id:			169748
accession number:	2011.63
share license status:	CC0
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves), c. 1465. Master of Jacques de Luxembourg (French). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.63

title:				Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
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series:				
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creation date:			c. 1465
creation date earliest:		1460
creation date latest:		1470
current location:		115 Manuscripts & Textiles
creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	France, Eastern France or Paris (?), 15th century
technique:	ink, tempera and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Master of Jacques de Luxembourg (French)  - artist

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measurements: Leaf: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Memore de madame ste barbe
	translation:	
	remark:		

	inscription:	Oratio: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui… corpus beatae Barbare
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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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).

	title:		The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation)
	opening date:   2022-08-26T04:00:00
	<i>The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Damascène Morgand, Paris, France, sold to Thomas Yates Thompson
	date: -1894
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	Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), London, England
	date: 1894-1904
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	(Sale: Sotheby's, London, May 3, 1904, no. 31)
	date: May 3, 1904
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	[Bruce Ferrini, Akron, Ohio], sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn
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	Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, Fl, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -2011
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
	date: 2011-
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fun fact:
The owner of a book of hours was intended to stop eight times a day and read the appropriate devotional text.

digital description:


wall description:
Saint Barbara was popular in France, known for being imprisoned in a tower by her father and living as a hermit. In piety, she asked builders to construct her three windows to symbolize the Holy Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Her father, enraged by her conversion to Christianity, killed her, after which he was struck by lightning from heaven. She was seen as a protector from sudden death, a common medieval concern, and the patron saint of architects and builders. The text on this leaf is in French, as opposed to Latin.
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		169750
	Leaf from a Book of Hours: Calendar Page for May (recto) and Calendar Page for June (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1510. France, Rouen, 16th century. Ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum; leaf: 18.1 x 12.9 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.65
	relationship: 	

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CITATIONS

	Thompson, Henry Yates, and M. R. James.<em> A Descriptive Catalogue of Fifty Manuscripts from the Collection of Henry Yates Thompson.</em> Cambridge [England]: University Press, 1898.
	page number: 	no.15
	url:		

	Sotheby, Wilkinson &amp; Hodge. <em>Catalogue of Valuable Books and Illuminated and Other Manuscripts: Which Will Be Sold by Auction ... on Tuesday, the 3rd Day of May, 1904</em>. London: Sotheby, Wilkinson &amp; Hodge, 1904.
	page number: 	no. 31
	url:		

	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. 53, cat. no. 51
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n65

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