id: 130313 accession number: 1952.88 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.88 updated: 2023-03-25 11:14:24.879000 Title Page of Abbot Berno's "Tonarius:" Initial D[omino], c.1030. Germany, Abbey of Reichenau, 11th century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 21.5 x 15.3 cm (8 7/16 x 6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1952.88 title: Title Page of Abbot Berno's "Tonarius:" Initial D[omino] title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c.1030 creation date earliest: 1025 creation date latest: 1035 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, Abbey of Reichenau, 11th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 21.5 x 15.3 cm (8 7/16 x 6 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Romanesque Art opening date: 1960-11-06T05:00:00 Romanesque Art. Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (November 6-December 4, 1960). title: Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts opening date: 1963-04-24T05:00:00 Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963). title: Suevia Sacra opening date: 1973-06-30T04:00:00 Suevia Sacra. Staatsgalerie in der Katharinenkirche Augsburg, 86150 Augsburg, Germany (organizer) (June 30-September 16, 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: Illuminated Manuscripts opening date: 2004-10-10T00:00:00 Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005). title: Devotion and Leaning in the Middle Ages- (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2017-12-04T05:00:00 Devotion and Leaning in the Middle Ages- (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Bern, Berner Kunstmuseum "Kunst des frühen Mittelalters" 1949, cat. no. 121. * Kunst des frühen Mittelalters (Bern: Berner Kunstmuseum, 1949): no. 121. * Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, "Art in the book" December 5, 1953 - January 3, 1954, cat. no. 16 * CMA, "The Helmarschausan Latin Gospels" March 1 - June 1959. * University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, "Romanesque Art," November 6 - December 4, 1960. * Berkely, University of California Berkely, University Art Gallery, "Loan Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscript Pages" 04/05/1963-06/18/1963 * Stadt Augsburg, "Suevia Sacra: Fruhe Kunst in Schwaben" 05/09/1973-10/16/1973, no. 169. * The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); "Illuminated Manuscripts" --- PROVENANCE Mario Uzielli, Liestal, Switzerland, sold to Herbert N. Bier date: -1952 footnotes: citations: Mr. Herbert N. Bier, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1952 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1952- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This leaf originally served as the dedication page of the Tonarius, or Tonary, written by Reichenau's Abbot Berno (1008-1048). A tonary was a music manual used to regulate liturgical chants. Berno's manuscript was presented to Archbishop Pilgrim of Cologne (1021-1036) whose name appears at the bottom of this leaf. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 97 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n31 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. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n69 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. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n67 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. 49 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n69 Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Annegret Butz, and Sigrid von Borries-Schulten. Katalog der illuminierten Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1987. page number: Mentioned: Bd.1, P. 41-42, no. 21 url: Berschin, Walter, and Ulrich Kuder. Reichenauer Buchmalerei 850-1070. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 136, no. 47 url: Kuder, Ulrich and Klaus Gereon Beuckers. Studien zur Ottonischen Buchmalerei. Kiel: Verlag Ludwig, 2018. page number: Mentioned; p. 341, no. 273 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.88/1952.88_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.88/1952.88_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1952.88/1952.88_full.tif