Bifolium Excised from a Carolingian Gradual
c. 830–60
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Bifolium Excised from a Carolingian Gradual, c. 830–60. Germany or Northeastern France, 9th century. Gold and silver ink on purple parchment; sheet: 29 x 10 cm (11 7/16 x 3 15/16 in.); framed: 39.4 x 52.1 x 3.2 cm (15 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1933.446
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Formatted Medium
- gold and silver ink on purple parchment
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 29 x 10 cm (11 7/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Framed: 39.4 x 52.1 x 3.2 cm (15 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1933.446
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art, 799 - Art and Culture of the Carolingian Period, Illuminated Manuscripts, Devotion and Leaning in the Middle Ages- (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115, Baltimore, Maryland: Baltimore Museum of Art: "Western European Illuminated Manuscripts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance" January 27-March 13, 1949, p. 2., The Royal Ontario Musuem of Archaeology: "Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts" April 1-May 31, 1950.<br> <br>Los Angeles County Museum: "Exhibition of Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts" November 24, 1953-March 13, 1949., Paderborn, Germany: Diözesanmuseum (7/23/99 - 11/1/99), "799-Art and Culture of the Carolingian Period", The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/10/2004 - 10/02/2005); "Illuminated Manuscripts"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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