Cy apres sensuit de paulinie femme rommanie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de paulinie femme rommanie
Subject: Anubis; Gods; Naivety; Important Women; Famous Women; Chastity; Mundus; Paulina
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a Roman woman named Paulina speaking with a priest on the left side of the image. Paulina was a chaste and devout woman and is renowned for her naivety by being tricked into losing her virtue. A man named Mundus (who is depicted hiding above the bed on the right side of the image) had fallen in love with Paulina and devised a plan to trick her into having relations with him. He bribed a priest to tell Paulina that if she stayed the night at the temple, the Egyptian God Anubis would come to her in her sleep. She believed this deception, and when she slept at the temple, Mundus disguised himself as Anubis and tricked Paulina into having intercourse with him. When Paulina realized she was deceived, her husband went to the emperor and had Mundus exiled. The priest of the temple was tortured as his punishment.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18523
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
Image: mta_18523_OBJ.jpg

Media: mta_18523_OBJ.jpg