# Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Manuscript \(Royal 16 G V\) ## Commentary Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées c. 1440 Manuscript \(Royal 16 G V\) British Library, London This parchment codex was illuminated by the Talbot Master, an artist active in Rouen, named after two manuscripts produced for John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury. The text is an anonymous French translation of the Latin original "De claris mulieribus." The miniature on folio 56 depicts Gaia Caecilia or Tanaquil, with a loom, and women spinning. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()