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Royal MS 19 D I
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- 040-002107624
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- 032-002105724
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000338.0x000392
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- Royal MS 19 D I
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- Roman d'Alexandre en prose and other texts
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The manuscript includes eight works forming a compendium of the wonders of the East combined with crusading texts:
ff. 1r-46r: Roman d'Alexandre en prose, entitled here La vraie ystoire dou bon roi Alixandre, an anonymous translation into French of Leo of Naples, Historia de proeliis; rubric: 'Ci commence le livre et la vraie hystoire du bon roy Alixandre…'; incipit: 'Puis que li premiers peres de lumain lignage'; explicit: 'et li et touz les siens . si comme vous auez oi ci deuant en cest liure. Amen. Explicit le livre dalixandre'. This is followed by a rubric (probably intended for a miniature) 'Coment len trencha la teste de la roine Olimpias et fu le cors gete aus chiens et aus oisiaus’.
ff. 47r-57r: Jean le Nevelon (or le Venelais), La Venjance Alixandre in Old French verse, a chanson de geste in 1880 lines, on how Alior punished Antipater and others for Alexander's death, with rubric in four lines: 'Ici est la vengance du grant roy Alixandre, Conques de roi ne fu si grant esclandre, Car il fu sires et rois de tout li mondes Et des poissons de la mer, et des ondes.' The author identifies himself in 1ine 36 as 'Jehan li Venelais'. Incipit: 'Seigneurs oez .i. petit mentendez, Le senz de nul sage home ne doit estre celez.' ; explicit :'Les traitors sont mors et liurez a martyre. Alixandre est vengie si com vous oez lire.' Colophon: 'Explicit la veniance Alixandre.'
ff. 58r-135r: Marco Polo, Le devisement du monde (Travels) in revised version attributed to Thibault de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for a projected crusade of Charles of Valois, and Jean de Cépoy, admiral of the fleet for the projected crusade of Philip VI of France. Rubric: 'Ci commence li livres du grant Caam, qui parole de la grant Ermenie de Persse et des Tartars et dynde, et des granz merveille qui par le monde sont'. Prologue, incipit: 'Pour savoir la pure verite des diverses regions du monde'; explicit : 'par mestre Rasta Pysan (sic) qui en cele meismes prison estoit au temps que ii couroit de Crist mil cc. et iiiixx. et xviii. anz de lincarnation'. Text incipit: 'Il fu voirs au temps que Bauduins'; explicit : 'et la portoit devant son pere et ce faisoit elle souvent'. Colophon, 'Explicit le livre nomme du grant Kaan de la grant cite de Cambalut'.
ff. 136v-148r: Jean de Vignay, Merveilles de la terre d'outremer (translation of Odoric de Pordenone, Itinerarium into French). Rubric: 'Ci commencent les merveilles de la terre doutre mer selonc ce que frere Odoriq du Marchie Iulien de lordre des freres meneurs tesmoigne translatees en francois par frere Iehen de Vygnai hospitalier de lordre de haut pas' ; incipit : 'Ia soit ce que moult de plusieurs manieres de gens'; explicit : 'de qui touz biens viennent. Frere Guillaume Sollengin de lordre des meneurs mist loiaument en escript toutes les devant dites choses si comme le dit frere Odoric li devisa de sa propre bouche en lan de nostre seigneur mil ccc. et -xxx. el mois de mai en la cite despade (Padua) el lieu saint Anthoine . . . Et le dit frere Odoric trespassa de cest siecle en nostre seigneur assez tost apres cest assavoir lan de nostre seigneur mil .ccc. xxxii. (sic, for 1331) el .xiiii. iour de ienvier el couvent de Venise (sic, for Udine), et est ennobli el dit couvent par moult de grans miracles'.
ff. 148v-165v: Iohannes de Plano Carpini (Giovanni di Pian del Carpino), Travels to the East (Historia mongolorum quos nos tartaros appellamus) in the abridgement of Vincent de Beauvais, Speculum Historiale, 32, 2-66, in the unique French translation perhaps by Jean de Vignay. Rubric: 'Ci apres commence des autres devisions de la terre devant dite comment le pape Innocent envoia premierement les freres meneurs et les freres prescheeurs en mesage aus Tartarins pour eulz convertir a la divine escripture et il rapo[r]terent toute la maniere du pais par escript'; Incipit : 'El premier an de Innocent le pape le quart de cesti nom et en lan xxxiiii. (sic for 33) de lempiere Federic le secont'; explicit : 'cil qui meurt en obedience est saintefie comme angre'.
ff. 165v-192v: Directorium ad faciendum passagium transmarinum of an anonymous Dominican, originally addressed to King Philip VI of France in 1332, and translated in French in 1333 by Jean de Vignay (a unique example of the translation) as Le Directoire a faire le passage de la Terre Sainte. The Directorium was formerly attributed to the German Dominican Brocardus or Burchardus of Mount Sion. The authorship of the Latin is not directly stated, and the attribution to Burchard rests on the authority of Jean Mielot, who made in 1455 another French translation of the work (see discussion in Warner and Gilson). Rubric: 'El non du pere . . . ici conmence le directoire cest a dire lesdroitement ou voie droituriere a faire le passage de la terre sainte ordene par .i. frere de lordre des prescheurs . . . au tres noble prince et seigneur monseigneur Phelippe roy de France lan de nostre seigneur. mil. ccc. xxxii. et fu translate en francois par Iehan de Vignay .lan. mil. ccc. xxxiii.' ; Prologue incipit: 'Du saint propos de vostre hautesce monseigneur le roy'; text incipit: 'La premiere chose adonc esmouvante'; explicit : 'non pas momentel et terrien mes perdurable et celestiel. Amen. amen'.
ff. 192v-251v: Primat of St Denis, Chronique in the unique translation of Jean de Vignay, executed at the request of Jeanne de Bourgogne, queen of France (1328-1348). De Vignay's translation begins in1250, and was intended to form a supplement to his version of Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Historiale, which he also translated for Jeanne, and which ends in that year. The translator inserted a chapter (f. 229v) on the miracles of St Louis which he had witnessed himself. Rubric: 'Ci commencent les chapitres et les croniques de Primat' ; the words 'hyst[oire] simple', which follow the name of Primat in the rubric of chapter 1 (f. 194r), are probably an instruction to the illuminator (cf. an erased addition to the rubric of chapter 2, 'hyst. Plene’). Text incipit: 'Vraiement la royne mere diceuls qui avoit nom madame Blanche'; ends 'et leur doinst en la fin regner en la gloire des cieulz. Amen. Explicit'.
ff. 252r-267v: Extracts from the Bible historiale in twenty-four chapters, entitled in the colophon: 'Pluseurs bataiies des roys disrael encontre les Philistiens et Assyriens', focused on the episodes from the story of David and Goliath to the siege of Samaria by Benhadad (1 Samuel, 27 -1 Kings, 20). Incipit: 'Comment li Philistien sassamblerent embataille encontre Israel'; explicit: 'et dolanz de grant maniere'.
Decoration:
2 large miniatures in colours and gold with foliate initials in colours and gold and full bar borders with heraldic devices and vine leaves (ff. 1r, 58r). 162 one or two-column miniatures in colours and gold, at the beginning of book or chapters, 124 of which are accompanied by preliminary sketches (e.g., ff. 11v-15v, 17v-19v, 39v, 40r, etc). Foliate initials in colours and gold, or puzzle initials in red and blue with red and brown pen-flourishing, at the beginning of some books or chapters. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing, or in red with brown pen-flourishing. According to Rouse 2000, illuminated by two artists: Jeanne de Montbaston, widow of the Parisian libraire Richard de Montbaston (d. 1353), illuminator and libraire, from 1353 'Illuminatrix libri jurata universitatis' (quires i-iv, ix-xviii, xx-xxi, xxiii-xxix, xxxi-xxxvii) and another illuminator (quires v-viii). The present manuscript was probably used as a model for the text and illustrations of Marco Polo, Travels, in Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 264, ff. 218-271, added in England c. 1410, which in 1466 belonged to Richard Wydevill, lord Rivers, father-in-law of Edward IV (see Dutschke, 1998).
