Cleveland Museum of Art

Miniature Excised from a Psalter: The Nativity

Date: c. 1270
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Culture: England, London(?), 13th century
Department: Medieval Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

This miniature survives with other fragments from a psalter preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It has been suggested that the manuscript may have been made for Queen Eleanor of Provence who became a nun of Amesbury in England following the death of her husband, King Henry III. The style and high quality of this miniature supports its association with a deluxe manuscript psalter made for a high-ranking patron.

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