id:			164661
accession number:	2006.15
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.15
updated:		2023-12-05 11:06:37.236000

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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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. <em>Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und der Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz</em>. Frankfurt a.M.: J. Baer, 1929.
	page number: 	no.151 pp.181–83
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	Sotheby's (Firm). <em>Western Manuscripts and Miniatures.</em> 1987.
	page number: 	Lot 99
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	Jörn Günther Antiquariat (Firm), and Jörn-Uwe Günther.<em> Recent Acquisitions: Medieval &amp; Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. </em>Hamburg: Jörn Günther Antiquariat, 1997.
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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. 68, cat. no. 66
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n80

	Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Music Chez Soi.’” In <em>Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900</em>. 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
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	Bloomsbury Auctions (Firm). <em>Western Manuscripts and Miniatures</em>: <em>Wednesday July 6, 2022</em> (2022).
	page number: 	Lot 114
	url:		

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