Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Fables and other poems
France, ca. 1515
MS M.422 fol. 15v

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Fable: Frog and Ox -- Ox looking down toward frog beside stream, on shore in hilly landscape with city partly visible in background. Miniature for Aesop’s Fable of "The Frog and the Ox." 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.