Fables and Other Poems

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Background Essay
Title: Fables and Other Poems
Author(s) / Contributor(s): Sala, Pierre, approximately 1457-1529
Bauzonnet-Trautz, binder, 19th century
Date Issued: 1515
Region: France--Southern France
Type of Resource: Manuscript book
Language: Middle French, 1400-1600
Genre: Narrative
Physical Description: 24 leaves, bound: vellum, 18 x 14 cm
Script: Gothic
Decoration: 18 full-page miniatures; 18 wreaths enclosing text
Topic: Art and Culture
Subject: Didactic literature
Fables
Animals, mythical
Note(s): MS made for Louise of Savoy, duchess of Angoulême (1476-1531); MS bound in 1843 by Bauzonnet-Trautz, dark-green morocco with gilt-tooled band inside covers
Repository: The Morgan Library & Museum
Call Number: MS M.422
Provenance: Armand, 16th century, former owner
Huzard, J.-B (Jean-Baptiste), 1755-1838, former owner
Pichon, Jérôme-Frédéric, baron, 1812-1896, former owner
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner
Purchased by Morgan from Galeria Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1910
Digital Image Rights Holder: The Morgan Library & Museum
Reading Difficulty: Introductory
Time Period: 1500-1549