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accession number:	2011.55
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Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D: A Fool Rebuked by God, c. 1300-1320. Northern France or Flanders, St. Omer or Thèrouanne, 14th century. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 10.7 x 7.8 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.55

title:				Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D: A Fool Rebuked by God
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creation date:			c. 1300-1320
creation date earliest:		1295
creation date latest:		1325
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creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture:	Northern France or Flanders, St. Omer or Thèrouanne, 14th century
technique:	ink, tempera and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Leaf: 10.7 x 7.8 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations
	opening date:   1999-12-19T00:00:00
	<i>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 16, illus. p. 24.

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PROVENANCE

	[Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
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wall description: 
The decorative marginal outgrowths, or extenders, of this initial include an assortment of drolleries—grotesque, often hybridized little figures that typically engage in amusing and diversionary activities. Drolleries are often shown playing musical instruments. Here one may be seen playing a <em>vielle</em>, an early stringed instrument played with a bow. The profusion of drolleries and whimsical marginalia in illuminated manuscripts, especially psalters, became increasingly popular around 1300, a phenomenon that has been much analyzed by scholars. Probably produced for a pious lay clientele, the margins of these tiny psalters are filled with endlessly varied and often highly animated animals, persons of every occupation (including clerics), hybrids, and monsters. Their function was often satirical and was clearly meant to amuse and give enjoyment. They may have also functioned as a kind of visual cue, enabling a book's user to locate specific pages and texts.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 24, cat. no. 16
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n36

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