id:			133422
accession number:	1955.79.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.79.2
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Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Coronation of the Virgin (recto); Text (verso), c. 1415. Workshop of Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; folio: 17 x 12.5 cm (6 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.79.2

title:				Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Coronation of the Virgin (recto); Text (verso)
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creation date:			c. 1415
creation date earliest:		1410
creation date latest:		1420
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, Paris, 15th century
technique:	ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410–25)  - artist

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measurements: Folio: 17 x 12.5 cm (6 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Converte nos, Deus salutaris noster, et averte iram tuam a nobis
Deus in adiutorium meum…[intende]
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Netherlandish Book Illustrations
	opening date:   1960-04-22T05:00:00
	<i>Netherlandish Book Illustrations</i>. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (April 22-May 15, 1960).

	title:		Gothic Art 1360-1440
	opening date:   1963-08-06T04:00:00
	<i>Gothic Art 1360-1440</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).

	title:		The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation)
	opening date:   2022-08-26T04:00:00
	<i>The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Netherlandish Illumination,</em> Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 22-May 12, 1960).

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PROVENANCE

	Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, 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

	id: 		130649
	Leaves from a Book of Hours: The Visitation and Christ in Judgment, c. 1415. Workshop of Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410-25). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 17 x 12.7 cm (6 11/16 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.366
	relationship: 	

	id: 		133421
	Bifolio from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto); Text (verso), c. 1415. Workshop of Boucicaut Master (French, Paris, active about 1410-25). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; folio: 16.8 x 12.7 cm (6 5/8 x 5 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1955.79.1
	relationship: 	

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CITATIONS

	Allen Memorial Art Museum. <em>An Exhibition of Netherlandish Book Illumination, April 22 Thorugh May 12. 1960. </em>
	page number: 	Cat. no. 10 a-d
	url:		

	Gothic Art 1360-1440. (1963). <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art,</em> <em>50</em>(7).
	page number: 	no. 13, p. 188
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151960

	Meiss, Millard, Kathleen Morand, and Edith W. Kirsch.<em> French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Boucicaut Master.</em> 1968.
	page number: 	p. 139
	url:		

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