Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Fables and other poems
France, ca. 1515
MS M.422 fol. 5v

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Fable: Wolf and Lamb -- Wolf lowers head to drink from trough, filled by stream from which two lambs drink, at right, two other lambs (only heads visible). Scene in hilly landscape with city in background. Miniature for Aesop’s Fable of "The Wolf and the Lamb." Miniature framed by wreath with four ribbons and medallions, each medallion decorated with pair of wings as emblem of Louise of Savoy. Text summary in French verse is on facing page, within similar frame.