id:			160810
accession number:	1999.122
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.122
updated:		2023-03-15 15:46:34.655000

Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves), c. 1225–50. England, Glastonbury(?), 13th century. Tempera and ink on vellum; sheet: 20 x 15 cm (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 1999.122

title:				Leaf from a Bible: Initial E: Entwined Lions and Serpents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)
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creation date:			c. 1225–50
creation date earliest:		1220
creation date latest:		1255
current location:		
creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	England, Glastonbury(?), 13th century
technique:	tempera and ink on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Sheet: 20 x 15 cm (7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations
	opening date:   1999-12-19T00:00:00
	<i>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Glastonbury Abbey, England (purportedly)
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	Roger Gale (1672-1744), Yorkshire, England
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	[Sale: Sotheby's London, 22 June 1982, lot 47]
	date: June 22, 1982
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	[Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]
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	Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Durham, NC, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -1999
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1999-
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fun fact:
The museum owns another leaf from this same bible, <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.52">2011.52</a>.

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wall description:
This pair of leaves from the same one-volume Bible have been traditionally associated with the Benedictine Abbey of Glastonbury in southwest England. It is known that the Bible once belonged to the English antiquary and collector, Roger Gale (1672–1744), whose library of 450 manuscripts once included two of the surviving 35 books from Glastonbury Abbey. Until its dissolution in 1539, Glastonbury was one of the greatest and wealthiest abbeys in Europe. Given its vast wealth and the recorded library lists, the abbey must have been a substantial patron of the arts. However, only a few illuminated manuscripts can now be positively identified as Glastonbury work.
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		169736
	Initial I: Entwined Beast and Serpent: Leaf from a Bible (2 of 2 Excised Leaves), c. 1225-1250. England, Glastonbury?, 13th century. Tempera and ink on vellum; leaf: 20 x 15.2 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.52
	relationship: 	

	id: 		None
	None
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CITATIONS

	Sotheby's (Firm). <em>Western Manuscripts and Miniatures</em>. 1982.
	page number: 	lot 47
	url:		

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 13, cat. no. 3
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n25

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IMAGES

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