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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man (Prefatory Miniature to the Office of the Virgin) (recto) and Text with Illustrated Border (verso) (1 of 3 Excised Leaves)
- Date
- c. 1510
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum
- Culture
- France, Rouen
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 162146
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This leaf came from a highly customized and lavish book of hours made in Rouen, a major center for book production at the time. Intended for a female patron, the book, of which the museum owns three leaves, contained numerous illuminations. Shown here are Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, just before disobeying God by eating fruit from the forbidden tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden, considered the first sin in Christianity. This precedes the Hours of the Virgin’s traditional first scene of the Annunciation. Its inclusion emphasizes a need for redemption through recitation of the subsequent prayers. This image opens to what is the heart of every book of hours, the Hours of the Virgin, a set of prayers in which the reader asked the Virgin Mary to intercede on their behalf.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
- Provenance
- Carlton R. Richmond | October 30, 1981: [Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 30 October 1981, lot 54] | 1981-: [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn] | -2001: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2001-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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