Cy apres sensuit hystoire de almathee ou deyphylle sibille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de almathee ou deyphylle sibille
Subject: Deiphobe; Sibyls; Important Women; Famous Women; Tarquinius Priscus; Amalthea
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illuminated image depicts the sibyl, Amalthea (also called Deiphobe), sitting down while looking at a book resting on a lectern as she writes on parchment. Amalthea is famous for having had nine books to give to the Tarquinius Priscus, however, when he denied her payment, she began burning three books at a time until he gave her the money. There were three books left when he paid her. These three books contained all the future events that will happen to the Romans. This is most likely what she is writing in this image.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18438
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_18438_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Deiphobe; Sibyls; Important Women; Famous Women; Tarquinius Priscus; Amalthea