Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Fishing (verso)

Description

This leaf shows the second half of Psalm 142. The page’s first line reads, “Non avertas faciem tuam a me,” or “Turn not away thy face from me.” This last page of the penitential psalms immediately precedes the litany of saints, which begins on the other side of this leaf. Below the text stands an ape fishing at a small pond across from a large bird, a scene possibly from a fable or simply meant to be amusing or diversionary.

Provenance

[Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1984, lot 127]; [Graton and Graton, Evanston, Ill.]; Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art (-2006); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2006-)

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Fishing (verso)

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c. 1500–1510

Accession Number

2006.13.b

Medium

ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum

Dimensions

Each leaf: 18.1 x 12.9 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.)

Classification

Manuscript

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection