This book reproduces in color all fourteen images from a fifteenth-century manuscript, now part of the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. One of the finest illuminated secular manuscripts produced in the Netherlands during the period, the manuscript features miniatures that illustrate important episodes from the short life of the legendary Macedonian general. Titled Les fais d'Alexandre le grant, the manuscript is itself a translation of a text attributed to first-century Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, whose Latin ...
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This book reproduces in color all fourteen images from a fifteenth-century manuscript, now part of the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. One of the finest illuminated secular manuscripts produced in the Netherlands during the period, the manuscript features miniatures that illustrate important episodes from the short life of the legendary Macedonian general. Titled Les fais d'Alexandre le grant, the manuscript is itself a translation of a text attributed to first-century Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, whose Latin text is one of our principal literary sources for our knowledge of Alexander. McKendrick's authoritative text places the Getty's manuscript in its contexts as history and art and explains how the text and illuminations have much to tell us as well about the politics and aesthetics of the Burgundian Netherlands and the development of secular culture in Western Europe.
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VG+/VG+ Dark green cloth in similarly colored cloth slipcase with embossed title on spine of both. 116 pp. with numerous colour and b/w illustrations and maps. Contents as follows: Foreword / John Walsh--Map of the world of Alexander the Great--Alexander the Great: history, legend, and Curtius's Historiae Alexandri magni--Map of the Burgundian Netherlands--Vasco da Lucena's Les fais d'Alexandre le grant--The Getty Manuscript--Final assessment: From Fabula to historia--Plates: the miniatures and their subjects--Appendix 1. Summary description of the Getty Manuscript--Appendix 2. Surviving manuscripts of Vasco's translation--Appendix 3. Subjects of the large miniatures in the Getty, Bodmer, Jena, and Paris manuscripts. Reproduces in color all fourteen images from a fifteenth-century manuscripts in the Getty Museum.
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Very Good. 1996. Quarter cloth over pictorial boards. Atlas folio. 105 pp. Illustrated, including 14 plates. Includes cloth with inset illustration slipcase as issued. Mild wear and scuffing to slipcase. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Medieval, Art & Illumination. )
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Like New. A beautiful copy. Text in mint/unmarked condition. Slipcase has surface rubbings. Binding is tight. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily.
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Very good. No DJ, as issued. Very slight rubbing of spine letters, else VG in a VG cutaway slipcase. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.
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Near Fine with no dust jacket. 0892363711. About new book but for lightly sunned triangle to top spine corner; stiff bright and crisp. A beautiful book.; Getty Museum Monographs on Illuminated Manuscripts; 19.75 X 13.75 X 1.75 inches.
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Presumed first edition/first printing thus
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Published:
1996
Language:
English
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13469939121
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Very good. No slipcase present. Minor wear to cover (small edge dings). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xi, [3] 105, [1] p. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Suggestions for Further Reading Foreword by John Walsh. From Wikipedia: "Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great, " or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, " Apart from his name on the manuscripts, nothing else certain is known of him. This fact alone has led philologists to believe that he had another historical identity, to which, due to the accidents of time, the link has been broken. Meanwhile the identity of Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian, is maintained separately."
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New. Reproduces 14 images from a 15th century manuscript, now in the J. Paul Getty Musuem. The commentary places the manuscript within its context as an account of Alexander's life. Series: Monographs on Illuminated Manuscripts. Num Pages: 117 pages, 29 col and 13 b/w plates. BIC Classification: AC; AFT; AKLB; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 430 x 349 x 44. Weight in Grams: 3992. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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