An early manuscript of the Aesop fables of Avianus and related manuscripts.
Contributors: Aesop.; Avianus.; Bibliothe  que nationale (France).
Series: Studies in manuscript illumination -- no.1.; Studies in manuscript illumination -- no. 1.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1947
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Aesop -- Illustrations.; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- France.; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens.
Notes: Study of book illumination in southern France, based on a Carolingian manuscript in the Bibliothe  que nationale (ms. lat nouv. acq. 1132) showing the deveopment of illustrations for Aesop's fables in Gothic manuscripts from the sixth to the fifteenth centuries.