2008 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2008
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 17 F i
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Du Quesne
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Lille
- Details : Lille ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1470-1480
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 239 (1+238) leaves
- Size categories of height : 450-474 mm
- Height of text blocks : 457 mm
- Width of text blocks : 343 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations :
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
open space for arms
Miniaturists
- M Tournai Evangelary
- other hand
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
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, Fig. 4 (f.14)
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.160, 266
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. 406
Scot McKendrick, ‘Illustrated Manuscripts of Vasco da Lucena’s Translation of Curtius’s Historiae Alexandri Magni: Nature Corrupted by Fortune?’, Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel & Margaret M. Smith (eds.), Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, Los Altos Hills-London 1996, 131-149, p. 133 & 144
George F. Warner & Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols, London 1921, vol. II, p. 261a
Janet Backhouse, ‘Founders of the Royal Library: Edward IV and Henry VII as Collectors of Illuminated Manuscripts’, England in the Fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, Woodbridge 1987, 23-41: Royal Library, list 3
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5693&CollID=16&NStart=170601