Although Lorenzo Monaco was primarily a painter of panels and frescoes, he was also remarkable as an illuminator. He learned the craft of manuscript illumination in the scriptorium of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence under the tutelage of Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci. During the period of Lorenzo Monaco's residence at the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, the scriptorium there was engaged in the writing and illumination of two large series of antiphonaries, and a set of graduals for their sister house of San Michele a Murano. Both volumes of the latter and the first three volumes of the former was painted by Don Silvestro, and two other volumes of the antiphonaries had been contracted to secular artists for illumination. With the arrival of Lorenzo Monaco, however, the completion of these books seems to have been entrusted exclusively to him.

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	Antiphonary (Choir Book 5) 1394 Tempera and gold on parchment Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
	Antiphonary (Choir Book 5) 1394 Tempera and gold on parchment Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 1, folio 3) 1396 Tempera and gold on parchment, 463 x 480 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 1, folio 63) 1396 Tempera and gold on parchment, 223 x 204 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 1, folio 102) 1396 Tempera and gold on parchment, 343 x 302 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 1, folio 111v) 1396 Tempera and gold on parchment, 340 x 378 mm Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 8, folio 102) 1395-98 Tempera and gold on parchment, 215 x 163 mm (initial) Staatliche Museen, Berlin
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 8, folio 134) 1395-98 Tempera and gold on parchment, 344 x 414 mm National Gallery of Art, Washington
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 7, folio 124v) 1406 Tempera and gold on parchment, 315 x 265 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	The Temptation of Christ c. 1410 Ink on parchment, 120 x 219 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Antiphonary (Cod. Cor. 3, folio 59) c. 1410 Tempera and gold on parchment, mounted on panel, 402 x 327 mm Bernard H. Breslauer, New York
	Gradual (Cod. H 74, folio 43r) c. 1410 Tempera and gold on parchment, 131 x 129 mm National Gallery of Art, Washington
	Gradual (Cod. H 74, folio 122v) c. 1410 Tempera and gold on parchment, 168 x 160 mm Museum of Art, Cleveland