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Title
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Cy apres sensuit histoire de medee tres expte enchanterelle et royne des colchiens
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Description
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This illumination depicts Medea sitting in the centre of the image wearing a blue dress and holding a scroll of parchment. She was renowned for her skills in magic and potion making. She had fallen in love with the Trojan hero Jason, and she betrayed her family to help him achieve his endeavors. She took her father’s treasure and fled with Jason, and to delay her father from going after them, she dismembered her young brother and scattered his remains for her father to find. Medea’s brother is about to be dismembered by a solder on the right side of the image. The sword of the soldier is illustrated going outside of the frame of the illumination. Jason is illustrated sitting on a horse on the left side of the image.
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Image Creator
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Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:19834
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Source Name
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Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
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Image
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mta_19834_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Important Women
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Famous Women
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Important Queens
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Magic
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Jason
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Medea