Some
of the Spanish-looking MSS. executed for Alphonse V. of Aragon were
actually produced in Naples.
[Illustration:
MISSALE
C. 1530
_Brit. Mus. Ada. MS. 15813, fol. 27_]
[Illustration:
KATHOLISCHES GEBETHBUCH
1584
_Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 17525, fol. 155_]
It is not safe to assert that because a work is ordered for a monastery
or a prince that the copyists or illuminators always went to the
monastery or palace to do the work, though frequently they did so. Most
of the MSS. executed for Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, were
produced in Florence. There was more than one atelier of illuminators in
Florence. There were others in Bologna, others in Rome, and quite a
large establishment in Naples. Others resided in Milan, Ferrara, and
Verona. Those at Ferrara lived chiefly at the Ducal Palace. Those at
Verona were the guests of the great Ghibelline leader, Can della Scala,
and his immediate successors. Those at Naples, in the time of Alphonso
the Magnanimous, and especially of his son, Ferdinand I., were
maintained solely for the augmentation and embellishment of the Royal
Library.[45] A list of seventeen copyists, including the famous names of
Antonio Sinibaldo, Giovanni, Rinaldo, Mennio, and Hippolito Lunensis,
and of fourteen or fifteen illuminators, all of distinguished ability,
is given by Signer Riccio from the archives of the city.
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