2548 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2548
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BA, 3687
- Paulmy
- Duc de La Vallière
Owners before c.1550
- Fam. van der Merrewe (1521)
Commissioners
- Fam. van der Merrewe ?
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1500-1520 (1521 ?)
- Half centuries : 1500-1549
- Decade : 1510 - 1519
Physical description
Measurements
- 168 (2+2+162+2) leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 364 mm
- Width of text blocks : 264 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations : 1 large, 9 small miniatures
- Total number of illustrations : 10
- Number of miniatures : 10
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
Material
Paper
Binding
- Description : (lightbrown calf)
- Dating : Unknown
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
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Les manuscrits de Jean II, comte d’Oettingen ou la fin d’une légende’, Anny Raman & Eugène Manning, Miscellanea Martin Wittek. Album de codicologie et de paléographie offert à Martin Wittek, Leuven 1993, 243-253, (as 9687)
Online Informations and images
See: http://images.bnf.fr/
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: no photos
Responsable
Hanno Wijsman