Cutting from an Antiphonary: Initial G[loria tibi Trinitas]: The Trinity (c. 1410): Art, History and Details

Cutting from an Antiphonary: Initial G[loria tibi Trinitas]: The Trinity (c. 1410) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This beautiful initial comes from a choral book called an antiphonary. The text introduced by this initial is the antiphon that follows the reading of the nine psalms in the office of prime: Gloria tibi Trinitas... (Glory be to the Trinity). By the later Middle Ages, artists were representing the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) in the form shown here.

Object facts

• Title: Cutting from an Antiphonary: Initial G[loria tibi Trinitas]: The Trinity
• Date: c. 1410
• Culture: Bohemia, Prague, early 15th Century
• Type: Manuscript
• Technique: ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
• Dimensions: Sheet: 13 x 11 cm (5 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1949.537

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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