id: 164661
accession number: 2006.15
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Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Initial E with Ornamental Border Containing a Seated Satyr and a Bird Eating Grapes (recto) and Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1524. North Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2006.15
title: Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Initial E with Ornamental Border Containing a Seated Satyr and a Bird Eating Grapes (recto) and Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
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creation date: c. 1524
creation date earliest: 1519
creation date latest: 1529
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creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture: North Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century
technique: ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Manuscript
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CREATORS
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measurements: Each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Main gallery rotation (Gallery 113): January 26, 2015 -
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PROVENANCE
Mansfeld Family, Prussia, between Magdeburg and Merseburg, Germany
date: 1500s
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Adrienne Louvignies Family
date: Mid 1500s
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Compte d'Aspremont-Lynden
date: 1800s
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Brothers Michael Linel (1830-1892) and Albert Linel (1833-1916) of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
date: -1892
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City of Frankfurt, Germany, for the Kunstgewerbemuseu, deaccessioned parent manuscript
date: 1892-1953
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[Sale: Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1987, lot 99, sold to Pairvel]
date: 23 June 1987
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Pairvel
date: 1987-
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[Jörn Günther, Hamburg, Germany]
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[Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn]
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Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Durham, NC, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -2011
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2011-
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CITATIONS
Schilling, Rosy, and Georg Swarzenski. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz. Frankfurt a.M.: J. Baer, 1929.
page number: no.151 pp.181–83
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Sotheby's (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. 1987.
page number: Lot 99
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Jörn Günther Antiquariat (Firm), and Jörn-Uwe Günther. Recent Acquisitions: Medieval & Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Hamburg: Jörn Günther Antiquariat, 1997.
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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. 68, cat. no. 66
url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n80
Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Music Chez Soi.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 142-186. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.
page number: Mentioned: P. 147; Reproduced: P. 148, fig. 79
url:
Bloomsbury Auctions (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures: Wednesday July 6, 2022 (2022).
page number: Lot 114
url:
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