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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

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Details : Flanders
  • 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