Work of Art Record 48508

Record No

48508

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.N438.5

Location

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

Date

10c. - 11c.

Subject Headings

Fable of Bidpai, King and Courtiers

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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