"Fable of the Lion and the Hare", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna
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The literary work known as Kalila wa Dimna comprises a series of moralizing tales told through a cast of personified animals, including two jackals, Kalila and Dimna. Sanskrit versions of these tales are known from as early as the fourth century; a popular Persian translation was made in the twelfth century. This folio, from an early fourteenth-century manuscript copied in Shiraz, depicts a scene from the story of the Lion and the Hare, who are shown here looking at their own reflections in a well.
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