Cy apres sensuit histoire de la tres ancienne libie, mere de bulsirides · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de la tres ancienne libie, mere de bulsirides
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: North Africa; Egypt; Libya
Description: This illuminated image depicts Libya, the daughter of King Epaphus of Egypt, on the left side of the image. She is illustrated standing 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: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19819
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_19819_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Busiris; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Libya