Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf from a Greek Psalter and New Testament
- Date
- 1084
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Culture
- Byzantium, Constantinople
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 127472
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Covering half the page of this leaf is a miniature representing the Apostle Peter. Below are 13 lines of Greek text introduced by the Greek letter pi which is created by figures of Christ and Saint Peter. The leaf comes from a combined psalter (book of sacred songs) and the New Testament. In its design, it shows close parallels with examples that were created in Constantinople workshops. Imported illuminated manuscripts were important in spreading the Byzantine style throughout Western Europe.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- -1950: Vladimir G. Simkhovitch, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1950-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
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