Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
c. 1465
Master of Jacques de Luxembourg
Master of Jacques de Luxembourg (French)
Medieval Art
Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves), c. 1465. Master of Jacques de Luxembourg (French). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.63 The owner of a book of hours was intended to stop eight times a day and read the appropriate devotional text.
- Maker/Artist
- Master of Jacques de Luxembourg
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Formatted Medium
- ink, tempera and gold on vellum
- Dimensions
- Leaf: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Memore de madame ste barbe Translation: Memorial to my lady St. Barbara Remark: Recto Inscription: Oratio: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui… corpus beatae Barbare Translation: Prayer: Grant, we beseech, omnipotent one Remark: Verso
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 2011.63
- Credit Line
- The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
- Exhibitions
- The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 115 Manuscripts & Textiles
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