# Legend of Guiron le Courtois [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. fr. 5253\) ## Commentary Legend of Guiron le Courtois 1389 Manuscript \(Ms. fr. 5253\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris This illustrated copy of the knightly romance, Legend of Guiron le Courtois, was commissioned by Bernabò Visconti. Folio 2v depicts the mysterious helmeted knight, known as Fieramonte, at the court of Artù. Courtly romances, which were usually written in French, were popular at north Italian courts well into the fifteenth century. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()