Aesopus moralisatus

Printed book: 1495; Parchment binding: ca. 1200

15.7 cm 20.3 cm

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This edition of Aesop’s Fables was created soon after the invention of the printing press around 1455 and would have been very expensive. The delicate paper pages were sold without a binding. In this example, a 12th-century parchment page from a large Talmud, a legal text that...

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Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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9
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