id: 164612 accession number: 2006.13 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.13 updated: 2023-03-20 10:12:17.095000 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto) and Ape Fishing (verso) , c. 1500–1510. France, Paris or Rouen, 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; each leaf: 18.1 x 12.9 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2006.13 title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Hunting Wild Boars (recto) and Ape Fishing (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500–1510 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1515 current location: 115 Manuscripts & Textiles creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: France, Paris or Rouen, 16th century technique: ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Each leaf: 18.1 x 12.9 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Letania Kyrie eleyson. Christe eleison. Christe audi nos. Christe audi nos. Pater de caelis Deus, miserere nobis. Spiritus sancta Deus, miserere nobis. Sancta Trinitas unus Deus, miserere nobis. Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis. Sancta Dei genitrix, ON. Sancta virgo virginum. ON. Sancte Michael, ON. Sancte Gabriel ON. Sancte Raphael ON. Oes sancti angeli et archangeli… translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation) opening date: 2022-08-26T04:00:00 The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours (Gallery 115 rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE [Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1984, lot 127] date: 3 July 1984 footnotes: citations: [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn] date: 1984- footnotes: citations: [Graton and Graton, Evanston, Ill.] date: footnotes: citations: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, Fl, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2006 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 2006- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The ape and the wild boar symbolized vice in general and lust in particular during the Middle Ages. digital description: wall description: The litany of the saints is among the most ancient and emotional Christian liturgical texts, dating in the West to at least the AD 400s. In a book of hours, the litanies is a list of saints’ names expressed in hierarchical order and individual rank. These names were recited rhythmically as invocations, followed each time by Ora pro nobis (Pray for us). In this way, saints were called upon by sinners seeking forgiveness and salvation.

The bas-de-page (lower margin), features an ape hunting wild boars: both animals were symbolic of vice and lust. Perhaps deriving from a fable, the scene could be amusing or diversionary, but it was likely instructive for the medieval owner of the book. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Leroquais, V. Les livres d'heures manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale. Paris: [Maçon, Protat frères, impr.], 1927. page number: pl. CII url: Avril, François, and Nicole Reynaud. Les manuscrits à peintures en France: 1440-1520. Paris: Flammarion, 1993. page number: p. 279-80, Cat. 153, fig. 153 url: Wieck, Roger S. Painted Prayers: The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art. 1997. page number: pp. 91-93 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 63, cat. no. 61 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n75 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.13/2006.13_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.13/2006.13_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.13/2006.13_full.tif