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Title
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Cy sensuit histoire de pauline rommaine
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Description
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This illumination depicts a Roman woman named Paulina speaking with a priest on the right side of the image. Paulina was a chaste and devout woman and is renowned for her naivety by being tricked into losing her virtue. A man named Mundus (who is depicted on the left side of the image) had fallen in love with Paulina and devised a plan to trick her into having relations with him. He bribed a priest to tell Paulina that if she stayed the night at the temple, the Egyptian God, Anubis, would come to her in her sleep. She believed this deception, and when she slept at the temple, Mundus disguised himself as Anubis and tricked Paulina into having intercourse with him. When Paulina realized she was deceived, her husband went to the emperor and had Mundus exiled. The priest of the temple was tortured as his punishment.
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Image Creator
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Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
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Identifier
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mta:20155
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Source Name
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Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
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Image
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mta_20155_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Anubis
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Mundus
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Gods
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Temples
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Deception
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Naivety
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Important Women
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Famous Women
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Paulina