Pamphile fille de platée · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pamphile fille de platée
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a Greek woman named Pamphile. She is illustrated holding a distaff in her left arm and spinning with her right hand. This is depicted as she is said to be the first person to have picked cotton from plants. After picking the cotton she had cleaned and combed it and began to spin the cotton into thread, as illustrated in the image.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17966
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17966_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Distaff; Spindle; Cotton; Weaving; Pamphile; Important Women