La noble manthone fille de thireste · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La noble manthone fille de thireste
Subject: Prophetess; Seers; Important Women; Famous Women; Manto; Tiresias
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Thebes; Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a seer named Manto, who is the daughter of the famous seer Tiresias. Manto is renowned for being able to tell the future by reading the flames and movement of a fire. She was also famous for being able to read the entrails of animals in order to see the future. This image depicts Manto practicing her magic.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17148
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17148_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Prophetess; Seers; Important Women; Famous Women; Manto; Tiresias