Letter to the Duke of Milan
correspondent
Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
(Gubbio, 1422 - 1482, Ferrara)
recipient
Gian Galeazzo Sforza
(active San Severino)
Date2 July 1476
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions17.5 x 21 cm (6 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number2.b.3.3.3
eMuseum ID726878
EmbARK ObjectID12554
Previous Number34F27e42-s
TMS Source ID1634
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotes
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 251.
Seymour De Ricci with the assistance of W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York,1935-40), I, p. 935, no. 35.
ProvenanceNotes
Collection of Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton in 1908. (for a bound set of 8 letters)
Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt
late 19th century