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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

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman