MINIATURIST, Italian
(active around 1460 in Lombardy)

Baldo Martorelli: Grammar

c. 1460
Manuscript (Ms. 786)
Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan

This small manuscript contains a grammatical text which was compiled for Ippolita, the daughter of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan and Bianca Maria Visconti. The decoration consists of initials and a frontispiece. A leaf with a portrait of Duke Francesco, which was executed at the same period, was added to the manuscript at a later date.