1452 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
1452
Shelf Marks
- Kobenhavn, KB, Thott 540 fol
Owners before c.1550
- Anthony of Burgundy (the Great Bastard)
- Adolphe of Burgundy
Commissioners
- Anthony of Burgundy (the Great Bastard) ?
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
Denmark
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1469 (after 1468)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 255 leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 440 mm
- Width of text blocks : 350 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 9
- Number of miniatures : 9
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
"Nul ne s'y frotte, ob. de Bourgogne"; "Nul ne s'y frotte, ainsy le veul"; "Nul ne l'aproche, de Bourgogne"
Miniaturists
- M Chroniques d'Angleterre
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (half binding)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
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
Pierre Cockshaw & Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens (eds.), L’ordre de la Toison d’or de Philippe le Bon à Philippe le Beau (1430-1505). Idéal ou reflet d’une société?, Turnhout 1996, Section VI-36
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.666-667
Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 323
N.C.L. Abrahams, Description des manuscrits français du moyen âge de la Bibliothèque Royale de Copenhague, Copenhagen 1844, no. 26
Christiane Van den Bergen-Pantens, ‘Héraldique et bibliophilie: Le cas d’Antoine, Grand Bâtard de Bourgogne (1421-1504)’, Anny Raman & Eugène Manning (eds.), Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album de codicologie et de paléographie offer à Martin Wittek, Leuven 1993, 323-354: Anthony of Burgundy, no. 18