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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Master of the Queen Mary Psalter Creator Qualifier: Follower of Creator Nationality: European; British Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: c. 1380 - 1439 Creator Name-CRT: Master of the Queen Mary Psalter Title: Leaf from a Psalter: Initial D: The Trinity Title Type: Primary Title: Historiated Initial D with The Trinity: Excised Leaf from a Psalter Title Type: Former View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1305 Creation End Date: 1315 Creation Date: c.1310 Object Type: Books Classification Term: Manuscript Materials and Techniques: ink, tempera and gold on vellum Dimensions: Each leaf: 26.7cm x 17.5cm AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1999.125 Credit Line: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: Parish church of St. Botulph at Iken in Suffolk; [Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1969, lot 36 (for sister leaves)]; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron] Context: Follower of the Master of the Queen Mary Psalter (England, East Anglia)Leaf from a Psalter:Initial D: The Trinity, about 1310Ink, tempera, and gold on vellumThe Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection CMA 1999.125[Cat. no. 15 ]The text of Psalm 109 is introduced by a large initial "D" for Dixit dominus domino (The Lord said unto my Lord), within which appears the Trinity. In the early days of the Christian Church, artists were reluctant to represent naturalistically the first person of the Trinity (God the Father), who, being unseen was also unknowable. By the 12th century, however, northern artists began to portray God the Father in human form, along with Christ, seated to his right, and the Holy Ghost, symbolized by a dove. Psalm 109 is nearly universally interpreted as God the Father speaking to Christ. In French and English psalters, God and Christ are typically enthroned together, with the dove descending between them.The white flesh tones, elegant wavy coiffures, and elongated fingers of the figures relate this leaf to what is probably the most "Parisian" of all surviving English illuminated manuscripts of the early 1300s, the Queen Mary Psalter (London, British Library), named after the 16th-century English queen who seems to have once owned it. The workshop of the Queen Mary Psalter was active in East Anglia from about 1310 to 1335, though its specific location remains unknown. It presumably competed with workshops in Norwich, Cambridge, Bury St. Edmunds, and the so-called "Fenland" workshops. AMICA ID: CMA_.1999.125 AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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