Studies in the text history of the life and fables of Aesop - Perry, B. E. (Ben Edwin), 1892-1968 (American philological association, 1936)
"I propose to define ... the broad outlines of the Aesopic tradition in so far as it relates to the commonly received texts of the Life and Fables, and to the hitherto unknown but very important representatives thereof which are contained in manuscript 396 of the Pierpont Morgan Library", p. vii