2621 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Number
2621
Shelf Marks
- Paris, BNF, fr 48 (+ fr 47-49)
Owners before c.1550
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Commissioners
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Country
France
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Date
- Date details : c.1470
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1470 - 1479
Physical description
Measurements
- 089 leaves
- Size categories of height : 475-499 mm
- Height of text blocks : 478 mm
- Width of text blocks : 337 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 25
- Number of miniatures : 25
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- M Chroniques d'Angleterre
Material
Parchment
Binding
- Description : (red morocco, Philippe de Béthune)
- Dating : Modern binding
Content
Genre
historiographic
Authors
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
Translators
- Vasco da Lucena
Contents
- 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Otto Pächt, Ulrike Jenni & Dagmar Thoss, Flämische Schule II (Tafelband und Textband) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Schrift- und Buchwesen des Mittelalters. Reihe 1, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, 7), Vienna 1990, fig. 034 (p.44-45): M Chronique d'Angleterre
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
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.92-93, 183
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. 318, 323-327, 330
Online Informations and images
See: http://mandragore.bnf.fr; http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9009636s
Photo Archives
Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 6 photos (f.2, 29, 33, 63, 73v, 83)