id: 160814 accession number: 1999.126 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.126 updated: 2022-04-20 09:01:57.408000 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Massacre of the Innocents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves), c. 1300-1330. Northeastern France or Flanders. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 13 x 9.7 cm (5 1/8 x 3 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 1999.126 title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Massacre of the Innocents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1300-1330 creation date earliest: 1295 creation date latest: 1335 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: Northeastern France or Flanders technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Each leaf: 13 x 9.7 cm (5 1/8 x 3 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations opening date: 1999-12-19T00:00:00 The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE [Bruce Ferrini (1949-2010), Akron, OH, sold to Mrs. Jeanne Miles Blackburn] date: footnotes: citations: Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn (Durham, NC), gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1999 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1999- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This page was part of the prayers for compline or the night prayer said at the end of the day before retiring, usually around 7 p.m. digital description: Books of Hours were Christian devotional books with texts, prayers and psalms for Christian devotion which were written primarily for laymen. They were popular in circles of the rich, educated nobility. Just like this leaf, which was probably made in France at the beginning of the 14th century, the pages of the Books of Hours often show elaborate decoration to invite the reader to take a closer look. After the great plague, individual piety flourished and the Book of Hours also experienced its heyday, especially in France and Flanders. wall description: Books of hours were Christian devotional books with texts, prayers, and psalms for Christian devotion written primarily for laymen. They were popular in circles of the rich, educated nobility. Just like this leaf, which was probably made in France at the beginning of the 1300s, the pages of the books of hours often show elaborate decoration to invite the reader to take a closer look. After the great plague, individual piety flourished and the book of hours also experienced its heyday, especially in France and Flanders. --- RELATED WORKS id: 169740 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Flight into Egypt (2 of 2 Excised Leaves), early 1300s. Northern France or Flanders, early 14th Century. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leaf: 13 x 9.7 cm (5 1/8 x 3 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.56 relationship: --- CITATIONS Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 26, cat. no. 17 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n38 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.126/1999.126_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.126/1999.126_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1999.126/1999.126_full.tif