Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (c. 1480): Art, History and Details

Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (c. 1480) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

In addition to the Virgin and St. John, this image includes a kneeling bishop (probably the donor of the manuscript) and a kneeling Carthusian monk along the lower right-hand edge. The manuscript may have been commissioned by this unknown bishop-donor and given to a Carthusian monastery with which he had some connection. Bishops frequently donated manuscripts to ecclesiastical foundations during the Middle Ages.

Object facts

• Title: Single Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion
• Date: c. 1480
• Culture: Bohemia or Silesia, 15th century
• Type: Manuscript
• Technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
• Dimensions: Sheet: 22.9 x 15.9 cm (9 x 6 1/4 in.)
• Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1949.205

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.

View the collection record

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