The Medici Aesop Spencer MS 50 from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library

Book (31 Oct 1989)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A volume which bridges the centuries between the Renaissance and the 1980s with an illustrated and decorated version of Aesop's fables. Taken from a 15th-century Florentine manuscript traced to the library of Piero de' Medici, the book includes many favourite fables as well as more unusual tales.

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