1617 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
1617
Shelf Marks
- Genève, BGE, fr 76
- Petau
Owners before c.1550
- Johann von Oettingen
Commissioners
/
Country
Switzerland
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1480-1490 (c.1490-1500 ?)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 279 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 390 mm
- Width of text blocks : 282 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 10 large, 30 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 40
- Number of miniatures : 40
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Edward IV
- other hand
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Bulletin de la Société française de reproductions de manuscrits à peintures, Paris 1912, ill. 45 (f.234)
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. 261, M Edward IV, of Fam. Oetingen
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 106 (p.105): M Edward IV
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Edward IV
Maurits Smeyers en Jan Van der Stock (eds.), Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997 [also published in Dutch: Vlaamse miniaturen voor vorsten en burgers, 1475-1550, Ghent 1997], p. 035
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
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, (Master Edward IV)
Thomas Kren & Scot McKendrick, with contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Mari-Tere Alvarez, Brigitte Dekeyser, Richard Gay, Elisabeth Morrison & Catherine Reynolds, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, exhib. cat., Los Angeles-London 2003, p.295-6
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.466-467
Heinz Matile et al., Die Burgunderbeute und Werke burgundischer Hofkunst: Bernisches Historisches Museum, exhib. cat., Bern 1969, no. 230 (ill f.1)
Bernard Gagnebin, L’enluminure de Charlemagne à Francois Ier. Les manuscrits à peintures de la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève, Geneva 1976, no. 70 (3 ill.)
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010: Johann von Oettingen, no. 2
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Les manuscrits de Jean II, comte d’Oettingen ou la fin d’une légende’, Anny Raman & Eugène Manning, Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album de codicologie et de paléographie offert à Martin Wittek, Leuven 1993, 243-253: Johann von Oettingen no. 6
Online Informations and images
Digital facsimile: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/fr/searchresult/list/one/bge/fr0076