Shelfmark
He1.1.09
Author
Lambert le Tort,
Title
The romance of Alexander : a collotype facsimile of ms. Bodley 264 / with an introduction by M. R. James.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1933.
Physical description
[6], 50 p., 208 leaves, [4] leaves of plates : facsims. (4 col.) ; 45 cm.
Note
Reproduces only the first part of the manuscript (fol. 1-208) containing the French metrical Roman d'Alexandre, the oldest and most extensive part by Lambert le Tort, with additions by Alexandre de Bernay, who probably revised the whole. Includes the following interpolations: Li fuerres de Gadres, by one Eustache, rewritten by Alexandre de Bernay; Le duc Melchis, author unknown; Les voeux du paon, by Jacques de Longuyon; Restor du paon, by Jean Brisebare; Alexander's Voyage au Paradis, author unknown; La vengeance du boin roy Alixandre, by Jean le Nevelons.
Note
The manuscript, in the Picard dialect, was finished in 1338, and the beautiful illuminations by Jehan de Grise, in 1344.
Note
Publisher's dark blue cloth; gilt stamped spine title; with cream paper dust-jacket.
Provenance
Donated to ECL by Brian Corrigan from the library of his wife Damaris Moore Corrigan.
Subject
Alexander, 356 - 323 B.C the Great,
Subject
Illumination of books and manuscripts Specimens
Subject
Manuscripts Facsimiles
Added entry--name
Alexandre de Bernay,
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Jacques, active 1290 - 1312 de Longuyon,
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James, M.R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862 - 1936 (Montague Rhodes),
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Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Language code
frm eng frm
Identifier
B49472