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Literature / Kalīla wa-Dimna (adaptation of the Panchatantra)

ERANOS ARCHIVE

8-9. Pairs of Opposites

Further details

Eranos Archive 8/4 Man's Fate or the Man Taking Refuge in a Well Inhabited by a Dragon

Artist or creator

Egyptian uncertain origin
Syrian uncertain origin

Date

circa 1300-1310

Location

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Book, text or document (source of image)

Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (died 759 AD). Kalīla wa-Dimna, Egypt or Syria, ca. 1300-1310. BSB Cod. Arab. 616, fol. 40r.

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Contact

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