Cy apres sensuit de la noble manthone fille de tyresie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de la noble manthone fille de tyresie
Subject: Tiresias; Seers; Prophecies; Greek Mythology; Important Women; Famous Women; Manto
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts Manto, the daughter of the famous seer Tiresias. She is depicted sitting down beside a fire as she looks through a pile of animal entrails. Boccaccio explains that Manto became an incredible seer just like her father. She used the movement and colour of the fire’s flames to tell the future, which is why there is a fire in the engraving. She also used the entrails of animals such as sheep and oxen for signs of the future. Boccaccio explains that Manto was also involved in the dark arts by summoning spirits and gods from the underworld.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18442
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_18442_OBJ.jpg