Leaf from Gratian's DECRETUM: Bishop Swearing Falsely, early 14th century

  • French

Ink, tempera and gold on parchment

  • Sheet (irregular): 17 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (43.8 × 28.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, General Endowment Fund

61.248.B

by 1961, (Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles, California, USA)

1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bilotta, M. A. "Un manuscrit de droit canonique toulousain reconstitué: le Décret de Gratien." Art de l'enluminure, 24 (2008): pp. 6, 13, 48; repro pp. 11 (detail), 48 (detail of column miniature), 49 (cropped on right) (whole article pp. 2-65; from Toulouse, first decades of 14th century). Melnikas, A. Corpus of the Miniatures in the Manuscripts of Decretum Gratiani. Rome, 1975, vol. 2, p. 700 (fig. 26). Schwartz, N., and Withers, J. "A Page from a Medieval Manuscript." Bulletin of the DIA 42, no. 2 (1962-63): p. 27 (as Northern French, possibly Picardy / Artois, with standardized glosses written by Bartolomeo of Brescia)

French, Leaf from Gratian's DECRETUM: Bishop Swearing Falsely, early 14th century, ink, tempera and gold on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Endowment Fund, 61.248.B.