id: 121698
accession number: 1942.1512
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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
title: Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew
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creation date: 1057–1063
creation date earliest: 1057
creation date latest: 1063
current location: 105 Byzantine
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Byzantium, Constantinople
technique: tempera and gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Byzantine
type: Manuscript
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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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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts
opening date: 1963-04-24T05:00:00
Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963).
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: Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art
opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00
Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-February 2, 1992).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': "Exposition d'Art Byzantin, Paris, (March 28 - Jul 1931); cat. no. 653. (Phanar Gospel with the Mark and John still in it)", 'opening_date': '1931-03-28T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art" April 24 - June 24, 1947; cat. no. 700, pl. XCVIII.', 'opening_date': '1947-04-24T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, "Early Christian and Medieval Art" February 1 - February 28, 1949.', 'opening_date': '1949-02-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art "Ecclesiastical Art" December 6, 1954 - January 30, 1955.', 'opening_date': '1954-12-06T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Oberlin, OH, The Dudley Peter Allen Memorial Art Museum, "Byzantine Manuscript Illumination" December 2 - December 20, 1957; cat. no. 3, pl. 3.', 'opening_date': '1957-12-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Pierpont-Morgan Library, 12/7/1979--6/16/1980.', 'opening_date': '1979-12-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington D.C., Dumbarton Oaks, "Three Pages from the Phanar Gospels" February 4 - June 1, 1980.', 'opening_date': '1980-02-04T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Dikran G. Kelekian, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -1942
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
date: 1942-
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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
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id: 121697
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
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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: p. 248
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Diehl, Charles, “Monuments Byzantins Inédits du Onzième Siècle” Art Studies: Medieval, Renaissance and Modern. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927.
page number: p. 9, fig. 5
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Clark, Kenneth W. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. 1937.
page number: pp. 122-3
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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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Milliken, William M. “Byzantine Manuscript Illumination” The Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 34 (March 1947)
page number: pp 50-56
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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
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n29
Oberlin College. Allen Memorial Museum. "Byzantine Manuscript Illumination : An Exhibition December 3-19." Allen Memorial Artmuseum. Bulletin V.15, No. 2, Winter (1958).
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 3
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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: p. 428
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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.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 5, Reproduced pl. VI.
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Greece, and Council of Europe. Byzantine Art, a European Art. 2d ed. Athens, 1964.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 309
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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. 40
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n64
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. 40
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n62
Wixom, William D. “A Manuscript Painting from Cluny” Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin LVI (April 1969)
page number: pp. 131-135
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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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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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Hamann-Mac Lean, Richard. Die Monumentalmalerei in Serbien und Makedonien. vom 11. bis zum frühen 14. Jahrhundert : Grundlegung zu einer Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Monumentalmalerei in Serbien und Makedonien [2] [2]. 1976.
page number: p. 84 & 253
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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. 42
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n62
Netzer, Nancy. Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century: The Trier Gospels and the Making of a Scriptorium at Echternach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
page number: p. 96, 236, Pl. 92
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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, Cat. No. 58 A
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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. 256, fig. 224
url:
Exposition internationale d'art byzantin. Exposition internationale d'art byzantin, 28 mai-9 juillet, 1931: [catalogue d'une exposition au Musée des arts décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan]. Paris: Musée des arts décoratifs, 1931.
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