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Work of Art Record 47988

Millet No.: 1.M398.3 - F. 205
Millet No.: 1.M398.3 - F. 205

Record No

47988

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.M398.3

Location

Italy, Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Date

3c. - 5c.

Subject Headings

Ajax the Great and Ulysses, before Agamemnon

Description

Scene from the Legend of Trojan War.

Notes

Illustration for Pict. XIII. Likely the earliest Iliad codex in existence, although fragmentary and containing 58 miniatures, lacking illustrations to Books XVIII, XIX, and XX.

Citations

Ceriani, A., Homeri Iliadis Pictae Fragmenta Ambrosiana (1905); passim; figs.

Weitzmann, K., Roll and Codex (1947), pp. 42 ff., et passim; figs. 32-34, 159, 160, 168, 176 (see Weitzmann for further Bibliography, n. 7)

Woodruff, H., "Physiologus of Bern," Art Bulletin, XII (1930), p. 236; figs. 21, 23 p. 236

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