Cy sensuit histoire de paphile fille de platee · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de paphile fille de platee
Subject: Cotton; Wool; Spindle; Distaff; Important Women; Famous Women; Pamphile
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a Greek woman named Pamphile in both the background and the foreground of the image. She is said to have been the first person to pick cotton from plants, which is why she is illustrated picking cotton in the background of the image. The foreground of the image depicts Pamphile sitting in front of a spindle and distaff as she is also renowned for having combed and spun the cotton into thread and weaved it.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19951
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19951_OBJ.jpg