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2467  :  Histoire d'Alexandre

Number

2467


Shelf Marks

  • Oxford, BL, Laud misc 751
  • William Laud (archbishop of Canterbury), 1637
  • Adriaan Cornelis (Valkenburg) ?

Owners before c.1550

  • Engelbert II of Nassau ?

Commissioners

  • Engelbert II of Nassau ?
    • Nobility
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

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

Physical description

Measurements

  • 249 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 500-524 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 505 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 370 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 13 large and 6 small miniatures
  • Total number of illustrations : 19
  • Number of miniatures : 19
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Chroniques d'Angleterre
  • M Chattering Hands

Material

Parchment

Contemporary Bindings


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Quintus Curtius Rufus

Translators

  • Vasco da Lucena

Contents

  • 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 048 (f.127)

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. 028 (p.44): M Chronique d'Angleterre

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

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, ill. f.17, 19v, 64, 165, 172

Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0783, 1654

Hanno Wijsman (ed.), with the collaboration of Ann Kelders and Susie Speakman Sutch, Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries (Burgundica, 15), Turnhout 2010, p.047

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.65, 462-463, 470, 532, 543, 583, 676 (M Chattering Hands, no. 30)

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. 284

Otto Pächt and J.J.G. Alexander, Illuminated manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, 3 vols., Oxford 1966-1973, vol. 1: 357 (2 ill. f.19v, 127)

Online Informations and images

See : http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/view/search/what/MS.%20Laud%20Misc.%20751?q=Laud%20Misc.%20751

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman