Hyppo se jette dans la mer · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hyppo se jette dans la mer
Subject: Chastity; Purity; Sailors; Erythraeans; Suicide
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Erythraean shore
Description: This image depicts the one known honorable deed of Hippo. She was very beautiful, and was one day captured by enemy sailors. She deeply valued the purity of chastity, and knowing that the only way to preserve it was death, she threw herself into the sea. Her captors eventually revealed her identity, and a tomb built on the shore where her body was found.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20070
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20070_OBJ.png