A partire dai manoscritti di Lanfranco de Pancis da Cremona. Un itinerario artistico

The name of Lanfranco de Pancis da Cremona constitutes the link between two illuminated manuscripts, Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 5 sin. 2 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. bibl. lat. 56, dated respectively 1258 and 1265. However, the decorations of the two codices can’t be attributed to the same artist. In 1993 Giovanni Valagussa has attempted to outline a corpus of ten manuscripts decorated by the same Cremonese hand only responsible for the Oxford codex. The analysis of a Bible included in the corpus, Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Conv. Soppr. 593, that is considered by Valagussa the first work by the Cremonese illuminator, point out, however, its stylistic difference compared to the Oxford Bible and a mature and sophisticated way to create forms and set up scenes. Another Bible from the corpus (Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 1101) shows some specific Venetian elements, also shared by the Oxford codex.