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accession number: 1950.154
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Leaf from a Greek Psalter and New Testament, 1084. Byzantium, Constantinople, 11th century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 16.3 x 10.9 cm (6 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.); framed: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.); matted: 40.6 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.154
title: Leaf from a Greek Psalter and New Testament
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creation date: 1084
creation date earliest: 1079
creation date latest: 1089
current location: 105 Byzantine
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Byzantium, Constantinople, 11th century
technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Byzantine
type: Manuscript
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measurements: Sheet: 16.3 x 10.9 cm (6 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.); Framed: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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: The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art
opening date: 1993-09-25T04:00:00
The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993).
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
* Exhibition of Byzantine and Medieval Art, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, (September 1954).
* Liturgical Arts, Chapman Gallery at Milwaukee-Downer College, Milwaukee, WI, (March 1955).
* Bladwin Fund Special Advanced Seminar, The Dudley Peter Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, (December 3-20, 1957).
* Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, (1973).
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PROVENANCE
Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -1950
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
date: 1950-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lambros, Spyr. P. Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts on Mount Athos. Cambridge: Univ. Pr, 1900.
page number: p. 98, no. 1083
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Capps, Edward Jr. "Byzantine Manuscript Illumination." AllenMemorial Art Museum Bulletin XV (Winter 1958)
page number: p. 47
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Dumbarton Oaks. Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Number Nineteen. Number Nineteen. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1965.
page number: pp. 155-183 fig. 34
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Weitzmann, Kurt. Studies in Classical and Byzantine Manuscript Illumination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.
page number: p. 277 & 280
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Lionnais, François le. "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (October, 1973)
page number: p. 22
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Der Nersessian, Sirarpie. Études Byzantines Et Arméniennes. Byzantine and Armenian Studies. Louvain: Impr. orientaliste, 1973.
page number: p. 139 (vol.1), p. 30 (vol. 2)
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Evans, Helen C., and William D. Wixom. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.
page number: p. 99
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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: p. 86
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Morey, C.R. “The Sources of Medieval Style” Art Bulletin, VII (December 1924)
page number: p. 38
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Weitzmann, Kurt. Illustrations in Roll and Codex; A Study of the Origin and Method of Text Illustration. Princeton [N.J.]: Princeton University Press, 1970.
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Weitzmann, Kurt. “The Constantinopolitan Lectionary.” Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene (1954)
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Dalton, O. M. Byzantine Art and Archaeology. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1911.
page number: p. 467-68
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Campbell, Thomas P. Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.
page number: p. 111, Cat. No. 51
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Rosenwein, Barbara H. Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World. 2014.
page number: Cover
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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. 82
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n29
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
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
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