2927 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2927
Shelf Marks
- Paris, Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux -Arts de la Ville de Paris), Dutuit 456
- Coislin
- Bourdillon
- Morel de Vindé
Owners before c.1550
- Philip the Good
- Library Burgundian Dukes
- Philip the Fair
- gift to Margaret of Austria
Commissioners
- Philip the Good
- Sovereign: Prince
- Gender : Man
Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Scribe
David Aubert ?
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1460-1465 (after 1448 / before 1467 / c.1457-1459 ??)
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 327 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 393 mm
- Width of text blocks : 273 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 204
- Number of miniatures : 204
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Willem Vrelant
- M Vraie chronique dEscoce
- Lieven van Lathem
- M Reine Ratio
- M Roi Modus
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : 19th c. (red morocco) (original binding in yellow leather)
- 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. 044a+b (f.88, f.131)
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. 066-67
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: Vrelant, Lieven Van Lathem
Bernard Bousmanne, Guillaume Wielant of Willem Vrelant. Miniaturist aan het Bourgondische hof in de 15e eeuw, exhib. cat., Brussels 1997 [also published in French], 30
Eva Wolf, Das Bild in der spätmittelalterlichen Buchmalerei: das Sachsenheim-Gebetbuch im Werk Lievin van Lathems, Hildesheim 1996, cat. no. 13 (4 ill., Vrelant and collaborators, Lathem (5 min.), Master of Girart de Roussillon (2 min.))
Anne Hagiopan van Buren, ‘Willem Vrelant, Questions and Issues’, Revue belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, 68 (1999), 3-30, Vrelant and M Polemical Texts
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.24, 78
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.202, 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. 110, 239, 256, 287
Marguerite Debae, La bibliothèque de Marguerite d’Autriche. Essai de reconstitution d’après l’inventaire de 1523-1524, Leuven 1995: Margaret of Austria, no. 046 ?
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
Photo Archives
Brussels, IRPA-KIK, File France 13-16 (192 photos)