Decoration: 163 miniatures in colours:
f. 1r, Four locations set out in a landscape: 'Le chastel en Chaire', ' Le jardin du baume', 'La cite de Babiloine' (also incsribed 'La cite Neptanabus, seingnur degypte, le pere Alixandre roy', with Nectanebus enthroned), and 'Les moulins de Babiloine'.
f. 1v, Nectanebus enthroned receiving a letter from two messengers.
f. 2r, Nectanebus seating on the roof and enchanting a basin of water; below Nectanebus having his head shaved; and Nectanebus in flight on horseback opening a gate.
f. 3r, Nectanebus and Olympias.
f. 4v, Nectanebus disguised as a dragon beside Olympias's bed.
f. 4v, Nectanebus as dragon kissing Olympias.
f. 5r, Philip taking Alexander to Aristotle.
f. 5v, Death of Nectanebus.
f. 6r, Bucephalus kneeling to Alexander.
f. 6r, Victory of Alexander over Nicolaus.
f. 7r, Coronation of Alexander.
f. 7v, Philip and Alexander dismissing Persian envoys.
f. 7v, Philip and Alexander setting out against Armenia.
f. 8r, Pausanias and others marching against Philip.
f. 8v, Defeat of Philip; Olympias in a tower and Pausanias.
f. 9r, Battle of Alexander and Pausanias.
f. 9r, Alexander enthroned, with Bucephalus under his feet, making an accession speech.
f. 9v, Alexander's army.
f. 10r, Alexander's fleet at sea.
f. 10v, Building of Alexandria.
f. 11r, Destruction of the city of Tyre.
f. 11v, Alexander at Jerusalem with the Chief Priest.
f. 12r, Darius, king of Persia, ordering the chiselling of a marble slab in order to make a portrait of Alexander.
f. 12r, Darius receiving Alexander's letter.
f. 13r, Darius dictating a letter to Alexander.
f. 13r, Alexander receiving Darius's letter (?).
f. 13v, Darius at table.
f. 14r, Meeting of Alexander and Olympias.
f. 14v, Meeting of Alexander and Darius.
f. 15r, Alexander addressing his army.
f. 15v, Battle between Alexander and the Persians
f. 16v, Darius receiving letters from India.
f. 17v, Battle between Alexander and the Persians.
f. 17v, Alexander receiving keys of a city.
f. 18r. Darius dictating letters to Alexander.
f. 18r, Alexander receiving letters from Darius.
f. 18v, Darius sending a messenger to India.
f. 19r, Indian army coming to aid Darius .
f. 19v, Alexander attacking Darius's city.
f. 20v, Burial of Darius.
f. 21r, Execution of Darius's murderers.
f. 22r, Alexander addressing his army.
f. 22v, Alexander receiving letters from Porrus, king of India.
f. 23r, Battle between Alexander and Porrus.
f. 23v, The Queen of the 'Macedonians' (Amazons) receiving Alexander's letter.
f. 25r, Meeting of Alexander and the Queen of the Amazons.
f. 26r, Alexander fighting dragons.
f. 26r, Alexander fighting crabs.
f. 26r: Alexander fighting a three-horned beast.
f. 26v, Alexander jousting with king Porrus.
f. 27r, Alexander killing Porrus.
f. 27r, Burial of Porrus.
f. 27v, Alexander building a city in the honour of king Porrus.
