2037 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2037
Shelf Marks
- London, BL, Royal 20 C iii
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
United Kingdom
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1485-1490
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1480 - 1489
Physical description
Measurements
- 257 leaves
- Size categories of height : 375-399 mm
- Height of text blocks : 381 mm
- Width of text blocks : 278 mm
Illustrations
- Information on the illustrations :
- Total number of illustrations : 10
- Number of miniatures : 10
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Edward IV (and follower)
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : modern (white parchment over thick paste board)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
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
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.295-6
George F. Warner & Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols, London 1921, vol. II, p. 371b
Scot McKendrick, Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts 1400-1500, London 2003, ill. 083
Online Informations and images
Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7937&CollID=16&NStart=200303