id: 166364 accession number: 2008.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.2 updated: 2023-09-08 11:16:54.731000 Gothic Bible (Vulgate), c. 1275–1300. Southern France, Toulouse or Avignon, 13th century. Bound illuminated manuscript in Latin; brown morocco binding; ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; 533 leaves; closed: 35.6 x 24.2 cm (14 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2008.2 title: Gothic Bible (Vulgate) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1275–1300 creation date earliest: 1270 creation date latest: 1300 current location: 109 Gothic Painting and Sculpture creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Southern France, Toulouse or Avignon, 13th century technique: Bound illuminated manuscript in Latin; brown morocco binding; ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; 533 leaves department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Gothic type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Closed: 35.6 x 24.2 cm (14 x 9 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection opening date: 2010-11-06T00:00:00 The Glory of the Painted Page: Manuscript Illuminations from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 6, 2010-April 17, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE [Dr. Jörn Günther, Antiquariat, London], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2008 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 2008- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Original texts of the Old and New Testaments were written in Greek and Hebrew. digital description: wall description: Biblical manuscripts were highly prized and important possessions of churches, monasteries, cathedral schools, and universities throughout medieval Europe. The biblical texts were known as the vulgate, the translations made by Saint Jerome in the fourth century from Hebrew and Greek into Latin, which became the definitive and official Latin version of the Roman Church. In the 13th century, the bible was, for the first time, produced as a single volume with an officially sanctioned sequence to its books and chapters as illustrated by this example. The very extensive decoration of this bible is arranged hierarchically to indicate the relative importance of the various texts so that full or almost full-page initials mark the openings of the first prologue, Genesis, and the first Gospel; historiated initials mark the beginning of each book and illuminated initials mark the Prologues. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS BROOKE, Thomas. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke, and Preserved at Armitage Bridge House, Near Huddersfield. [With a Portrait.] L.P. Pp. vi. 759. Ellis & Elvey: London, 1891. page number: p. 50 url: University of Southern California. The Book As a Work of Art: An Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Mrs Edward Laurence Doheny : on View in the E.L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library, University of Southern California, February 19 to March 9, 1935. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1935. page number: no. 2 url: De Ricci, Seymour, W. J. Wilson, C. U. Faye, and W. H. Bond. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1935. page number: p. 21 url: Württembergische Landesbibliothek (Stuttgart). Die gotischen Handschriften der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1996. page number: pp. 366-75 url: Avril, François. L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils, 1285-1328. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1998. page number: pp. 329-334 url: Judkins, Ryan. “Illuminated Manuscripts of the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Nouvelles (November 2008) page number: pp. 7-11 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., "FILL THIS", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 48 no. 7 September 2008 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2008-07/page/6 Bilotta, M.A. "La Bibbia miniata Cleveland Museum of Art, MS 2008.2: un esempio dell’illustrazione della Bibbia lungo le coste del Mediterraneo, al crocevia tra l’Occitania e la Catalogna, fra XIII e XIV secolo", Hortus Artium Medievalium 20 (2014). page number: pp. 339-356 url: https://www.academia.edu/8311457/M_A_Bilotta_La_Bibbia_miniata_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art_MS_2088_2_un_esempio_dell_illustrazione_della_Bibbia_lungo_le_coste_del_Mediterraneo_al_crocevia_tra_l_Occitania_e_la_Catalogna_fra_XIII_e_XIV_secolo_in_Hortus_Artium_Medievalium_20_2014_pp_339_356 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.2/2008.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.2/2008.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.2/2008.2_full.tif