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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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Imported illuminated manuscripts were important in spreading the Byzantine style throughout Western Europe.
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The decoration of this leaf is dominated by a half-page miniature representing the Apostle Peter. Below the miniature are 13 lines of Greek text (the first six verses of Peter's Epistle) introduced by a figure initial of the Greek letter Pi. The vertical members of the letter are composed of Christ and Saint Peter, and are probably intended to recall the words of Christ who, upon encountering Peter as he was leaving Rome asked, "Where goest thou?" The present leaf comes from a combined Psalter and New Testament which, on the basis of its sophisticated style, was undoubtedly produced in a workshop in Constantinople. The parent manuscript was given to the Pantokrator Monastery on Mount Athos (founded 1363) by its aristocratic, possibly imperial, owner.
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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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