Cy sensuit histoire de la tres ancienne et tres noble minerve · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de la tres ancienne et tres noble minerve
Subject: Goddesses; Roman Mythology; Weaving; Wisdom; Important Women; Famous Women; Minerva
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Attica
Description: This illumination depicts the goddess Minerva standing on the left side of the image. The people in front of Minerva represents the inventions and discoveries Minerva introduced to the world. There is one man wearing a blue tunic and a red head garb playing a flute, and another man beside him creating iron weapons, which are both creations of Minerva. There is a person sitting on the ground who is spinning wool with their fingers, which is something Minerva discovered and showed men how to do. There is a man sitting at a desk at the back of the image who appears to be counting objects, which would signify Minerva’s discovery of numbers,
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19815
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19815_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Goddesses; Roman Mythology; Weaving; Wisdom; Important Women; Famous Women; Minerva