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

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de nicaule royne des ethiopiens
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Solomon; Wisdom; Nicaula
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ethiopia; Egypt; 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: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19939
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_19939_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Solomon; Wisdom; Nicaula