2-649-905 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sophonisbe - Reine De Numidie', 1403, (1939). Sophonisbe, born in Carthage in 235 BC died at Cirta in 203 BC was a queen of Numidia , known in Berber under the name of Sofines. The illustration is part of the manuscript De Claris mulieribus, traduction anonyme en francais (Livre des femmes nobles et renommees) by Giovanni Boccaccio, housed in the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. From Verve - Nos. 5-6, July-October 1939. [Verve, France, 1939]