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An early manuscript of the Aesop fables of Avianus and related manuscripts.
LIBRA 96 G573.2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldschmidt, Adolph, 1863-1944.
- Series:
- Studies in manuscript illumination ; no. 1.
- Studies in manuscript illumination ; no. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesop--Illustrations.
- Aesop.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts--France.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts.
- France.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages : 32 plates on 16 l. ; 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1947.
- Notes:
- Study of book illumination in southern France, based on a Carolingian manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale (ms. lat nouv. acq. 1132) showing the deveopment of illustrations for Aesop's fables in Gothic manuscripts from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries.
- OCLC:
- 1483265
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