2-649-906 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Zenobie - Reine De Palmyre', 1403, (1939). Septimia Zenobia was a third-century queen of the Syria-based Palmyrene Empire. 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]