Cy apres sensuit histoire de erithree ou eriphille une des sibiles · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de erithree ou eriphille une des sibiles
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Mesopotamia; Babylon
Description: This illuminated image depicts a woman named Erythraea (also known as Eriphila) sitting down while writing a book. Erythraea was a famous sibyl and was known for predicting many major events in history. Boccaccio explains in his story of Erythraea that she predicted the fall of Troy, as well as the life and death of Jesus Christ.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19837
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_19837_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Eriphila; Important Women; Famous Women; Sibyls; Seers; Erythraea