Index of Medieval Art

Work of Art Record 47991

Millet No.: 1.M398.6 - F. 205
Millet No.: 1.M398.6 - F. 205

Record No

47991

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.M398.6

Location

Italy, Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Date

3c. - 5c.

Subject Headings

Siege of Troy

Description

Siege of Troy.

Scene from the legend of the Trojan War.

Notes

Illustration for Pict. XXXVIII; 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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