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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