id: 164541 accession number: 2006.10 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.10 updated: 2022-01-04 17:37:54.329000 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D, c. 1400. England, early 15th century. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 15.2 x 11.4 cm (6 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2006.10 title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1400 creation date earliest: 1395 creation date latest: 1405 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: England, early 15th century technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Each leaf: 15.2 x 11.4 cm (6 x 4 1/2 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 19, illus. p. 27. --- PROVENANCE [Graton and Graton, Evanston, Ill.] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Not all books of hours were decorated with conventional historiated initials or full-page miniatures containing figural scenes. The illuminator of this leaf incorporated a more subtle decorative scheme consisting of a large, flower-filled initial D for Deus that gives a focus to the page. A rectangular bar border with ivy leaf sprays punctuated with flowers in the corners flows from this initial. The layout is neat, yet elegant. The palette of orange-reds and pale blues is typically English. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. 27, cat. no. 19 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n39 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.10/2006.10_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.10/2006.10_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.10/2006.10_full.tif