The "Kalila wa Dimna" animal tales, which became known in the West as "The Fables of La Fontaine", can be traced to 4th century India. The tales teach diplomacy and statecraft through the dialogue of animal characters, including two Machievellian jackals. In the 14th century Mongol court of Persia, these tales inspired one of the most remarkable works of Persian art, a narrative cycle of paintings now in the collection of the Istanbul University Library. This volume contains a new translation of the tales and a study of 50 ...
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The "Kalila wa Dimna" animal tales, which became known in the West as "The Fables of La Fontaine", can be traced to 4th century India. The tales teach diplomacy and statecraft through the dialogue of animal characters, including two Machievellian jackals. In the 14th century Mongol court of Persia, these tales inspired one of the most remarkable works of Persian art, a narrative cycle of paintings now in the collection of the Istanbul University Library. This volume contains a new translation of the tales and a study of 50 paintings from the original manuscript. It explores the ways in which the artists enriched and expanded the content of the fables to create a wicked and allegorical portrait of the Mongol court.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 176pp, quarto, hc w/jacket, clean boards with sharp corners, tight binding, clean throughout, clean and glossy jacket with worn edges.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Illustrated in color and in black and white. xiii, 176 pages. 4to, blue cloth-backed boards, d.w. (spine sunned). New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. First edition, first print, full line. No dust jacket. Book is clean save one pon on front paste down that has been marked through in pen. No other marks, no tears, full color and b/w illus., Corners square, gilt at spine bright, slight bump to spine tail.