1378 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
1378
Shelf Marks
- Chantilly, Musée Condé, 755 (467)
- Condé (1654)
Owners before c.1550
Commissioners
/
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1450-1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 268 (12+256) leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 370 mm
- Width of text blocks : 260 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 10
- Number of miniatures : 10
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Chattering Hands
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (red morocco, arms Bourbon-Condé)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Jacques Meurgey, Les principaux manuscrits à peintures du Musée Condé à Chantilly (Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, 14), Paris 1930, no. 65 (ill. 94)
Scot McKendrick, The History of Alexander the Great: an Illuminated Manuscript of Vasco da Lucena’s French Translation of the Ancient Text by Quintus Curtius Rufus (Getty Museum Monographs on Illuminated Manuscripts), Los Angeles 1996
Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.72
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.580 (Wijsman 2010: M Chattering Hands, no. 08)
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 127