MINIATURIST, Italian
(active around 1390 in Lombardy)

Book of Hours

c. 1390
Manuscript (Lat. 842)
Biblioteca Estense, Modena

This small codex contains the offices for the Virgin. It is decorated by borders with foliate motifs, Historiated initials with scenes from the New Testament and 28 full-page miniatures showing episodes from the lives of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints. The author of the decoration is unknown, but was certainly a Lombard influenced by Giovannino de' Grassi. On folio 240 the figure of Saint Dorothy is represented.