id:			121708
accession number:	1942.152
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.152
updated:		2025-02-09 00:50:19.916000

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

title:				Gospel Book with Commentaries
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creation date:			c. 1000–1100
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1100
current location:		105 Byzantine
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Byzantium, Constantinople
technique:	ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Byzantine
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

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measurements: Sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination
	opening date:   1964-03-17T05:00:00
	<i>Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17-April 19, 1964).

	title:		Greek and Byzantine Manuscripts
	opening date:   1973-04-13T05:00:00
	<i>Greek and Byzantine Manuscripts</i>. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (April 13-May 20, 1973).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, (1947); no. 704, pl. XCIX.', 'opening_date': '1947-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Princeton University, (March 9, - May 31, 1973).', 'opening_date': '1973-05-31T00:00:00'}

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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: 		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: 	

	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
	relationship: 	

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CITATIONS

	Clark, Kenneth Willis. <em>A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America</em>. Chicago, Ill: The University of Chicago Press, 1937.
	page number: 	pp. 122-23
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	Milliken, William M. “Byzantine Manuscript Illumination” <em>ClevelandMuseum of Art Bulletin</em>34 (March 1947)
	page number: 	pp. 50-56
	url:		

	Milliken, William M. “Early Christian and Byzantine Art in America” <em>Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism </em>Vol. V (June 1947)
	page number: 	pp. 256-68
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	Diehl, Charles, Naomi Walford, and Peter Charanis. <em>Byzantium: Greatness and Decline</em>. 1957.
	page number: 	p. 231
	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: 	p. 428
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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: 	p. 138
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 40
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n62

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 42
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n62

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