Cy sensuit histoire de la noble manthone fille de thiresie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de la noble manthone fille de thiresie
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Thebes
Description: Manto, the daughter of the famous seer Tiresias, is depicted sitting in the centre of the image. She is depicted poking a stick into a fire as she looks through a pile of animal entrails. She used the movement and colour of the fire’s flames to tell the future, which is why there is a fire in the image. She also used the entrails of animals such as sheep and oxen for signs of the future.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19863
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_19863_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Seers; Greek Mythology; Tiresias; Manto