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1918  :  Histoire d'Alexandre

Number

1918


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Burney 169

Owners before c.1550

  • Philippe de Cluys (knight of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, bailiff of Morea)

Commissioners

/

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : 1468-1475 (shortly before 1475)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 202 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 430 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 315 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations :
  • Total number of illustrations :
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Chroniques d'Angleterre
  • Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes ?

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 18th c. ?
  • Dating : 1700-1800


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

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.261-2

Pascal Schandel & Ilona Hans-Collas, with the collaboration of Hanno Wijsman and scientific advice by François Avril, Manuscrits enluminés des anciens Pays-Bas méridionaux, Vol. I: Louis de Bruges, Paris-Leuven 2009, p.183

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.296

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

Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 019

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7984&CollID=18&NStart=169

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman