(Q23115)

The style of penwork seen in this initial, as well as the use of red, blue, and light brown inks, is similar to the penwork initials of Guinifortus de Vicomercato, an illuminator active in central Italy in the mid-fifteenth century. Guinifortus signed his name in a pattern book of penwork initials now in the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana (MS Ricketts 240). Although their precise...