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Both Ferrante I, king of Naples 1458-94, and his sons, Alfonso of Calabria (1448-1495) and Cardinal Giovanni of Aragon (1456-1485) were notable book collectors. They ordered books in Florence and they employed their own scribes and illuminators in Naples. This manuscript of Ovid's Metamorphoses was prepared for Cardinal Giovanni of Aragon. It was written by the Florentine scribe Antonio Sinibaldi, and may well have been copied from the edition of the text printed in Venice in 1474, of which the Cardinal already owned a copy.
The picture shows folio 1r of the manuscript.
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