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1749  :  Histoire d'Alexandre

Number

1749


Shelf Marks

  • Jena, ThULB, El fol 89

Owners before c.1550

  • Fam. Nassau
  • Hendrik III of Nassau
  • Elector of Saxony (gift 1538)

Commissioners

/

Country

Germany


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470-1480 (after 1468 / c.1480 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 189 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 360 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 260 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 9
  • Number of miniatures : 9
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Bruges Genealogia Deorum
  • M Anthony of Burgundy (influence)

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 16th c./17th c. (blind-tooled leather, bosses, clasps)
  • Dating : 1550-1600


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. 34 (frontispiece book 9)

Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: Mazerolles (follower)

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. 116, M Anthony of Burgundy, Liédet, m Hiero (influence), of Philip of Cleves

Edith Rothe, Buchmalerei aus zwölf Jahrhunderten: die schönsten illuminierten Handschriften in den Bibliotheken und Archiven der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Berlin 1966, no. 119 (ill. f.91)

Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Loyset Liédet ?

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. 15, 20 (f.2, 132)

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.218 (M Bruges Genealogia Deorum)

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.264, 462

Irmgard Kratzsch, Schätze der Buchmalerei. Aus der Handschriftensammlung der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Jena 2001, no. 13

G. Huber-Rebenich & Irmgard Kratzsch, Handschriften und alte Drucke: Texte antiker Schulautoren. Kostbarkeiten des 12.–18. Jahrhunderts aus den Beständen der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena, Jena 1996, no. 27

Online Informations and images

Digital facsimile: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00016585

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman