2725 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2725
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 1419
- Cardinal Mazarin
Owners before c.1550
- Philip the Good
- Library Burgundian Dukes
Commissioners
- Philip the Good ?
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Jean Wauquelin (?)
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1440-1460 (before 1467)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1450 - 1459
Physical description
Measurements
- 378 leaves
- Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
- Height of text blocks : 290 mm
- Width of text blocks : 200 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 1
- Number of miniatures :
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
Material
Paper
Binding
- Description :
- Dating : (no data)
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Jean Wauquelin
Translators
/
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. 041, Mons, 1447, Wauquelin
Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967] (in list p. 161-163)
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.233, 248, 251
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. 069, 110, 180
Chrystèle Blondeau, ‘Arthur et Alexandre le Grand sous le principat de Philippe le Bon: Les témoins d’un imaginaire en mutation’, Jean-Marie Cauchies (ed.), Le héros bourguignon: histoire et epopee (Publication du Centre européen d’études bourguignonnes, 41), Neuchâtel 2001, 223-246, p. 229
Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy
Online Informations and images
See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9009670t
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo (f.16v)