Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto)

Description

Following the psalms is the litany of saints, identified by the blue text reading Letania. This repetitive list proceeds through a hierarchy beginning with God the Father and continuing through many saints. From each individual, the reader could ask for forgiveness. This list was customizable, allowing the reader to include saints important to them or their family. Surrounding the text is a scene of an ape hunting wild boars, symbols of vice and lust, that could perhaps be from a fable or merely 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 Hunting Wild Boars (recto)

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c. 1500–1510

Accession Number

2006.13.a

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