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{{File imported from Commons|url=}} == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Artwork |Description= {{en|Detail of a scene in the bowl of the letter 'P' with a woman with a set-square and dividers; using a compass to measure distances on a diagram. In her left hand she holds a square, an implement for testing or drawing right angles. She is watched by a group of students. In the Middle Ages, it is unusual to see women represented as teachers, in particular when the students appear to be monks. She is most likely the personification of Geometry, based on Martianus Capella's famous book ''De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii,'' [5th c.] a standard source for allegorical imagery of the seven liberal arts. Illustration at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath.}} {{fr text|Détail d'une enluminure du XIVe siècle, contrepoinçon d'une lettre capitale P, au début des Éléments d'Euclide, dans une traduction attribuée à Adélar de Bath. Une femme porte une équerre d'une main et utilise un compas de l'autre pour mesurer des distances sur un diagramme. Un groupe de moines, apparemment ses étudiants, la regardent. Au Moyen Âge, la représentation d'une femme dans un rôle d'enseignant est inhabituelle. La femme représentée ici serait donc plutôt une personnification de la géométrie.}} |institution={{institution:British Library}} |accession number=BL Burney 275, f. 293 r. |Source={{British Library image|ms-shelfmark=Burney 275|url=|shelfmark=}}<!-- via http://prodigi.bl.uk/illcat/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=2756 - no longer live --> |Date={{other date|between|1309|1316}} |artist={{creator:Meliacin Master|attributed to}} |Permission={{PD-Art-100}} |other_versions= }} {{Assessments|POTY=5|POTYyear=2006|featured=1}} {{Picture of the day|year=2006|month=06|day=20}} [[Category:History of geometry]] [[Category:Mathematics lectures in art]] [[Category:Women of the Middle Ages]] [[Category:Medieval science]] [[Category:Medieval education]] [[Category:P as an initial in illuminated manuscripts]] [[Category:Illuminated manuscripts in the British Library]] [[Category:14th-century illuminated manuscripts]] [[Category:Gender-role reversals or women in power]] [[Category:Geometrical tools]] [[Category:Compasses (drafting) in art]] [[Category:Personifications of Mathematics|Geometry]] [[Category:De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii]] [[Category:British Library Burney Manuscripts]] [[Category:Historiated initials from illuminated manuscripts]] [[Category:Female educators]] [[Category:Schoolmasters in miniatures]] [[Category:Meliacin Master]]

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