id: 133419 accession number: 1955.78 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.78 updated: 2023-03-09 12:48:02.495000 Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (R) with the Three Marys at the Tomb and "Noli me Tangere", c. 1270–1300. Italy. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 55 x 33.5 cm (21 5/8 x 13 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.78 title: Leaf from a Gradual: Initial (R) with the Three Marys at the Tomb and "Noli me Tangere" title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1270–1300 creation date earliest: 1265 creation date latest: 1305 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy technique: Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Sheet: 55 x 33.5 cm (21 5/8 x 13 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2018-12-05T05:00:00 Liturgical Textiles and Manuscripts from Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy (Manuscript and Textile Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 5, 2018-December 2, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1955 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1955- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The name gradual derives from the practice of singing on the “gradual” steps of a raised pulpit. digital description: wall description: This choral leaf introduces the introit, or opening prayers, of the Easter Sunday Mass. The historiated letter R begins the text Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum, alleluia (I arose, and am still with you, alleluia). Within the upper register of the initial, the artist represents the three women named Mary, mentioned in the gospels, who discovered Christ’s empty tomb. In the lower register, a scene known simply as noli me tangere (touch me not), recounts the appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene following the Resurrection. When she recognized him, he asked that she not touch him but go to the disciples with the message that he was now risen. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.78/1955.78_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.78/1955.78_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.78/1955.78_full.tif