Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Fables and other poems
France, ca. 1515
MS M.422 fol. 1v

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Fable: Dog and Master -- Emerging from door of house, man, wearing hat, raises club with right hand and lowers left hand toward dog, eyes closed, crouching near step. Scene in landscape with tree and city in background. Miniature for Aesop’s Fable of "The Old Dog and his Master." 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.