1585 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
1585
Shelf Marks
- Firenze, BML, Med Pal 155
Owners before c.1550
- Fam. Croy ?
Commissioners
/
Country
Italy
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Details : Flanders
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 261 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 381 mm
- Width of text blocks : 265 mm
Illustrations
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Miniaturists
- M Flemish Boetius (influence)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (gold-tooled leather)
- 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
Andrea Galeazzi (ed.), Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence 1986 , ill. 158
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman