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Letter to Lodovico Sforza

correspondent Ippolito I d' Este (Ferrara, 1479 - 1520, Ferrara)

recipient Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (Vigevano, 1452 - 1508, Loches, France)

Date18 December 1497

MediumInk on paper

Dimensions24.1 x 17.8 cm (9 1/2 x 7 in.)

ClassificationsManuscripts

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number2.b.3.3.7

eMuseum ID727067

EmbARK ObjectID12558

Previous Number38F27e42-s

TMS Source ID1638

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web 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)