Leaf from a Bible, No. 14

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Leaf from a Bible, No. 14

Place of OriginParis, France

Datelate 13th century

Dimensions15 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (40 x 26.7 cm)

Mediumink and tempera on vellum

ClassificationManuscripts

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1953.129N

Not on View

Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 107, repr. (col.).Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Art of the Bible, The Bible as Art, Hitchcock Gallery, Nov, 2001-Jan. 2002.Label TextThis illuminated leaf was made in the "golden age" of medieval manuscripts, after Louis IX (Saint Louis) had made France the mightiest power in Europe. Paris was the great center for manuscript production. The bar borders and the foliated scroll work are types of decoration that persisted for almost two hundred years.