2757 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2757
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 6440 (anc. suppl. fr. 3201, 3)
Owners before c.1550
Commissioners
- Nobility
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Hainaut
- Towns : Mons
- Details : Mons ? (Hainaut)
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Date
- Date details : c.1490-1497 (before 1497)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1490 - 1499
Physical description
Measurements
- 257 (15+242) leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 480 mm
- Width of text blocks : 370 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 19
- Number of miniatures : 19
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Ariana 1
- M Antoine Rolin (follower)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (Napoleon I)
- Dating : 1800-1900
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 071 (f.152v)
Walter Prevenier & Wim Blockmans, De Bourgondische Nederlanden, Antwerp 1982 [also published in English and French: The Burgundian Netherlands, Cambridge 1986; Les Pays-Bas bourguignons, Antwerp 1982], ill. 227 (f.173)
Anne-Marie Legaré, Le livre des échecs amoureux, Paris 1991, no. 29, M Antoine Rolin (circle)
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
Scot McKendrick, ‘Illustrated Manuscripts of Vasco da Lucena’s Translation of Curtius’s Historiae Alexandri Magni: Nature Corrupted by Fortune?’, Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel & Margaret M. Smith (eds.), Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, Los Altos Hills-London 1996, 131-149, f.13, 15v, 62v, 163v, 171
Bodo Brinkmann, Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs: der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit, 2 vols., Turnhout 1997, p.220 (M Antoine Rolin)
Bert Cardon, Jan Van der Stock & Dominique Vanwijnsberghe (eds.), Als ich can. Liber Amicorum in Memory of Professor Dr. Maurits Smeyers (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 11-12), Leuven 2002, p.0773, 783
Brigitte Dekeyser & Jan Van der Stock, Manuscripts in Transition. Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images. Proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002) (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 15), Leuven 2005, p.412, 416-417
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.470, 520, 543
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. 065
Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 138 (ill. 56: f.IIIv)
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90604270
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 9 photos