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Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion
c. 1480
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
In addition to the Virgin and St. John, this image includes a kneeling bishop (probably the donor of the manuscript) and a kneeling Carthusian monk along the lower right-hand edge. The manuscript may have been commissioned by this unknown bishop-donor and given to a Carthusian monastery with which he had some connection. Bishops frequently donated manuscripts to ecclesiastical foundations during the Middle Ages.
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- Title: Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion
- Date Created: c. 1480
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 22.9 x 15.9 cm (9 x 6 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, sold to Joseph Brummer, Joseph Brummer, NY, Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Manuscript
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.205
- Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Department: Medieval Art
- Culture: Bohemia or Silesia, 15th century
- Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
- Accession Number: 1949.205
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