Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Psalter: Nativity (verso)

Date

early 1200s

Medium

ink and tempera on parchment

Culture

Germany, Bavaria (possibly Prufening or Augsburg), 13th century

Department

Medieval Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Psalters were commonly used in monasteries and convents during the Middle Ages; the exact origin of this detached psalter leaf, however, is unclear. Stylistically it relates to a small number of manuscripts produced at Prüfening Abbey near Regensburg and to other examples associated with scriptoria at Augsburg from the early 1200s. Though its immediate source remains obscure, it is certainly South German.

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