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
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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