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-)
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
Credit Line
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection