Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1430): Art, History and Details

Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1430) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Although the Hours of the Virgin are traditionally illustrated with scenes from the early life of Christ, sometimes the Passion of Christ, or the events leading up to and immediately after the Crucifixion, are used. This scene of Christ carrying the cross, used for the sixth hour (Sext), is placed between a scene of flagellation, or beating, and the Crucifixion. This book of hours uses the feminine pronoun in prayers, indicating that it had a female owner.

Object facts

• Title: Leaf Excised from the Tarleton Hours: Christ Carrying the Cross
• Date: c. 1430
• Culture: Northern France, Normandy, Rouen?, 15th century
• Type: Manuscript
• Technique: ink, tempera, silver, and gold on vellum
• Dimensions: Overall: 15.3 x 11.1 cm (6 x 4 3/8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 2001.77

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Collection credit

The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Christie, Manson & Woods. Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Early Documents and Seals and Autograph Letters ...: Which Will Be Sold at Auction ... on Tuesday, July 3, 1951. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1951.
• Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.

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