# Epistle of Othea by Christine de Pisan [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Manuscript \(M. 775\) ## Commentary Epistle of Othea by Christine de Pisan c. 1450 Manuscript \(M. 775\) The Morgan Library and Museum, New York Christine de Pisan \(1364,-c. 1430\) was a prolific and versatile French poet and author whose diverse writings include numerous poems of courtly love, a biography of Charles V of France, and several works championing women. The illustration on folio 122v depicts the armouring of a knight, showing his accoutrements assembled on a table. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()