Cy apres sensuit de la feme delphe probe de fait et de nom · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de la feme delphe probe de fait et de nom
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Othrys; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Proba sitting in a chair as she looks at a book resting on a lectern. The books illustrated in the image are to represent her intellectual life and her teaching history to the world. Proba is renowned for her intellect and intensive knowledge of literature, including works from Virgil. Proba had taken lines from the Aeneid, Bucolics, and the Georgics and transformed them into a cento focusing on the Old and New Testaments. Proba was said to have known the Scriptures by memory, which was something not even many men were able to do.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18571
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18571_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Adelphus; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Literature; Poetry; Cento; Virgil; Homer; New Testament; Old Testament; Proba