Cy apres sensuit de nicaule royne des ethiopiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de nicaule royne des ethiopiens
Subject: King Solomon; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Wisdom; Nicaula
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ethiopia; North Africa; Jerusalem
Description: This illumination depicts Nicaula, the queen of Ethiopia, on the right side of the image meeting King Solomon of Jerusalem. King Solomon is illustrated wearing a red robe and a crown. Nicaula, as Boccaccio explains, was incredibly wise and wanted to hear and listen to the wisdom and intellect of Solomon. She had traveled from Ethiopia to Jerusalem to meet him. Nicaula is depicted kneeling and presenting King Solomon with a balsam tree. She has servants behind her carrying more gifts that she brought for the king.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18454
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_18454_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: King Solomon; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Wisdom; Nicaula