Kalîla wa Dimna, translated by Anton von Pforr

Localisation :
Année de création : Circa 1480
Artiste :Anton von Pforr

Description

Das Buch der Beispiele der alten Weisen, Urach (Swabia), 15^th century (after 1476)
Manuscript enriched with a cycle of 132 miniatures on vellum
Manuscript 680

Origin: Eberhard V the Bearded, Count of Württemberg, London, 1860

This compilation, also called the Fables of Bidpaï, was composed in India before 570 and spread in the West from the 13^th century in a Latin version.

It was intended for the moral education of princes.

At the end of the 15^th century, a painter who was perhaps of Flemish origin renewed its illustration at the request of the Count of Württemberg, a bibliophile who commissioned the German translation.

See its pages here: https://bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/iiif/391/canvas/canvas-215134/view