Cy sensuit histoire de almatee ou deyphile sibille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de almatee ou deyphile sibille
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Cumae; Ancient Rome
Description: This illuminated image depicts the sibyl, Amalthea (also called Deiphobe), sitting down while looking at a book which is resting on a lectern. There are two other books behind her open book. Amalthea is famous for having had nine books to give to the Tarquinius Priscus, however, when he denied her payment, she began burning three books at a time until he gave her the money. There were three books left when he paid her. These three books contained all the future events that would happen to the Romans.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: StillImage; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19855
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_19855_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Amalthea; Deiphobe; Sibyls; Tarquinius Priscus; Important Women