 page number: Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 11 url: Köllermann, Antje-Fee, and Christine Unsinn. Die Goldene Tafel aus Lüneburg: Akten des wissenschaftlichen Kolloqiums - Ergebnisband des Forschungsprojektes.
Petersberg : Michael Imhof Verlag, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 50, fig. 17 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.741/1930.741_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.741/1930.741_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.741/1930.741_full.tif