Cy apres sensuit hystoire de panphile fille de platee · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de panphile fille de platee
Subject: Cotton; Weaving; Important Women; Famous Women; Pamphile
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a Greek woman named Pamphile. She is said to have been the first person to pick cotton from plants, which is why she is illustrated picking cotton in the image. There is a spindle and distaff depicted behind her as she is also renowned for having combed and spun the cotton into thread.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18455
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18455_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Cotton; Weaving; Important Women; Famous Women; Pamphile