Friday Faves: Peter Bovenmyer presents a majestic early Florentine humanistic manuscript
June 12, 2020This majestic early Florentine humanistic manuscript offers very fine examples of minuscule script and white vine-stem decoration associated in the 1430s with the important scriptorium of S. Maria degli Angeli, the artistic home of Lorenzo Monaco, Fra Angelico, and many other celebrated Italian painter-illuminators. At one time possibly in the library of Bernardo Bembo, Venetian nobleman, important humanist, and envoy to the court of Lorenzo de’ Medici, it includes marginal notes and maniculae thought to be by his own hand.