id: 127472 accession number: 1950.154 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.154 updated: 2023-12-07 05:48:30.776000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1084 creation date earliest: 1079 creation date latest: 1089 current location: 105 Byzantine creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Byzantium, Constantinople, 11th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Byzantine type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- 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). --- PROVENANCE Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1950 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1950- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lambros, Spyr. P. Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts on Mount Athos. Cambridge: Univ. Pr, 1900. page number: p. 98, no. 1083 url: Capps, Edward Jr. "Byzantine Manuscript Illumination." AllenMemorial Art Museum Bulletin XV (Winter 1958) page number: p. 47 url: 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 url: Weitzmann, Kurt. Studies in Classical and Byzantine Manuscript Illumination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. page number: p. 277 & 280 url: Lionnais, François le. "La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (October, 1973) page number: p. 22 url: 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) url: 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 url: 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 url: Morey, C.R. “The Sources of Medieval Style” Art Bulletin, VII (December 1924) page number: p. 38 url: Weitzmann, Kurt. Illustrations in Roll and Codex; A Study of the Origin and Method of Text Illustration. Princeton [N.J.]: Princeton University Press, 1970. page number: url: Weitzmann, Kurt. “The Constantinopolitan Lectionary.” Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene (1954) page number: url: Dalton, O. M. Byzantine Art and Archaeology. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1911. page number: p. 467-68 url: Campbell, Thomas P. Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. page number: p. 111, Cat. No. 51 url: Rosenwein, Barbara H. Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World. 2014. page number: Cover url: 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.154/1950.154_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.154/1950.154_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.154/1950.154_full.tif