Cy apres sensuit hystoire de la tres ancienne libie mere de busiridis et royne de libie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de la tres ancienne libie mere de busiridis et royne de libie
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Libya; North Africa; Egypt
Description: This illuminated image depicts Libya, the daughter of King Epaphus of Egypt. She is illustrated sitting down as she looks at the citizens who are kneeling in front of her. Boccaccio explains that Libya bore a child with her husband, Neptune, who grew up to be a tyrant of Upper Egypt. Their child’s name was Busiris. Libya was so renown during her time that the region in Africa which she ruled was named after her.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18425
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_18425_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Busiris; King Epaphus; Important Women; Famous Women; Libya