Accession number
MS M.397
Object title
Fables (MS M.397).
Created
Southern Italy 10th or 11th century.
Binding
Old Italian parchment in morocco case.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1908.
Description
112 leaves (1 column, varying number of lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 215 x 166 mm
Provenance
Formerly in the Basilian Monastery at Grottoferrata, near Rome (numbered A.33); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Brauer in Paris in 1908; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in southern Italy in the tenth or eleventh century.
Texts: fragment of the Kalīlah wa-Dimnah (Greek version of the Stephanites and Ichnelates) (fol. 1r-7v); Physiologus (fol. 8-21v); Vita Aesopi (fol. 22-67v); Aesop's fables (fol. 67v-108r); Babrius's Fabulae Aesopeae (fol. 108r-112v); seven Asteia of Hierocles the Grammarian (fol. 112v).
Decoration: 20 unframed colored-drawings and 7 uncolored-drawings.
Texts: fragment of the Kalīlah wa-Dimnah (Greek version of the Stephanites and Ichnelates) (fol. 1r-7v); Physiologus (fol. 8-21v); Vita Aesopi (fol. 22-67v); Aesop's fables (fol. 67v-108r); Babrius's Fabulae Aesopeae (fol. 108r-112v); seven Asteia of Hierocles the Grammarian (fol. 112v).
Decoration: 20 unframed colored-drawings and 7 uncolored-drawings.
Script
Greek minuscule
Language
Greek
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