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2771  :  Histoire d'Alexandre

Number

2771


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 9342 (anc. suppl. fr. 3267)

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good
  • Library Burgundian Dukes

Commissioners

  • Philip the Good ?
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jacques du Bois

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges ?
  • Date
    • Date details : 1448 (after 1448 ? / c.1460)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459

Physical description

Measurements

  • 227 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 435 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 305 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 82
  • Number of miniatures : 82
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Wauquelin's Alexander
  • M Liriopé
  • M Jewish Proc.

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : 19th c. (Napoleon I)
  • Dating : 1800-1900


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Jean Wauquelin

Translators

/

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. 037 (f.5)

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. 040, Mons, 1448, Wauqelin, for Philip the Good (ill. 18-19: f.214v, f.127)

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)

Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule I (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 6), Vienna 1983, fig. 043 (frontispiece), 58-62

Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 040 (f.13)

Bert Cardon, Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c. 1410 - c. 1470). A Contribution to the Study of the 15th-Century Book Illumination and of the Function and Meaning of Historical Symbolism (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts, 9), Leuven 1996

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], Fig. 6.17 (p.182)

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. 030 (f.22), p.191 (f.210), p.242 (f.91), p.333 (f.5)

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.0371, 1378

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.258

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.124-125

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.168, 233, 248, 251, 265, 267

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. 020, p. 023, 30, 65-66, 70, 88, 110, 175-178, 180-181, 188, 190, 326

Cyriel Stroo, De celebratie van de macht. Presentatieminiaturen een aanverwante voorstellingen in handschriften van Philips de Goede (1419-1467) en Karel de Stoute (1467-1477) (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. Nieuwe reeks, 7), Turnhout 2002, ill. 067

J. Lacarrière & C. Raynaud, Alexandre le Grand. Le conquérant de l'absolu, Paris 1993

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

Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000083z; See also: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/

Photo Archives

Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File France 10 (photo of f. 1); Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 73 photos

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman