Bird-shaped Urn (2650–2350 BCE): Art, History and Details
Bird-shaped Urn at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 2650–2350 BCE, earthenware with slip-painted decoration. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
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Bird-shaped Urn at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 2650–2350 BCE, earthenware with slip-painted decoration. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Liberty Enlightening the World, Offered to the City of Paris by the Americans at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1885, wood engraving. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Deer-Headed Figure Vessel at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 200–850 CE, ceramic, slip. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Gothic Bible (Vulgate) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 1r, Genesis, with a full-length historiated initial I, showing the Creation and the Crucifixion, all on burnished gold grounds, with diapered pink and blue frames and cusped dragon and foliage extensions at top and bottom, on which are

Fol. 112r, Kings II, historiated initial F, the beheading of the Amalekite at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 123r, Kings III, historiated initial E, an attendant bringing Abishag to David who lies on a bed at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collect

Fol. 136r, Kings IV, historiated initial P, Ahaziah falling from a tower at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 148v, Chronicles I, historiated initial A, three descendants of Adam at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 160r, Chronicles II, historiated initial C, Solomon kneeling before an altar praying, a bust of God above at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution an

Fol. 174v, Ezra, historiated initial I, Cyrus directing the building of the Temple at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 178v, Nehemiah, historiated initial V, Nehemiah presenting the golden cup to Artaxerxes at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection histo

Fol. 184r, Ezra II, historiated initial E, a priest censing an altar at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 190r,Tobit, historiated initial T, Tobit sleeping on a bed at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 194r, Judith, historiated initial A, Judith beheading Holofernes at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 199r, Esther, historiated initial, two seated male figures at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 20v, Exodus, historiated initial H, Moses and two followers with the tablets of the law at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection histo

Fol. 36r, Leviticus, historiated initial V, Moses offering a sacrificial lamb on an altar at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 46v, Numbers, historiated initial L, Moses with horns, kneeling before God at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 62v, Deuteronomy, historiated initial H, Moses with horns and scroll preaching to two men at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection his

Fol. 76v, Joshua, historiated initial E, Joshua with a scroll kneeling before God at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 86r, Judges, historiated initial R, Judah seated with a book talking to God at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 96r, Ruth, Historiated Initial I with Elimilech and Naomi. at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 98r, Kings I, historiated initial F, Elkanah and Hannah kneeling before an altar with God appearing above at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution an

Fol. ir: Prologue, St. Jerome, large historiated initial I, the saint in a brown habit writing at a desk in a gothic architectural frame, with full-length border of foliage and small hybrids, a hare, a dog and a grotesque perched on the fol

Fol. 205r, Job, historiated initial V, Job on the dungheap given a gold earring by one of his sisters at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collect

Fol. 214v, Psalm 1, historiated initial 8, David harping at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 218r, Psalm 26, historiated initial D, David kneeling pointing to his eyes, the bust of God above at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collec

Fol. 220v, Psalm 38, historiated initial D, David kneeling, gesturing to the bust of God above at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection his

Fol. 222v, Psalm 52, historiated initial D, a fool naked but for a cloak, holding a bladder, bust of God above at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution an

Fol. 224v, Psalm 68, historiated initial S, David in the water appealing to God above at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 227v, Psalm 80, historiated initial E, David hitting a carillon of hells at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 230r, Psalm 97, historiated initial C, two clerics singing at a lectern. at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 233r, Psalm 109, historiated initial D, God the Father and Son, the Holy Ghost between them at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection h

Fol. 238r, Proverbs, historiated initial P, Solomon instructing Rehoboam at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 247v, Ecclesiastes, historiated initial V, Solomon teaching at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 249v, Song of Songs, historiated initial O, theVirgin and Child at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 251 r, Wisdom, historiated initial D, Solomon instructing a soldier at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Fol. 257r, Ecclesiasticus, historiated initial O, Sirach seated with a scroll, bust of God above at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection h

Fol. 273r, Isaiah, historiated initial V, the martyrdom of Isaiah at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1275–1300, ink, tempera and gold on vellum. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.