id:			160822
accession number:	1999.131
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/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. 1439–47. 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. 1439–47
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
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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inscriptions:

	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
	<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).

	title:		The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   2010-11-06T00:00:00
	<i>The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection</i>. 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
	<i>Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115</i>. 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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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ricci, Seymour de, William Jerome Wilson, Anne M. Nill, and W. H. Bond. <em>Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada</em>. 1935.
	page number: 	II, p. 2210
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	Stones, Alison, "An Italian Miniature in the Gabier-Parry Collection," <em>Burlington Magazine 111</em> (1969).
	page number: 	7-12, figs. 6-12
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	Toesca, Ilaria, "In margine al Magister Vitae Imperatorum," <em>Paragone </em>(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. <em>Medieval &amp; Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art:</em> [Catalogue]. [Washington]: The Gallery, 1975.
	page number: 	pp. 61-65, cat. no. 19
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	Todini, Filippo, and Milvia Bollati. <em>Una collezione di miniature italiane: dal Duecento al Cinquecento </em>: catalogo. Milano: Studio Nella Longari, 1993.
	page number: 	Pt. I, pp. 56-59
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	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. 76, cat. no. 74
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n88

	Bollati, Milvia, Olivetan Master, and Master of the Lodi Choir Books.<em> The Olivetan Gradual: Its Place in Fifteenth-Century Lombard Manuscript Illumination</em>. 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. <em>The Olivetan Gradual: Its Place in Fifteenth-Century Lombard Manuscript Illumination. </em>London: Sam Fogg, 2008.
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