Iconography
GODS AND MYTHS
Muses / With other figures / Apollo / Apollo surrounded by the Muses (on Parnasssus or Helicon) / Adaptations
LITERATURE
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1644-1659: Plague in Athens in Cecrop's time (caused by the heat at Phaeton's Fall)
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Further details
Front left: Saturn eating his children; behind: the Egyptians in the Red Sea; centre: a man being served a severed head (probably Tereus, Saxl suggested Erisychthon); right: Plague in Athens at the time of Cecrops caused by the heat of Phaeton's fall
Artist or creator
Date
1438 - 1450
Location
London, British Library, Sloane MS 2452
Associated persons
Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))
Book, text or document (source of image)
Lydgate, John. Fall of Princes. Folio: 3v.
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis Astrologischer und Mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, 3, 1, London 1953, p. 247f.
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Acknowledgements
Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’
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