id: 517622 accession number: 1950.391.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.391.a updated: 2023-08-24 01:49:12.408000 Bifolio from a Gradual: Initial (G) with Christ, the Virgin, and Apostles and Initial (O) (recto), c. 1300. Italy, Siena (?). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 55.7 x 37.9 cm (21 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.391.a title: Bifolio from a Gradual: Initial (G) with Christ, the Virgin, and Apostles and Initial (O) (recto) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1300 creation date earliest: 1295 creation date latest: 1305 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Siena (?) technique: Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 55.7 x 37.9 cm (21 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- 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: Words written in red ink, called rubrics, indicate titles and chapter headings that are not part of a manuscript’s main text. digital description: wall description: The large decorated initial G introduces the text, Gaudeamus omnes in Domino (Let us rejoice in the Lord). It is the beginning of the opening prayer, or introit, of the Mass for the Feast of All Saints (November 1). The figures within the initial include Christ, the Virgin Mary, and various saints. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bollati, Milvia, and Miklós Boskovits. Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani: secoli IX-XVI. Milano: Sylvestre Bonnard, 2004. page number: p. 536 url: Freuler, Gaudenz. Ancora Sulla Miniatura sense dei secoli XIII-XV. Arte Cristiana XCVII (2009). page number: p. 282 url: Medica, Massimo, and Federica Toniolo. Le miniature della Fondazione Giorgio Cini: pagine, ritagli, manoscritti. 2016. page number: p. 278 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.391.a/1950.391.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.391.a/1950.391.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.391.a/1950.391.a_full.tif