Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Flight into Egypt (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
- Date
- early 1300s
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Culture
- Northern France or Flanders, early 14th Century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 169740
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
These initials introduce the text Deus in adiutorium meum intende (God come to my assistance). The borders include playful animals or humans engaged in assorted activities: a dog catching a hare; a lion; a peacock; and a woman winding yarn. The illuminators of books of hours, like the artists of psalters before them, continued to explore the possibilities suggested by open space on the page in order to showcase their ingenuity and delight the reader. All books of hours contain the same basic sections and were highly customizable.
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- Credit line
- The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
- Provenance
- [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn] | -2011: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, Florida, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2011-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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