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accession number:	1999.137.1
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Three Cuttings from a Missal: Initial L with the Annunciation to the Shepherds, c. 1470–1500. Germany, Franconia or Saxony (?) or Silesia (?), 15th century. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 17.6 x 9 cm (6 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 1999.137.1

title:				Three Cuttings from a Missal: Initial L with the Annunciation to the Shepherds
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creation date:			c. 1470–1500
creation date earliest:		1465
creation date latest:		1505
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creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture:	Germany, Franconia or Saxony (?) or Silesia (?), 15th century
technique:	ink, tempera and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Each leaf: 17.6 x 9 cm (6 15/16 x 3 9/16 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

* CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 78, illus. p. 80.

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PROVENANCE

	[Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
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These three cuttings are illuminated in a style that is somewhat provincial and difficult to localize. The figures relate to late 15th-century German woodcut illustration, but also vaguely recall Franconian sculpture and Saxon painting. The figures are simply, though charmingly, sketched in heavy black ink with little attention to finesse of line or detail. The palette is confined to dark hues of red, blue, and ochre with flesh tones either left white or colored pink. The style hints at an origin in Franconia, Saxony, or Silesia. The initial <em>E</em> includes a form of musical notation called Hufnagalshrift or "horseshoe nail writing" because it resembles the nails used to attached horseshoes. Hufnagalshrift appears almost exclusively in manuscripts produced in Germanic Central Europe. The use of different colored lines in the musical stave is a known feature of Saxony. The text <em>Exultet iam angelica</em> (Rejoice now angel) begins the prayer used only on Holy Saturday during the Easter Vigil. It was sung by the priest at Mass to a very special and ancient melody.
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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. 80, cat. no. 78
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n92

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