Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Fables
Southern Italy, 10th or 11th century
MS M.397. Fol. 023r

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Miniature, center right:
1) Aesop: Scene, Accusers punished -- Half-figure of man, possibly Aesop, raising left hand, behind nude man, kneeling, lowering body and hands to ground, his head touched by Master, wearing short tunic, raising scourge in right hand.2) Aesop: Scene, before Priestess of Isis -- Aesop extends hands and lowers himself toward axe beside him on ground (?) before Priestess of Isis, wearing long robe, extending both hands toward the Aesop.