Work of Art Record 48501

Record No

48501

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.N438.1

Location

United States, New York, New York, The Morgan Library & Museum

Date

10c. - 11c.

Subject Headings

Aesop, Asleep Under Tree

Notes

Fragment of Kalīlah wa-Dimnah (Greek version of the Stephanites and Ichnelates), Physiologus, Vita Aesopi, Aesop’s fables, Babrius’s Fabulae Aesopeae, and seven Asteia of Hierocles the Grammarian. Formerly in the Monastery at Grottoferrata near Rome.

Citations

Avery, M., "Miniatures of the Fables of Bidpai and of the Life of Aesop," Art Bulletin, XXIII (1941), passim; figs.

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