2658 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2658
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 257
Owners before c.1550
- Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
- Louis XII of France
Commissioners
/
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
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Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges ?
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Date
- Date details : c.1475-1477
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 221 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 374 mm
- Width of text blocks : 265 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 45
- Number of miniatures : 45
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Bruges Genealogia Deorum
- M Margaret of York (circle)
- Lieven van Lathem (influence)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 258, Van Lathem (influence), of Lodewijk van Gruuthuse
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, p.226
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992, cat. no. 14 (ill. p.183, 185, 186, 186, 187, 188)
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, Fig. 11, 17, 18 (f.1, 39v, 114v)
Maurits Smeyers, Vlaamse miniaturen van de 8ste tot het midden van de 16de eeuw: de middeleeuwse wereld op perkament, Leuven 1998 [also published in French and English: Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the mid-16th Century. The Medieval World on Parchment, Turnhout 1999], p.357
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. 267 (f. A), p.376 (f. A)
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, p.218 (M Bruges Genealogia Deorum)
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, no. 28
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.264
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, No. 072, p. 303
Claudine Lemaire, ‘Lijst van handschriften’, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Lodewijk van Gruuthuse. Mecenas en Europees diplomaat, ca. 1427-1492, Bruges 1992: Lodewijk van Gruuthuse, no. 081
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10511088k ; See also: http://mandragore.bnf.fr
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 5 photos (f.1, 39v, 68v, 93, 114v)