id: 164661 accession number: 2006.15 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.15 updated: 2022-09-02 09:01:11.931000 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1524 creation date earliest: 1519 creation date latest: 1529 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: North Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century technique: ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Each leaf: 16.6 x 13.5 cm (6 9/16 x 5 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main gallery rotation (Gallery 113): January 26, 2015 - --- PROVENANCE Mansfeld Family, Prussia, between Magdeburg and Merseburg, Germany date: 1500s footnotes: citations: Adrienne Louvignies Family date: Mid 1500s footnotes: citations: Compte d'Aspremont-Lynden date: 1800s footnotes: citations: Brothers Michael Linel (1830-1892) and Albert Linel (1833-1916) of Frankfurt am Main, Germany date: -1892 footnotes: citations: City of Frankfurt, Germany, for the Kunstgewerbemuseu, deaccessioned parent manuscript date: 1892-1953 footnotes: citations: [Sale: Sotheby's, London, 23 June 1987, lot 99, sold to Pairvel] date: 23 June 1987 footnotes: citations: Pairvel date: 1987- footnotes: citations: [Jörn Günther, Hamburg, Germany] date: footnotes: citations: [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn] date: footnotes: citations: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Durham, NC, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2011 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2011- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: This leaf reveals the charm of secular decoration such as satyrs or domestic activities like cooking. Such details would have been a sumptuous delight to the original owner. The original book was a highly personalized volume apparently written and illuminated in North Germany as suggested by internal textual references. The prominent inclusion of Saint Godehard (died 1038), Bishop of Hildesheim, in the calendar (not visible) would suggest that the manuscript was produced in that city. wall description: This leaf represent the charming, intricate decoration found throughout the parent volume, its leaves now dispersed. Virtually every border, recto and verso, was decorated with liquid gold and highlighted with a variety of flowers, fruits, and vegetables-carnations, thistles, roses, violets, peas, melons-as well as cornucopias, satyrs, masks, insects, birds, etc. The decoration is particularly charming because of the little vignettes within the borders. These motifs depict a girl kneading bread, a cook ladling soup, a goose nibbling grapes off a vine, and a satyr with a horn. Such details would have been a sumptuous delight to the original owner. This was a highly personalized volume, apparently written and illuminated in North Germany. The prominent mention of St. Godehard (died 1038), Bishop of Hildesheim in the original manuscript suggests that it was produced in that city. --- RELATED WORKS id: 169756 Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto) and Calendar Page with Peasant (verso), c. 1524. Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; 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 2011.67 relationship: id: 160829 Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Ornamental Border with Pea Vines and a Girl Kneading Bread (recto) and Ornamental Boarder with Carnations, a Thistle, and a Cook Ladling Soup (verso) (1 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1524. 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 1999.136 relationship: id: 518750 Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Rabbits Dancing (recto) and Putto Picking Strawberries (verso), c. 1524. Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; overall: 16.5 x 13.5 cm (6 1/2 x 5 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund relationship: --- 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 url: Sotheby's (Firm). Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. 1987. page number: Lot 99 url: Jörn Günther Antiquariat (Firm), and Jörn-Uwe Günther. Recent Acquisitions: Medieval & Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Hamburg: Jörn Günther Antiquariat, 1997. page number: url: 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.15/2006.15_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.15/2006.15_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.15/2006.15_full.tif