Cy apres sensuit de erithree ou eriphille une des sibilles · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de erithree ou eriphille une des sibilles
Subject: Eriphila; Sibyls; Prophecies; Important Women; Famous Women; Erythraea
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Mesopotamia; Babylon
Description: This illuminated image depicts a woman named Erythraea (also known as Eriphila) sitting down while writing a book. Erythraea was a famous sibyl and was known for predicting many major events in history. Boccaccio explains in his story of Erythraea that she predicted the fall of Troy, as well as the life and death of Jesus Christ.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18433
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_18433_OBJ.jpg