Cy sensuit histoire de la feme Adelphe probe de fait et de nom · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de la feme Adelphe probe de fait et de nom
Subject: Proba; Important Women; Famous Women; Literature; Poetry
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy; Othrys
Description: This illumination depicts Proba sitting in a chair as she looks at a book resting on a lectern. The books illustrated in the image are to represent her intellectual life and her teaching history to the world. Proba is renowned for her intellect and extensive knowledge of literature including works from Virgil. Proba had taken lines from the Aeneid, Bucolics, and the Georgics and transformed them into a cento focusing on the Old and New Testaments. Proba was said to have known the Scriptures by memory, which was something not even many men were able to do.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25578
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_25578_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Proba; Important Women; Famous Women; Literature; Poetry