Work of Art Record 48520

Record No

48520

Collection

The Gabriel Millet Collection

Inventory Number

Millet No.: 1.N438.8

Location

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

Date

10c. - 11c.

Subject Headings

Fable of Bidpai, Wolves Eating Figs

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. Image is a detail of the slide.

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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