id: 133380
accession number: 1955.74
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Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia": Job Visited by His Three Friends (above) and Gregory the Great and His Deacon Peter (below), c. 1143–1178. Probably by Abbot Frowin (Swiss). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 27.3 x 19 cm (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.); framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.74
title: Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia": Job Visited by His Three Friends (above) and Gregory the Great and His Deacon Peter (below)
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creation date: c. 1143–1178
creation date earliest: 1143
creation date latest: 1178
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Switzerland, Monastery of Engelberg, 12th century
technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Manuscript
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CREATORS
* Abbot Frowin (Swiss) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 27.3 x 19 cm (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.); Framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); Matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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: Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art
opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00
Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-February 2, 1992).
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: 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).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'University Art Gallery, University of California: "Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts" April 24-June 8, 1963, no. 3, pl. V.', 'opening_date': '1963-04-24T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
André Hachette, Paris
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Monastery Library, Engelberg, Switzerland
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[Heinrich Eisemann, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art]
date: -1955
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1955-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland by swissuniversities Logo (Accessed 4/2023).
page number:
url: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/cma/1955-74
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. 102
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n32
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. 51
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n75
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. 51
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n73
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. 57
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n77
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: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 134-135, no. 44
url:
Bernasconi, Marina, Christoph Flüeler, and Brigitte Roux. Trésors enluminés de Suisse: manuscrits sacrés et profanes. 2020, 114.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 114, fig. 7.
url:
Pohl, Benjamin, "Publishing in a Medieval Monastery: The View from Twelfth-Century Engelberg" Cambridge Elements HSS3 Cambridge University Press (2023).
page number: note 14
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