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2621  :  Histoire d'Alexandre

Number

2621


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 48 (+ fr 47-49)

Owners before c.1550

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Commissioners

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Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479

Physical description

Measurements

  • 089 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 478 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 337 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 25
  • Number of miniatures : 25
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Chroniques d'Angleterre

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : (red morocco, Philippe de Béthune)
  • Dating : Modern binding


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Quintus Curtius Rufus

Translators

  • Vasco da Lucena

Contents

  • 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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. 034 (p.44-45): 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

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.92-93, 183

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. 318, 323-327, 330

Online Informations and images

See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9009636s

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 6 photos (f.2, 29, 33, 63, 73v, 83)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman