Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew
1057–1063
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Leaf from a Lectionary with St. Matthew, 1057–1063. Byzantium, Constantinople, 11th century. Tempera and gold on vellum; sheet: 28.8 x 24.3 cm (11 5/16 x 9 9/16 in.); framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.1512 Early Gospel lectionaries often had very costly treasure bindings in metalwork, sometimes with jewels and ivories.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Formatted Medium
- tempera and gold on vellum
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 28.8 x 24.3 cm (11 5/16 x 9 9/16 in.); Framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); Matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1942.1512
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Byzantine Art: A European Art, Greek and Byzantine Manuscripts, Gifts from the Byzantine Court, Scriptorium: The Illuminated Book in Medieval Art, The Glory of Byzantium, Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Early Christian and Byzantine Art" April 24 - June 24, 1947; cat. no. 700, pl. XCVIII., Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, "Early Christian and Medieval Art" February 1 - February 28, 1949., Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art "Ecclesiastical Art" December 6, 1954 - January 30, 1955., Oberlin, OH, The Dudley Peter Allen Memorial Art Museum, "Byzantine Manuscript Illumination" December 2 - December 20, 1957; cat. no. 3, pl. 3., Berkely, CA, University Art Gallery, University of California, "Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Mansuscripts" April 24 - June 8, 1963; cat. no. 5, pl. VI., Athens, "Council of Europe "Byzantine Art, A European Art" April 1 - June 15, 1964; cat. no. 309., Princeton, University Art Museum "Greek Manuscripts from American Collections: An Exhibition in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann" 1973., New York, Pierpont-Morgan Library, 12/7/1979--6/16/1980., Washington D.C., Dumbarton Oaks, "Three Pages from the Phanar Gospels" February 4 - June 1, 1980., Exposition d'Art Byzantin, Paris, (March 28 - Jul 1931); cat. no. 653. (Phanar Gospel with the Mark and John still in it)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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