id:			160813
accession number:	1999.125
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Leaf from a Psalter: Historiated Initial D with The Trinity, c.1310. Follower of Master of the Queen Mary Psalter (English). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 26.7 x 17.5 cm (10 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 1999.125

title:				Leaf from a Psalter: Historiated Initial D with The Trinity
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creation date:			c.1310
creation date earliest:		1305
creation date latest:		1315
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creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture:	England, East Anglia, early 14th Century
technique:	ink, tempera and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

* Master of the Queen Mary Psalter (English)  - artist

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measurements: Each leaf: 26.7 x 17.5 cm (10 1/2 x 6 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).

	title:		Illuminated Manuscripts
	opening date:   2004-10-10T00:00:00
	<i>Illuminated Manuscripts</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 15, illus. p. 23.

* The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); "Illuminated Manuscripts"

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PROVENANCE

	Parish church of St. Botulph at Iken in Suffolk; [Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1969, lot 36 (for sister leaves)]; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
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wall description:
Although English, the design of this psalter page follows the fashion of French book illumination. In particular, the white flesh tones, elegant wavy coiffures, and elongated fingers of the figures relate this leaf to the Queen Mary Psalter, probably the most "Parisian" of all surviving English illuminated manuscripts of the early 1300s. The Queen Mary Psalter is named after the 16th-century English queen who appears to have once owned it. The artistic connections between France and England during this period are puzzling and often show influence moving in both directions. The workshop of the Queen Mary Psalter appears to have been active in East Anglia between 1310 and 1335, though its specific location remains unknown. It presumably competed with workshops in Norwich, Cambridge, Bury St. Edmunds, and the so-called "Fenland" workshops. A large initial <em>D</em> for <em>Dixit dominus domino. . . .</em> (The Lord said unto my Lord. . . . ) introduces the text, the opening of Psalm 109, within which appears the Trinity.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 23, cat. no. 15
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n35

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