id:			160940
accession number:	1999.212
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.212
updated:		2024-04-23 11:00:37.529000

Single Leaf from a Gospel Book with a  Portrait of St. Luke, c. 1440–80. Central Ethiopia, 15th century. Ink and tempera on vellum; sheet: 37 x 25 cm (14 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1999.212

title:				Single Leaf from a Gospel Book with a  Portrait of St. Luke
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creation date:			c. 1440–80
creation date earliest:		1440
creation date latest:		1480
current location:		003 Special Exhibition Hall
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Central Ethiopia, 15th century
technique:	ink and tempera on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Sheet: 37 x 25 cm (14 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	ሥእለ ፡ ቅዱስ  ፡ ሉቃስ ፡ ዘዜነወ ፡ ባአምስለ ፡ ላሀም ፡ ጸሎቱ ፡ ወበረከቱ። ተሀሉ ፡ ምስሌነ፡ አሜን
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Africa & Byzantium
	opening date:   2023-11-13T05:00:00
	<i>Africa & Byzantium</i>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (November 14, 2023-March 3, 2024); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (April 14-July 21, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Bruce Ferrini Rare Books, Akron, Oh), sold 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

	Fliegel, Stephen "St. Luke in Ethiopia" <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Member's Magazine</em> (April 2000)
	page number: 	pp. 4-5
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2000-04/page/4/

	Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	p. 16 fig. 5
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	Heldman, Marilyn E. “Legends of Lālibalā: The Development of an Ethiopian Pilgrimage Site.” <em>Anthropology and Aestetics</em> 27 (Spring 1995)
	page number: 	pp. 25-38
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	Paris (France), and Fundació Caixa de Girona. L'arche éthiopienne: art chrétien d'Éthiopie : 27 septembre 2000-7 janvier 2001, Pavillon des arts. Paris: Paris musées, 2000.
	page number: 	Cat. No. 60
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	Heldman, Marilyn Eiseman, S. C. Munro-Hay, and Roderick Grierson. African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
	page number: 	p. 190
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	Heldman, Marilyn. “An Éwostāthian Style and the Gundā Gundē Style in Fifteenth-Century Ethiopian Manuscript Illumination.” <em>Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art</em> (London 1989)
	page number: 	pp. 5-14
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Rare Chinese Paintings, Baroque Porcelain Plaque and Other New Acquisitions Exhibited with Hanging Scrolls,” December 20, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4305

	Mercier, Jacques.<em> Art of Ethiopia: From the Origins to the Golden Century (330-1527).</em> 2021.
	page number: 	fig 217
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	Achi, Andrea Myers, et al. Africa and Byzantium. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 216, no. 121
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