f. 27v, Alexander meeting a tribe of women using swords.
f. 28r, Alexander meeting a tribe living in caves.
f. 28v, Alexander receiving messengers of the gymnosophists.
f. 29r, Alexander encountering an elephant.
f. 29v, Alexander meeting a tribe of horned people.
f. 29v, Alexander meeting a tribe of women in water.
f. 29v, Alexander meeting a tribe with bull's feet.
f. 30r, Alexander reaching the river Pison.
f. 30v, Alexander receiving a letter from Dindimus.
f. 30v, Alexander having a letter inscribed on a column.
f. 31r, Alexander fighting with giants.
f. 31r, Alexander burning a wild man.
f. 31v, Alexander ascending a mountain.
f. 31v, Alexander finding an old man asleep.
f. 32r, Trees of the sun and moon.
f. 32r, Wild beasts presented to Alexander.
f. 32v, Candace receiving a letter.
f. 33r, Candaculus complaining to Alexander about the loss of his wife.
f. 33v, Alexander rescuing Candaculus's wife.
f. 34r, Meeting of Alexander and Candace.
f. 34v, Alexander reconciles her sons.
f. 35v, Alexander fighting dragons
f. 35v, Alexander fighting half-boar half-lion beasts.
f. 35v, Alexander fighting various beasts.
f. 36r, Alexander encountering women living in the water.
f. 36v, Alexander pulling down the city of King Ambira.
f. 37r, Alexander carried by griffins into the sky.
f. 37v, Alexander lowered into the sea in a cask.
f. 38r, Alexander in a tent with his barons.
f. 38r, Alexander fighting beasts.
f. 38r, Alexander fighting sheep-headed dragons,
f. 38v, Alexander fighting giants.
f. 38v, Alexander meeting men with heads beneath their shoulders.
f. 38v, Alexander fighting beasts with the corps of a horse and lion's feet.
f. 39r, Alexander mourning Bucephalus.
f. 39r, Burial of Bucephalus.
f. 39v, Alexander receiving gifts of an elephant and birds.
f. 39v, Prognostics of the caladrius birds.
f. 39v, Alexander encountering two-headed serpents
f. 39v, Alexander encountering beasts with eight eyes and eights legs.
f. 40r, Alexander receiving tribute from the citizens of Babylon
f. 40r, Alexander (mistakenly represented as a woman) sending letters to Olympias and Aristotle.
f. 40v, Coronation of Alexander.
f. 40v, Alexander consulting an astronomer about a monstrous birth.
f. 41v, Iobas giving Alexander a poison.
f. 41v, Alexander making his will.
f. 43v, Alexander's tomb.
f. 45r, City burnt to avoid capture by Perdiccas.
f. 47r, Alexander on a battlefield.
f. 58r, Miniature in three compartments: the emperor Baldwin and the brothers Nicholas and Marco Polo; the Polo brothers before the patriarch; the Polo brothers sailing for the Black Sea.
f. 59v, The Great Khan giving the Polo brother a golden table..
f. 61r, The Polo brothers before the Great Khan.
f. 64r, The city of Baghdad.
f. 65r, Saracens (with black faces) and Christians.
f. 66v, Return journey of the Magi.
f. 68r, Travellers arriving at Camadi.
f. 70v, The Old Man of the Mountain training assassins.
f. 72v, The river of Badashan.
f. 76r, Idols and people of 'Campision' (Kanau).
f. 77v, Battle of Genghis Khan and Prester John.
f. 78v, Tartars worshiping their god Natigay.
f. 81v, Magicians taking down the body of an executed malefactor to be eaten at Shandu.
f. 83r, Battle of Kublai Khan against his uncle Nayan.
f. 84r, Battle of Kublai Khan against his uncle Nayan.
f. 85r, Death of Nayan.
f. 86r, The Great Khan and his wives at table.
f. 88r, The Great Khan at table.
f. 90r, The Great Khan hunting.
