Single Leaf Excised from a Gradual and Sacramentary: Initial A[d te lavavi] (c. 1000–1010): Art, History and Details

Single Leaf Excised from a Gradual and Sacramentary: Initial A[d te lavavi] (c. 1000–1010) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

A large initial A introduces the opening words from Psalm 25, Ad te levavi animam meam (Unto thee have I lifted up my soul). The volume to which this leaf belonged may have been produced in the scriptorium of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter at Salzburg.

Object facts

• Title: Single Leaf Excised from a Gradual and Sacramentary: Initial A[d te lavavi]
• Date: c. 1000–1010
• Culture: Austria, Salzburg
• Type: Manuscript
• Technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
• Dimensions: Sheet: 22 x 16.7 cm (8 11/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1933.447

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.

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