La prophétesse Carmenta enseignant les lettres · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La prophétesse Carmenta enseignant les lettres
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy
Description: Upon arriving to the Capitoline Hill with her son, Carmenta found that the inhabitants were nearly illiterate. She decided to create letters for these people, allowing them to learn literacy and later, other academic fields. Rather than just using Greek letters, these new letters distinguished them from other nations. In the image, Carmenta is seated on a throne teaching the letters to the inhabitants.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19872
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19872_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Literacy; Alphabet; Philology; Latin; Letters