La sibylle Erythrée écrivant à son pupitre · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La sibylle Erythrée écrivant à son pupitre
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Erythrae
Description: Erythraea or Eriphila the Sibyl is seen seated at her desk. The Sibyls were known for their telling of the future with great accuracy, and Erythraea was particularly skilled. Her ability to write about the future was so accurate that her foretelling was treated as Gospel. Some of her famous foretelling's included the destruction of Troy, as well as the Roman empire.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19828
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19828_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Foresight; Foretelling; Gospel; Future; Erythraea; Sibyl