Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D
- Date
- c. 1400
- Medium
- ink, tempera and gold on vellum
- Culture
- England, early 15th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Not all books of hours were decorated with conventional historiated initials or full-page miniatures containing figural scenes. The illuminator of this leaf incorporated a more subtle decorative scheme consisting of a large, flower-filled initial D for Deus that gives a focus to the page. A rectangular bar border with ivy leaf sprays punctuated with flowers in the corners flows from this initial. The layout is neat, yet elegant. The palette of orange-reds and pale blues is typically English.
The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Flight into Egypt (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial H
Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf from a Book of Hours
Getty Museum
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Initial D: Massacre of the Innocents (1 of 2 Excised Leaves)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf from a Book of Hours (recto and verso)
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text with Illustrated Border (verso)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Decorated Initial D
Getty Museum
Decorated Initial O; Inhabited Initial D
Getty Museum
Leaf from a Psalter with Historiated Initial (B): King David
Cleveland Museum of Art
Historiated Initial from a Bible
Getty Museum
The Nativity: Leaf from a Book of Hours (3 of 6 Excised Leaves)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Annunciation to the Shepherds: Leaf from a Book of Hours (1 of 6 Excised Leaves)
Cleveland Museum of Art