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accession number: 1962.287
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The Gotha Missal, c. 1375. Master of the Boqueteaux (French), and Workshop. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; blind-tooled leather binding; codex: 28.3 x 20.6 x 4.8 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1962.287
title: The Gotha Missal
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creation date: c. 1375
creation date earliest: 1370
creation date latest: 1380
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creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture: France, Paris
technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; blind-tooled leather binding
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Bound Volume
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CREATORS
* Master of the Boqueteaux (French) - artist
* Workshop - artist
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measurements: Codex: 28.3 x 20.6 x 4.8 cm (11 1/8 x 8 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Gothic Art 1360-1440
opening date: 1963-08-06T04:00:00
Gothic Art 1360-1440. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 6-September 15, 1963).
title: Year in Review (1963)
opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
title: Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination
opening date: 1964-03-17T05:00:00
Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 17-April 19, 1964).
title: Treasures of Medieval France
opening date: 1966-11-16T05:00:00
Treasures of Medieval France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1966-January 29, 1967).
title: Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419)
opening date: 2004-05-27T00:00:00
Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Dijon, France (May 27-September 15, 2004); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2004-January 9, 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
J. B. Huhn
date: 1720
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Dukes of Gotha
date: 1745
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Earl of Denbigh, Sale: Southey's, 4/3/1950, Lot 1
date: 1950
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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Mrs. Gordon Mathias, Sale: Southey's 6/5/1961, lot 177)
date: 1961
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H. P. Kraus, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1962
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
date: 1962-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
H.P. Kraus (Firm). Thirty-Five Manuscripts: Including the St. Blasien Psalter, the Llangattock Hours, the Gotha Missal, the Roger Bacon (Voynich) Cipher Ms. New York, N.Y.: H.P. Kraus, 1962.
page number: pp. 32-39
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Wixom, William D. "A Missal for a King: A First Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 7 (1963)
page number: pp. 159-73
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“Acquisition” Museum News (October 1963)
page number: p. 3
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"Flashes," Jardin des Arts, (December 1963)
page number: p. 69
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Mastai, M-L. D’Otrange. "The Connoisseur in America” The Connoisseur (Dec. 1963)
page number: pp. 273-75
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The Art Quarterly, (Summer 1963)
page number: p. 250, 256
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Bober, Harry. "Medieval Art at Cleveland," Apollo (December 1963)
page number: pp. 434, 456
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Wixom, William D. "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. A Catalogue to the Exhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 3 (1964)
page number: pp. 51-53
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"La Chronique Des Arts," Gazette Des Beaux-Arts, (February 1964)
page number: p. 43, fig. 155
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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. 63
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n87
Wixom, William D. "Three Gothic Sculptures." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 9 (1966)
page number: pp. 349-50
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Beckwith, John. "A Rhenish Ivory Noli Me Tangere."Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin II (July 1966)
page number: p. 113
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Alsop, Joseph."Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art." Art in America(May-June 1966)
page number: pp. 43-44
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Bodleian Library, Otto Pächt, and J. J. G. Alexander. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon P., 1966.
page number: p. 47 pl. XLVI
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Stoddard, Whitney S. Monastery and Cathedral in France; Medieval Architecture, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Manuscripts, the Art of the Church Treasuries. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1966.
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Wixom, William D. Treasures from Medieval France. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page number: pp. 220-21
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Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke. 1967.
page number: fig. 519
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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. 63
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n87
Cooper, Barbara, and Maureen Matheson. The World Museums Guide, Edited by Barbara Cooper & Maureen Matheson. London: Threshold Books Ltd, 1973.
page number: p. 78
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Châtelet, Albert, and Nicole Reynaud. Etudes D'art Français Offertes À Charles Sterling. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1975.
page number: p. 70, fig. 49
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Wixom, William D. "Leaves from a Prague Antiphonary." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 10 (1977)
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Bott, Gerhard, and Frank Günter Zehnder. Vor Stefan Lochner: die Kölner Maler von 1300-1430 : Ergebnisse der Ausstellung und des Colloquiums, Köln, 1974. Köln: Rudolf Müller, 1977.
page number: p. 135 & 139
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Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums. (1977).
page number: p. 44, fig. 15
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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. 70
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n90
Goodrum, Charles A., Edith M. Pavese, and Daniel J. Boorstin. Treasures of the Library of Congress. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1980.
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"The Grandes Heures of Phillip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy." Speculum 57 (October 1982)
page number: pp. 794, 840
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Sandler, Lucy Freeman. “Jean Pucelle and the Lost Miniatures of the Belleville Breviary.” The Art Bulletin Vol. LXVI No. 1 (March 1984)
page number: pp. 73-96
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De Winter, Patrick M. La bibliothèque de Philippe le Hardi, duc de Bourgogne (1364-1404): étude sur les manuscrits à peintures d'une collection princière à l'époque du "style gothique international". Paris: Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1985.
page number: pp. 6, 91, 100, 185, figs. 101 & 211
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Sticca, Sandro. The Planctus Mariae in the dramatic tradition of the Middle Ages. Athens [Ga.]: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
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Hedeman, Anne D. The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
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Kibler, William W., and Grover A. Zinn. Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.
page number: p. 318
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Fillitz, Hermann, and Friedrich Dahm. Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Österreich. München: Prestel, 1998.
page number: pp. 482-83
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Fillitz, Hermann, and Friedrich Dahm. Geschichte der bildenden Kunst in Österreich. München: Prestel, 1998.
page number: fig. 26, p. 482, fol. 63v; fig. 28, p. 483 fol. 1r
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: p. 27
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Thürlemann, Felix, and Robert Campin. Robert Campin: A Monographic Study with Critical Catalogue. Munich: Prestel, 2002.
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Fliegel, Stephen N., Sophie Jugie, and Virginie Barthélémy. Art from the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless 1364-1419 : Musée Des Beaux-Arts De Dijon, May 28-September 15, 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 24, 2004-January 9, 2005. [Dijon]: Musée des beaux-arts, 2004.
page number: Cat no. 23, p. 79
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Denoël, Charlotte. Saint André: culte et iconographie en France, Ve-XVe siècles. Paris: Ecole des chartes, 2004.
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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: pp. 214-215
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Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009.
page number: p. 77, fig. 64
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Luxford, Julian M. and M. A. Michael, eds. Tributes to Nigel Morgan: Contexts of Medieval Art: Images,Objects & Ideas. London: Harvey Miller, 2010.
page number: Mention: p. 202, note 40
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Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012.
page number: p. 53, fig. 43
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
Fol. 63v only
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 270
url:
Fajt, Jiří. Nürnberg als Kunstzentrum des Heiligen Römischen Reichs: höfische und städtische Malerei in der Zeit Kaiser Karls IV. 1346-1378. Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag ; Prag : Nationalgalerie Prag 2019.
page number: Reproduced: p. 223, Abb. 238 (fol. 63v only)
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