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        "tombstone": "Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Fishing (verso), c. 1500\u20131510. 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.b",
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        "title": "Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Fishing (verso)",
        "creation_date": "c. 1500\u20131510",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1495,
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        "department": "Medieval Art",
        "collection": "MED - Manuscript Illuminations",
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        "measurements": "Each leaf: 18.1 x 12.9 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.)",
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 449397,
                    "title": "The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours",
                    "description": "<i>The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-July 30, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-08-26T04:00:00"
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        "provenance": [
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                "description": "[Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1984, lot 127]",
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                "description": "[Graton and Graton, Evanston, Ill.]",
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                "description": "Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "-2006",
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        "did_you_know": "The ape and the wild boar symbolized vice in general and lust in particular during the Middle Ages.",
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        "description": "This leaf shows the second half of Psalm 142. The page\u2019s first line reads, \u201cNon avertas faciem tuam a me,\u201d or \u201cTurn not away thy face from me.\u201d 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.",
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            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2006.13.b-leaf-from-a-book-of"
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            {
                "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 63, cat. no. 61",
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Ape Hunting Wild Boars, bas-de-page scene, probably from a fable, on a text leaf in Latin with illuminated border and line endings, from a Book of Hours (Litany of Saints)"
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:31:50.450000"
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