id: 133380 accession number: 1955.74 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.74 updated: 2023-03-09 12:48:02.463000 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1143–1178 creation date earliest: 1143 creation date latest: 1178 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Switzerland, Monastery of Engelberg, 12th century technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Abbot Frowin (Swiss) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * University Art Gallery, University of California: "Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts" April 24-June 8, 1963, no. 3, pl. V. --- PROVENANCE André Hachette, Paris date: footnotes: citations: Monastery Library, Engelberg, Switzerland date: footnotes: citations: [Heinrich Eisemann, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art] date: -1955 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1955- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This leaf originally formed the title page of a four-volume Moralia (Commentary on the Book of Job) by Gregory the Great, pope and father of the Latin Church. The books still survive in the library of the Monastery of Engelberg, near Lucerne. Both the copying and illumination of the books are attributed to the hand of Engelberg's greatest abbot, Frowin, who ruled from 1143 to 1178. Frowin seemed to be responsible, either as a writer, illuminator, or donor, for nearly 30 manuscripts still preserved at that monastery. --- 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. 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.74/1955.74_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.74/1955.74_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.74/1955.74_full.tif