2812 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2812
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 22547
- Duc de La Vallière (Sale, De Bure, 1783, n° 4844)
- Jean Louis Gaignat (Sale, De Bure, 1769, no. 2875)
Owners before c.1550
- Charles the Bold
Commissioners
- Charles the Bold
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
Yvonnet le Jeune
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Flanders
- Towns : Bruges
- Details : Bruges
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Date
- Date details : 1470
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 269 leaves
- Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
- Height of text blocks : 430 mm
- Width of text blocks : 325 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 86
- Number of miniatures : 86
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Loyset Liédet (and workshop)
- M Mary of Burgundy
- Lieven van Lathem ?
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (green morocco)
- Dating : Unknown
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Friedrich Winkler, Die Flämische Buchmalerei des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts: Künstler und Werke von den Brüdern van Eyck bis zu Simon Bening, Leipzig 1925: Liédet
Paul Durrieu, La miniature flamande au temps de la cour de Bourgogne (1415-1530), Brussels 1921, no. 025, 26 (f.1, f.50)
Claudine Lemaire & Antoine De Schryver, ‘De bibliotheek van Lodewijk van Gruuthuse’ Vlaamse kunst op perkament, exhib. cat., Bruges 1981, 207-277, no. 107
Edmund Bowles, Musical Performance in the Late Middle Ages / La pratique musicale au moyen âge, Geneva 1983, no. 081 (f.101)
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. 279 (f.1)
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Loyset Liédet
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. 3 (f.1)
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, no. 054
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.44, 119, 124, 282
Hanno Wijsman, Handschriften voor het hertogdom. De mooiste verluchte manuscripten van hertogen, adellieden, kloosterlingen en stedelingen, ’s-Hertogenbosch 2006, no. 02
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.538
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. 065, p. 075-76, 111, 181, 267, 278, 280-282, 305, 326
A. De Schryver, M. Dykmans and J. Ruysschaert, Le Pontifical du Cardinal Ferry de Clugny, evêque de Tournai, Città del Vaticano 1989 (3 ill.: f.1, 99v, 258)
Online Informations and images
Digitisation: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8449039t ; See also: http://mandragore.bnf.fr
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File France 11-12 (82 photos); Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 28 photos