Leaf from a Psalter: Nativity (verso) (early 1200s): Art, History and Details

Leaf from a Psalter: Nativity (verso) (early 1200s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Psalters were commonly used in monasteries and convents during the Middle Ages; the exact origin of this detached psalter leaf, however, is unclear. Stylistically it relates to a small number of manuscripts produced at Prüfening Abbey near Regensburg and to other examples associated with scriptoria at Augsburg from the early 1200s. Though its immediate source remains obscure, it is certainly South German.

Object facts

• Title: Leaf from a Psalter: Nativity (verso)
• Date: early 1200s
• Culture: Germany, Bavaria (possibly Prufening or Augsburg)
• Type: Manuscript
• Technique: ink and tempera on parchment
• Dimensions: Sheet: 19 x 15 cm (7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1951.447.b

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

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