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Artist
Attributed to Meliacin Master  (–1312)  wikidata:Q26809207
 
Description French manuscript illuminator
Date of birth/death presumably  Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 13th century
date QS:P,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
-1312
Work location
Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q26809207,P5102,Q230768
Description
English: Detail of a scene in the bowl of the letter 'P' with a woman with a set-square and dividers; using a compass to measure distances on a diagram. In her left hand she holds a square, an implement for testing or drawing right angles. She is watched by a group of students. In the Middle Ages, it is unusual to see women represented as teachers, in particular when the students appear to be monks. She is most likely the personification of Geometry, based on Martianus Capella's famous book De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, [5th c.] a standard source for allegorical imagery of the seven liberal arts. Illustration at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath.
Français : Détail d'une enluminure du XIVe siècle, contrepoinçon d'une lettre capitale P, au début des Éléments d'Euclide, dans une traduction attribuée à Adélar de Bath. Une femme porte une équerre d'une main et utilise un compas de l'autre pour mesurer des distances sur un diagramme. Un groupe de moines, apparemment ses étudiants, la regardent. Au Moyen Âge, la représentation d'une femme dans un rôle d'enseignant est inhabituelle. La femme représentée ici serait donc plutôt une personnification de la géométrie.
Date between 1309 and 1316
date QS:P571,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1309-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1316-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
BL Burney 275, f. 293 r.
Source/Photographer
This file has been provided by the British Library from its digital collections.
Catalogue entry: Burney 275


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Likely represents Sophia/logos (red robe with purple high status) Illumination of P Pythagoria Pi and phi - geometrical shapes set within circle bounded in green representing material world

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current06:07, 22 May 2022Thumbnail for version as of 06:07, 22 May 20221,039 × 1,148 (295 KB)PhreneticcReduced "weight" of the file.
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15:14, 19 December 2005Thumbnail for version as of 15:14, 19 December 2005269 × 312 (32 KB)Leinad-Z~commonswikiWoman using a compass to measure distances on a diagram. In her hand she hold a square, an implement for testing or drawing right angles. She is watched by a group of students. In the Middle Ages, it is unusual to see women represented as teachers, in pa

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