Sujet

Single Leaf Excised from a Gospel Book with Initial L[iber generationis]: St. Matthew (verso), c1190 Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Single Leaf Excised from a Gospel Book with Initial L[iber generationis]: St. Matthew (verso), c. 1190. The text introduced the gospel of Saint Matthew: Liber generationis. . . . (The book of the generation of Jesus Christ. . . .). The Evangelist Matthew is represented in half length holding an unfurled scroll surrounded by a meandering vine, which creates the vertical element of the letter L . To the right of the saint is the letter I . Beneath the I , the artist cleverly incorporated the letters BER (the remaining letters in the word "LIBER") to form the horizontal element of the letter L .

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM19G05_166

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,2Mo (3,4Mo) / 32,2cm x 46,1cm / 3800 x 5447 (300dpi)

Mots clés

argent encre manuscrit manuscript Unknown The Cleveland Museum of Art Heritage Art and gold on vellum ink tempera silver and gold on vellum Helmarshausen Abbey