cma-medieval-art: Leaf Excised from Henry of Segusio’s “Summa Aurea”: Table of Consanguinity, c. 128
cma-medieval-art: Leaf Excised from Henry of Segusio’s “Summa Aurea”: Table of Consanguinity, c. 1280, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval ArtHenry of Segusio, a professor of law at the universities of Bologna and Paris, died at Lyon in 1271. His Summa Aurea (Golden Summary) was an early treatise on canon law (church law) that was so important that it was repeatedly copied after his death. This leaf comes from one such early copy.Size: Sheet: 44.2 x 27.5 cm (17 3/8 x 10 13/16 in.)Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on parchmenthttps://clevelandart.org/art/1954.1 -- source link