Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Fables
Southern Italy, 10th or 11th century
MS M.397. Fol. 024r

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Aesop: Scene, asleep under Tree -- Aesop, eyes closed, with right hand to head, reclines on ground, between two fig trees, the right with axe suspended from branch.
Miniature for Life of Aesop; Aesop goes to sleep under a fig tree and finds the prayer of the Priestess had been granted; his speech is restored.