Leaf from a Volume of Johannes Andrea's "Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis: Table of Affinity" (c. 1331): Art, History and Details

Leaf from a Volume of Johannes Andrea's "Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis: Table of Affinity" (c. 1331) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Master of the Register of 1328 (Italian).

The work and its context

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

The two leaves shown here come from Iohannes Andrea's widely circulated treatise on marriage impediments. The writer lived until 1348 and is known as the most learned of the lay canonists of the Middle Ages. He taught for nearly fifty years at the University of Bologna, where his lectures on both canon and Roman law made him famous.

Object facts

• Title: Leaf from a Volume of Johannes Andrea's "Lectura super arboris consanguinitatis et affinitatis: Table of Affinity"
• Date: c. 1331
• Creator attribution: Master of the Register of 1328 (Italian)
• Culture: Italy, Bologna
• Type: Manuscript
• Technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum
• Dimensions: Sheet: 24.5 x 17.1 cm (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1982.139.1

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Freudenheim in memory of Otto Ege

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3–55. Published as: The First Parents: Adam and Eve
• Winter, Patrick M. de. “Bolognese Miniatures at the Cleveland Museum.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 8 (October 1983): 314–351.

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