id:			114204
accession number:	1933.448
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.448
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:24.177000

Bifolia with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1230–1240. Germany, Lower Saxony (Diocese of Hildesheim), Braunschweig(?), 13th century. Tempera, and gold on vellum; framed: 48.3 x 63.5 cm (19 x 25 in.); overall: 30.7 x 45.2 cm (12 1/16 x 17 13/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1933.448

title:				Bifolia with Scenes from the Life of Christ
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1230–1240
creation date earliest:		1230
creation date latest:		1240
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

---

culture:	Germany, Lower Saxony (Diocese of Hildesheim), Braunschweig(?), 13th century
technique:	tempera, and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

---

measurements: Framed: 48.3 x 63.5 cm (19 x 25 in.); Overall: 30.7 x 45.2 cm (12 1/16 x 17 13/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

---

PROVENANCE

	Convent Kemnade
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Westphalian Castle Library
	date: 1777    
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Baron Münchhausen, Münster in Westphalia
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Convent Kamnade; Westphalian Castle Library (1777); Baron Münchhausen, Münster in Westphalia
	date: 
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein<em>. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 148-149, no. 51
	url:		

	Hlavackova, Hana. "Liber viaticus Jana ze Stredy-ikonografie." In <em>Liber viaticus Jana ze Středy. </em>119-167. Praha: Academia: Národní muzeum, 2016.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P.143, fig. 69
	url:		

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.448/1933.448_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.448/1933.448_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1933.448/1933.448_full.tif