Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Fables
Southern Italy, 10th or 11th century
MS M.397. Fol. 002v

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Bidpai, Fables: purchasing Birds -- Man with right hand holds short staff and with left hand exends two doves toward raised right hand of another man, also holding short staff with left hand.
Miniature for Fables of Bidpai (Kalilah and Dimnah) of The Purchase of Two Birds.