1421 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
1421
Shelf Marks
- Cologny-Genève, Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, 53
- Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Memb. I 116
- Nassau family (untill 1757)
Owners before c.1550
- Fam. Nassau ?
Commissioners
/
Country
Switzerland
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Wauquelin (?)
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 171 (1+168+2) (161?) leaves
- Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
- Height of text blocks : 400 mm
- Width of text blocks : 290 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 21
- Number of miniatures : 21
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Margaret of York ?
- M Bruges Genealogia Deorum ?
- M Anthony of Burgundy (influence)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 17th c.
- Dating : 1600-1700
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Leonardo Olschki, Manuscrits français à peintures des bibliothèques d’Allemagne, Geneva 1932, pl. 64 (frontispiece book 5)
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 233, M Anthony of Burgundy (follower)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Hiero
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 (Fig. 14, 16, 19 (f.3, 38, 64v)
Françoise Vielliard, Manuscrits français du Moyen Age (Bibliotheca Bodmeriana Catalogues, 2), Cologny (Geneva) 1975, p. 133
Online Informations and images
Digital facsimile: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/description/cb/0053