Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Fables and other poems
France, ca. 1515
MS M.422 fol. 7v

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Fable: Stag and Reflection -- Stag, facing right, on shore before landscape and city in background. Miniature for Aesop’s Fable of "The Stag and his Reflection." Miniature framed by circular 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.