id: 121697 accession number: 1942.1511 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1511 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:50.437000 Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Luke, 1057–1063. Byzantium, Constantinople. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; sheet: 28.9 x 22.6 cm (11 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.1511 title: Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Luke title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1057–1063 creation date earliest: 1057 creation date latest: 1063 current location: 105 Byzantine creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Byzantium, Constantinople technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Byzantine type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 28.9 x 22.6 cm (11 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.); Matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Early Christian and Byzantine Art opening date: 1947-04-24T05:00:00 Early Christian and Byzantine Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art. title: Early Christian and Medieval Art opening date: 1949-02-01T05:00:00 Early Christian and Medieval Art. Seattle Art Museum. title: The World of Miniature Painting opening date: 1953-09-20T04:00:00 The World of Miniature Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 20-November 10, 1953). title: Byzantine Manuscript Illumination opening date: 1957-12-02T05:00:00 Byzantine Manuscript Illumination. Allen Memorial Art Museum. title: Byzantine Art: A European Art opening date: 1964-04-01T05:00:00 Byzantine Art: A European Art. Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece (organizer) (April 1-June 15, 1964). title: Greek and Byzantine Manuscripts opening date: 1973-04-13T05:00:00 Greek and Byzantine Manuscripts. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (April 13-May 20, 1973). title: Gifts from the Byzantine Court opening date: 1980-02-06T05:00:00 Gifts from the Byzantine Court. Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Washington, DC (organizer) (February 6-June 1, 1980). title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00 When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). title: The Glory of Byzantium opening date: 1997-03-03T00:00:00 The Glory of Byzantium. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3-July 6, 1997). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Exposition d'Art Byzantin, Paris, (March 28 - July 1931); cat. no. 653. (Phanar Gospel with the Mark and John still in it)", 'opening_date': '1931-03-28T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Dikran G. Kelekian, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1942- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 121708 Gospel Book with Commentaries, c. 1000–1100. Byzantium, Constantinople. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding; sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.152 relationship: id: 121698 Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew, 1057–1063. Byzantium, Constantinople. Tempera and gold on vellum; sheet: 28.8 x 24.3 cm (11 5/16 x 9 9/16 in.); framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.1512 relationship: --- CITATIONS Charles Diehl. “L’Evengélaire de l’Impératice Catherine Commnène” Compte Rendu de Séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris, 1922) page number: pp 243-248 url: Diehl, Charles, “Monuments Byzantins Inédits du Onzième Siècle” Art Studies: Medieval, Renaissance and Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. page number: p. 9 url: Musée du Louvre, and Exposition Internationale d'Art Byzantin. Exposition Internationale d'Art Byzantin 28 mai - 9 juillet 1931, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre. 1931. page number: url: Clark, Kenneth W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. 1937. page number: pp. 122-3 url: Milliken, William M. “Byzantine Manuscript Illumination” The Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (March 1947) page number: pp 50-56 url: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.), and Dorothy Eugenia Miner. Early Christian and Byzantine Art, An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 25-June 22 [1947]. Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1947. page number: p. 137 url: William M. Milliken, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art in America," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (June 1947) page number: url: Martin, John Rupert. The Illustration of The Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954. page number: url: Capps, Edward Jr. "Byzantine Manuscript Illumination." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin XV (Winter 1958) page number: p. 46 url: K.M. Swoboda, "In der Jahren 1950 bis 1961 erschienede Werke zur byzantinischen und weiteren ostchristthchen Kunst" Kunstgeschichliche Anzeigen 5 (1961/2) page number: p. 66, no. 20 url: Ricci, Seymour de, William Jerome Wilson, Christopher Urdahl Faye, and William Henry Bond. Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: In the United States and Canada. New York, N.Y.: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. page number: 428 url: Wixom, William D. “The Byzantine Art Exhibition at Athens” The Art Quarterly Vol. 27 No. 4 (1964) page number: pp 445-474 url: Hayward, Helena, and Douglas Ash. World Furniture: An Illustrated History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. page number: url: Wixom, William D. “A Manuscript Painting from Cluny” Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin LVI (April 1969) page number: pp 131-135 url: Vikan, Gary, and Kurt Weitzmann. Illuminated Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann. Princeton (N.J.): Princeton Univ. Press, 1973. page number: pp. 85-86 url: Evans, Helen C. The Glory of Byzantium: Art an Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843-1261 ; [in Conjunction with the Exhibition "The Glory of Byzantium", Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from March 11 Through July 6, 1997]. New York, NY: Abrams, 1997. page number: p. 103 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., "St. Luke in Ethiopia", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 40 no. 04, April 2000 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2000-04/page/4 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: pp 83-85 url: Popova, O. S. Vizantiĭskai︠a︡ miniati︠u︡ra vtoroĭ poloviny X--nachala XII veka = The byzantine miniature from the second half of the 10th century to early 12th century. 2012. page number: p. 73, fig. 51 url: "Collis Lecture.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58, no. 5 (September/October 2018): 20. page number: Reproduced: P. 20. url: Popova, O. S., and V. D. Sarabʹi︠a︡nov. Mozaĭki i freski Svi︠a︡toĭ Sofii Kievskoĭ. Москва: Гамма-Пресс, 2017. page number: Reproduced: P. 468, fig. 395 url: Theis, Lioba, Galina Fingarova, Fani Gargova, and Margaret Mullett. Illuminations: studies presented to Lioba Theis. Wien : Phoibos Verlag, 2022. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 123-124, fig. 6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1511/1942.1511_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1511/1942.1511_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.1511/1942.1511_full.tif