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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Suffrage (St. Julian the Martyr)

Dateca. 1420-30
MediumInk, tempera and gold leaf on parchment
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/16 × 4 15/16 in. (17.9 × 12.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frederick B. Artz (OC 1916)
PortfolioOriginal title: "Leaf from a Book of Hours with Illuminated Miniature of St. Julian the Martyr" (changed 1995)
Object number1958.8
Status
Not on view
More Information
The Christian martyr Saint Julian stands at the center of this miniature, dressed in military regalia and holding various weapons. The fleur-de-lys, a symbol of the French monarchy, adorns the shield in Julian’s right hand, identifying him as a defender of French kings.
Exhibition History
Netherlandish Book Illumination
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 22, 1960 - May 12, 1960 )
Books of Revelation: Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts from Oberlin College Collections
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 31, 1995 - April 9, 1995 )
A Sense of Scale II: The Art of the Miniature
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 27, 1998 - January 31, 1999 )
Illuminated Manuscripts from the Thirteenth-Sixteenth Centuries
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 6, 2007 - June 2, 2007 )
Private Prayer, Public Performance: Religious Books of the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 29, 2013 - June 30, 2013 )
Collections
  • European