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"tombstone": "Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew, 1057\u20131063. 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",
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"title": "Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
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"type": "Manuscript",
"measurements": "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.)",
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"description": "Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963).",
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"title": "Byzantine Art: A European Art",
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"title": "Gifts from the Byzantine Court",
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"title": "Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art",
"description": "Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-February 2, 1992).",
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"title": "The Glory of Byzantium",
"description": "The Glory of Byzantium. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3-July 6, 1997).",
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"title": "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "Exposition d'Art Byzantin, Paris, (March 28 - Jul 1931); cat. no. 653. (Phanar Gospel with the Mark and John still in it)",
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"description": "Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, \"Early Christian and Byzantine Art\" April 24 - June 24, 1947; cat. no. 700, pl. XCVIII.",
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"description": "Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, \"Early Christian and Medieval Art\" February 1 - February 28, 1949.",
"opening_date": "1949-02-01T00:00:00"
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"id": 121708,
"description": "Gospel Book with Commentaries, c. 1000\u20131100. 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",
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"id": 121697,
"description": "Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Luke, 1057\u20131063. 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",
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"did_you_know": "Early Gospel lectionaries often had very costly treasure bindings in metalwork, sometimes with jewels and ivories.",
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"description": "This leaf is from a lectionary (a book of gospel readings used in church services) that was presented to the Holy Trinity Monastery at Chalke in Constantinople by the Empress Katherine Komnene in 1063. The tools of the scribe's trade are laid out before the evangelists: a stylus (a pointed tool for writing, drawing, and engraving), a pair of dividers (a device resembling a compass, used for dividing lines and transferring measurements), pens, a knife, a burnisher (polishing tool), and inkpots. Portraits of the authors of the Gospels\u2014Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John\u2014appear frequently in gospel books throughout the Christian world. Understood to be eyewitnesses to the texts they wrote, their presence in these books served to \"authenticate\" the gospels.",
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"citation": "Charles Diehl. \u201cL\u2019Eveng\u00e9laire de l\u2019Imp\u00e9ratice Catherine Commn\u00e8ne\u201d Compte Rendu de S\u00e9ances de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris, 1922)",
"page_number": "p. 248",
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"citation": "Diehl, Charles, \u201cMonuments Byzantins In\u00e9dits du Onzi\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle\u201d Art Studies: Medieval, Renaissance and Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927.",
"page_number": "p. 9, fig. 5",
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},
{
"citation": "Clark, Kenneth W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. 1937.",
"page_number": "pp. 122-3",
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},
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"citation": "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": "Mentioned: cat. no. 700, Reproduced: pl. XCVIII",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cByzantine Manuscript Illumination\u201d The Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (March 1947)",
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"citation": "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. 84",
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"citation": "Oberlin College. Allen Memorial Museum. \"Byzantine Manuscript Illumination : An Exhibition December 3-19.\" Allen Memorial Artmuseum. Bulletin V.15, No. 2, Winter (1958).",
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"citation": "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.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the Early XVIth Centuries: An Exhibition. Berkeley: University of California, 1963.",
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"citation": "Greece, and Council of Europe. Byzantine Art, a European Art. 2d ed. Athens, 1964.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n62"
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"citation": "Wixom, William D. \u201cA Manuscript Painting from Cluny\u201d Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin LVI (April 1969)",
"page_number": "pp. 131-135",
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"citation": "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. 85-6",
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"citation": "Furlan, Italo. \"Aspetti di Cultura Greca a Venezia nell'XI Secolo: La Scuola di Salonicco e lo Stile Monumentale Protocomneno\". Arte Veneta (1976)",
"page_number": "p. 31",
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},
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"citation": "Hamann-Mac Lean, Richard. Die Monumentalmalerei in Serbien und Makedonien. vom 11. bis zum fru\u0308hen 14. Jahrhundert : Grundlegung zu einer Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Monumentalmalerei in Serbien und Makedonien [2] [2]. 1976.",
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"citation": "Netzer, Nancy. Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.",
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"citation": "Exposition internationale d'art byzantin. Exposition internationale d'art byzantin, 28 mai-9 juillet, 1931: [catalogue d'une exposition au Muse\u0301e des arts de\u0301coratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan]. Paris: Muse\u0301e des arts de\u0301coratifs, 1931.",
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