Maybe he had seen Domenico Ghirlandaio's fresco in the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence?

"The Adoration of the Magi by Domenico Ghirlandaio, part of a cycle in the Tornabuoni Chapel was painted just after the arrival of the Medici giraffe and shows the animal descending a hill on the right-hand side."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_giraffe#/media/File:Cappella_tornabuoni,_06,_adorazione_dei_magi.jpg

Tristan von Neumann kirjoitti 26.7.2020 klo 18.40:
How did the illuminator (Mr. Vidal?) know how a Giraffe looks?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Capirola_lutebook.jpg



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