id:			126808
accession number:	1949.202
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.202
updated:		2025-02-09 01:26:50.113000

Cutting from an Antiphonary:  Initial A[spiciens a longe]: The Tree of Jesse, c. 1115–1125. Germany, Meuse Valley, 12th century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 18 x 16 cm (7 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1949.202

title:				Cutting from an Antiphonary:  Initial A[spiciens a longe]: The Tree of Jesse
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creation date:			c. 1115–1125
creation date earliest:		1115
creation date latest:		1125
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	Germany, Meuse Valley, 12th century
technique:	ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

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measurements: Sheet: 18 x 16 cm (7 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Ecce Virgo Consipiet et Pariet Filium
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	inscription:	Domine inclina celos tuos et descende
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	inscription:	Ego flos campi et llium convalluim
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	inscription:	Ego sum lux mundi
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	inscription:	In principio erat verbum
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	inscription:	Ecce Agnus Dei
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	inscription:	V (?) ex Syon species decoris eius
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Tree of Life
	opening date:   1955-01-07T05:00:00
	<i>The Tree of Life</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 7-March 8, 1955).

	title:		The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art
	opening date:   1993-09-25T04:00:00
	<i>The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, Germany
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	Professor Robert Forrer (1866-1947), Strasbourg, France
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	Mrs. Addie Wolff (Mrs. Otto H. Kahn) (d. 1949), New York, NY, sold to Joseph Brummer Gallery
	date: ?-1943
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	(Joseph Brummer Gallery, sold to Vladimir G. Simkovitch)
	date: 1943-1949
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	Vladimir G. Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1949
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1949-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Forrer, Robert. <em>Unedierte Federzeichnungen, Miniaturen und Initialen des Mittelalters</em> Vol. 2. Straßburg im Elsaß: Schlesier &amp; Schweihhardt, 1907.
	page number: 	pl. IV
	url:		

	Watson, Arthur. <em>The Early Iconography of the Tree of Jesse</em>. London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1934.
	page number: 	Pl. XXXI
	url:		

	The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
	page number: 	
	url:		https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/19222/rec/1

	Milliken, William M. "A Tree of Jesse." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 36, no. 8 (1949).
	page number: 	pp. 156-58
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141575

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 103
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n32

	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. 48
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n72

	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. 48
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n70

	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. 53
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n73

	Hidrio, Guylène. <em>L'iconographie du Speculum virginum.</em> 2017.
	page number: 	p. 55, no. 77
	url:		

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IMAGES

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