id: 133380 accession number: 1955.74 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.74 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:38.437000 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 * {'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'} --- 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: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 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