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2725  :  Histoire d'Alexandre

Number

2725


Shelf Marks

  • Paris, BNF, fr 1419
  • Cardinal Mazarin

Owners before c.1550

  • Philip the Good
  • Library Burgundian Dukes

Commissioners

  • Philip the Good ?
    • Sovereign: Prince
    • Gender : Man

Country

France


Ownership Category

Public

Scribe

Jean Wauquelin (?)

Origin

  • Date
    • Date details : c.1440-1460 (before 1467)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1450 - 1459


Physical description

Measurements

  • 378 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 275-299 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 290 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 200 mm

Illustrations

  • Total number of illustrations : 1
  • Number of miniatures :
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :

Material

Paper

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

historiographic

Authors

  • Jean Wauquelin

Translators

/

Contents

  • 1 : Histoire d'Alexandre

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 041, Mons, 1447, Wauquelin

Georges Dogaer & Marguerite Debae, La librairie de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels 1967 [also published in Dutch: De librije van Filips de Goede, Brussels 1967] (in list p. 161-163)

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.233, 248, 251

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. 069, 110, 180

Chrystèle Blondeau, ‘Arthur et Alexandre le Grand sous le principat de Philippe le Bon: Les témoins d’un imaginaire en mutation’, Jean-Marie Cauchies (ed.), Le héros bourguignon: histoire et epopee (Publication du Centre européen d’études bourguignonnes, 41), Neuchâtel 2001, 223-246, p. 229

Thomas Falmagne & Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries. Volume V: Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussels (forthcoming in 2010): Dukes of Burgundy

Online Informations and images

See: http://images.bnf.fr/ ; Digitised microfilm: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9009670t

Photo Archives

Paris, BNF, bl-w photo collection: 1 photo (f.16v)

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman