Cy apres sensuit histoire de beronice royne de capadoce · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de beronice royne de capadoce
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Revenge; Mithridates; Caeneus; Berenice
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Turkey; Cappadocia
Description: Berenice, the queen of Cappadocia, is illustrated in the centre of the image sitting in a chariot. She is depicted swinging an axe towards the man to the left of her. The man running away from Berenice is Caeneus, a servant who killed Berenice’s children under the order of Mithridates (her brother). Berenice kills this servant to avenge her children’s deaths. There is a chariot driver on the right side of the image who is depicted riding the horse.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20058
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_20058_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Revenge; Mithridates; Caeneus; Berenice