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454  :  Commentarii de bello gallico

Number

454


Shelf Marks

  • unknown location
  • Sourget (2004)
  • Jörn Günther (2003)
  • Christie's 2002-06-13, no. 2
  • Longleat, Marquess of Bath
  • Beriah Botfield 2
  • Duc de la Vallière

Owners before c.1550

  • André de Haracourt (Lorraine)

Commissioners

/

Country

unknown


Ownership Category

Private

Scribe

Jean Du Quesne (?)

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Bruges
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1480 (1478-1479 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1480 - 1489

Physical description

Measurements

  • 326 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 425-449 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 435 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 320 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 15
  • Number of miniatures : 11
  • Number of historiated initials : 4
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • M Pierre de Luxembourg's Caesar

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description : modern (red morocco, Beriah Botfield)
  • Dating : Modern binding


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Julius Caesar

Translators

  • Jean Du Quesne (Jean Du Chesne)

Contents

  • 1 : Commentarii de bello gallico

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

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, p.31

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman