47989
The Gabriel Millet Collection
Millet No.: 1.M398.4
Italy, Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana
3c. - 5c.
Battle Scene
Ulysses
Illustration for Pict. XXI.
Likely the earliest Iliad codex in existence, although fragmentary and containing 58 miniatures, lacking illustrations to Books XVIII, XIX, and XX.
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