Cy apres sensuit de la tres ancienne ysis deesse et royne des egyptiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de la tres ancienne ysis deesse et royne des egyptiens
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; The Argives; Ancient Egypt
Description: This illumination depicts the goddess Isis (previously known as Io) on a ship as she arrives in Egypt. There is another person on the ship, which Boccaccio explains is most likely a friend of Isis’. Once Isis arrives in Egypt, she becomes a venerated goddess and queen. There are people depicted on the shore as they welcome Isis to Egypt.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18423
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_18423_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Io; Important Women; Famous Women; Gods; Goddesses; Important Queens; Isis