About the Artwork
Leaf: Abelard with Scroll
14th century
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French
French
Tempera on parchment, backed on (?)
Sheet: 6 3/8 × 4 1/8 inches (16.2 × 10.5 cm)
Manuscripts
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. John S. Newberry
25.29
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, on scroll: Domino meo imo patri conjugi meo imo fratri ancilla sua imo filia ipsius auxor imo soror Abaelardo, Heloise
Provenance
Georges Spetz, Alsace, France
his sale, "Highly Interesting and Valuable....," American Art Association, 16 January 1925
Brummer Gallery (dealer), New York
purchased for the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) by Mrs. John S. Newberry, Grosse Pointe Farms
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DeRicci, S. and Wilson, W.J. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1937, vol. 2, p. 1133.
Bulletin of the DIA 6, no. 7 (1925): pp. 76-77.
Kurz, O. Fakes. New Haven, 1948, p. 89, pl. 16 (as fake).
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French, Leaf: Abelard with Scroll, 14th century, tempera on parchment, backed on (?). Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. John S. Newberry, 25.29.
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