id: 160822
accession number: 1999.131
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Leaf from an Antiphonary: Historiated Initial P with the Prophet Samuel; Arms of the Visconti Family and the Olivetan Order, c. 1439–1447. Olivetan Master (Italian). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 59.3 x 42.7 cm (23 3/8 x 16 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 1999.131
title: Leaf from an Antiphonary: Historiated Initial P with the Prophet Samuel; Arms of the Visconti Family and the Olivetan Order
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creation date: c. 1439–1447
creation date earliest: 1434
creation date latest: 1452
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creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture: Italy, Milan, 15th century
technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Manuscript
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CREATORS
* Olivetan Master (Italian) - artist
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measurements: Each leaf: 59.3 x 42.7 cm (23 3/8 x 16 13/16 in.)
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inscription: Responsorium 1
Loquie domine quia audit servus tuus : Ait Samuel
Preparate Corda vestra domino et Servite illi soli et liberabit nos de manibus inimicorum vestorum Confitemini ad deum...
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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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).
title: Illuminated Manuscripts
opening date: 2004-10-10T00:00:00
Illuminated Manuscripts. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 2004-October 2, 2005).
title: The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection
opening date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00
The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011).
title: Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115
opening date: 2015-12-10T05:00:00
Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 10, 2015-December 12, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
[Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn]
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Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, Fl, 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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This leaf is distinguished by a large initial P depicting Samuel, the last and one of the greatest of Israel’s judges. It introduces the text Preparte corda vestra domino et servite (“Prepare your hearts for the Lord and serve”). In the lower margin are the arms of the Visconti family, rulers of Milan, featuring an eagle (left) and a coiled serpent (right). At bottom center is the emblem of the Olivetan Order, a reformed branch of the Benedictines founded in 1319 known as the “white monks.” The Olivetan monastery in Milan was founded in 1400 and it appears that this leaf belonged to a set of choral books presented to the monastery by one of the Visconti, perhaps about 1439–47. The so-called Olivetan Master takes his name from a luxuriously illustrated psalter made for the order’s monastery in Milan, where he was undoubtedly a monk.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Ricci, Seymour de, William Jerome Wilson, Anne M. Nill, and W. H. Bond. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 1935.
page number: II, p. 2210
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Stones, Alison, "An Italian Miniature in the Gabier-Parry Collection," Burlington Magazine 111 (1969).
page number: 7-12, figs. 6-12
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Toesca, Ilaria, "In margine al Magister Vitae Imperatorum," Paragone (1969).
page number: pp. 73-77
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National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Carl Nordenfalk, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Edith Goodkind Rosenwald. Medieval & Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art: [Catalogue]. [Washington]: The Gallery, 1975.
page number: pp. 61-65, cat. no. 19
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Todini, Filippo, and Milvia Bollati. Una collezione di miniature italiane: dal Duecento al Cinquecento : catalogo. Milano: Studio Nella Longari, 1993.
page number: Pt. I, pp. 56-59
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Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 76, cat. no. 74
url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n88
Bollati, Milvia, Olivetan Master, and Master of the Lodi Choir Books. The Olivetan Gradual: Its Place in Fifteenth-Century Lombard Manuscript Illumination. London: Sam Fogg, 2008.
page number: p. 12, fig. 2
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Bollati, Milvia, Olivetan Master, and Master of the Lodi Choir Books. The Olivetan Gradual: Its Place in Fifteenth-Century Lombard Manuscript Illumination. London: Sam Fogg, 2008.
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