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accession number:	2011.68
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Cutting from a Gradual: Initial I with Departure of Tobias, c. 1390. "Master of Noah's Ark" (Italian). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leaf: 17.8 x 17.4 cm (7 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.68

title:				Cutting from a Gradual: Initial I with Departure of Tobias
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creation date:			c. 1390
creation date earliest:		1385
creation date latest:		1395
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creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture:	Italy, Florence, 14th century
technique:	ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

* "Master of Noah's Ark" (Italian)  - artist

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measurements: Leaf: 17.8 x 17.4 cm (7 x 6 7/8 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).

	title:		Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115
	opening date:   2015-12-10T05:00:00
	<i>Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 10, 2015-December 12, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Sir Kenneth Clark, Saltwood Castle, Kent (1903-1983)
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	[Sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1984, lot 88]
	date: July 3, 1984
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	[H. Kraus, New York, NY]
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	[Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn]
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	Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn, 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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fun fact:
The volume from which this leaf comes is located at the central library of the Augustinian Province of Italy.

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wall description:
The Master of Noah’s Ark was named after an illuminated initial containing that subject now in the Vatican Library. Though he may have worked in Florence, he was unlikely to have been Florentine himself. This rare miniature depicts the story from the apocrypha of Tobias, son of Tobit, a devout Jew in exile who is blind and destitute. Sent out to visit relatives in a distant city in order to find a means of supporting the family, the young Tobias is guided by the Archangel Raphael. This miniature shows the sad and traumatic moment of Tobias’s departure in “continuous narrative” within the same scene (right to left). Within the doorway Tobit and his wife, Anna, are apprehensive. In the center, Tobit prays to God, represented here as the Trinity with two faces and the flame of the Holy Ghost. On the left, Tobias departs with his staff over his shoulder. This initial<em> I </em>would have introduced the text <em>Inclina, Domine, aurem tuam ad me</em> (Turn your ear, O Lord, and hear me). It marks the opening of the 15th Sunday after Pentecost and the beginning of the Introit to the Mass.
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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. 75, cat. no. 73
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n87

	Signorello, Lucrezia "Musica picta restituta. La libreria di coro di Sant'Agostino di Siena e il ritrovamento dei cutting miniati," <em>Analecta Augustiniana </em>Vol. LXXXC (2022).
	page number: 	p. 256-7, 280, 288, note 95, fig. 33-34
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	Signorello, Lucrezia, "Cutting e dintorni. La Libreria di coro di Sant'Agostino de Siena tra conservazione e dispersione," <em>Teca </em>Vol. 12 No. 6ns (2022).
	page number: 	p. 37, note 32, figs 5-6,
	url:		https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-3604/15775

	"Viterbo, Archivio storico, Biblioteca centrale e Raccolte artistiche della Provincia Agostiniana d'Italia, Siena, Convento di Sant'Agostino, ms. 4" <em>Manus Online: Manuscripts in Italian Libraries, </em>(2023).<em><br></em>
	page number: 	CNMD\0000293487
	url:		https://manus.iccu.sbn.it/risultati-ricerca-manoscritti/-/manus-search/cnmd/0000293487?

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