2110 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2110
Shelf Marks
- Los Angeles, JP Getty Museum, Ludwig XV 8 (acc. 83.MP.151)
- Kraus 1961, no. 21
- Kraus, In Retrospect, no. 80
Owners before c.1550
- Fam. Croy ?
Commissioners
/
Country
USA
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Du Quesne
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : c.1470 (1468-1479)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 238 (1+237) leaves
- Size categories of height : (no data) mm
- Height of text blocks : (no data) mm
- Width of text blocks : (no data) mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 14
- Number of miniatures : 14
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Emblems and Heraldry
(erased arms, said to be Croy, but uncertain)
Miniaturists
- M Margaret of York
- M Jardin de Vertueuse Consolation
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (red velvet over wooden boards)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M Margaret of York
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, ill. p.185 (f.15), p.187 (f.149)
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
Walter Prevenier et al., Prinsen en poorters. Beelden van de laat-middeleeuwse samenleving in de Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1998 [also published in French: Le prince et le peuple. Images de la société du temps des ducs de Bourgogne 1384-1530, Antwerp 1998], p. 150 (f.99)
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, no. 063
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.47, 63, 135, 140, 143, 148, 154
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
Heribert Tenschert (ed.), Kataloge Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert: Leuchtendes Mittelalter, vol. III, Rotthalmünster 1991, p. 464 (M Margeret of York (circle))
Anton von Euw & Joachim M. Plotzek, Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig, 4 vols., Cologne 1979-1985, no. XV 8 (14 ill.)
Online Informations and images
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1440