f. 93r, Four of the Great Khan’s armed barons.
f. 95r, The Great Khan dispensing doles of food.
f. 97r, Coronation of the Great Khan’s son Mangalai.
f. 98v, Tibetans wearing skins, and their bamboo-fires.
f. 101r, Killing serpents (crocodiles) in Karajan.
f. 103r, Battle of the Great Khan with the men of Mien.
f. 105r, Gold and silver towers of Mien.
f. 107r, Traitors beheaded by the Khan's orders.
f. 108v, The Great Khan's army invading Manzi.
f. 111r, Mangonel devised by Nicholas Polo, his brother and son, for the siege of Saianfu.
f. 113r, Kinsay, a castle surrounded by water.
f. 115r, The Great Khan receiving the revenue of Kinsay.
f. 117r, Boat with merchandise at 'Caiton' (or. Zayton, probably Siuenchoo).
f. 118r, Monstrous idols of the East.
f. 120v, The city of 'Cianda' (or Chamba).
f. 122r, Spice-trees and treasure-house of Java the Less (Sumatra).
f. 125r, Armies of Maabar.
f. 127v, Pilgrims at the shrine of St Thomas.
f. 132v, Abyssinia.
f. 136r, Miniature in four compartments: four friars, two Dominican and two Franciscan, before the Pope; Jean de Vignay, wearing the habit of the Order of Hospitallers, translating the book; Jean de Vignay presenting the book to the king of France; friars in a ship.
f. 148v, Pope Innocent IV sending a mission of Dominicans and Franciscans.
f. 165v, Jean de Vignay presenting the book to Philip VI of France.
f. 168r, The king of France and crusading knights on board ship.
f. 175r, Two messengers presenting a letter to the king and queen of France.
f. 176v, The king of France giving orders.
f. 178r, The king of France meeting the Byzantine emperor.
f. 185v, The emperor enthroned.
f. 187v, The king of France and crusaders on a ship approaching a fortress manned by the Saracens.
f. 189v, Battle of Christians and Saracens.
f. 194r, The abbot of St Denys sending two armed messengers.
f. 202r, Siege of St Germain l'Aiguillet by Charles of Anjou, king of Naples.
f. 213r, Attack on Carthage from the sea.
f. 216r, Funeral of Jean, count of Nevers.
f. 222v, Homage to king Philip III.
f. 227r, The abbot of Mont Royal receiving the relics of St Louis.
f. 229v, Jean de Vignay witnessing a miracle at St Michael's chapel, Bayeux.
f. 233r, Defeat of the Saracens by Philip III.
f. 238v, Murder of Henry of Almaine.
f. 214v, Marriage of Philip, son of Philip III.
f. 246r, The king of France sending a letter to the king of Spain and the king of Spain receiving the message.
f. 252r, David and Goliath.
f. 263v: Death of Absalom.
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- Western Manuscripts
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- Royal Collection
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- Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X : Royal Manuscripts
Royal MS 19 D I : Roman d'Alexandre en prose and other texts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002105724[1771]/040-002107624
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1 volume
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- Languages:
- French, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1333
- End Date:
- 1345
- Date Range:
- 1333-c 1340
- Era:
- CE
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Materials: Parchment codex.
Dimensions: 425 x 310 mm (text space: 295 x 195 mm).
Foliation: ff. vii + 267 + vi (the unfoliated flyleaves are: 7 modern paper leaves at the beginning and 2 at the end, and 4 medieval parchment leaves at the end).
Collation: i-v8 (ff. 1-40); vi6 (ff. 41-46); vii8 (ff. 47-54); viii2+1 (ff. 55-57); ix-xi8 (ff. 58-81); xii4 (ff. 82-85); xiii-xviii8 (ff. 86-133); xix2 (ff. 134-135); xx-xxii8 (ff. 136-159); xxiii6 (ff. 160-165); xxiv8 (ff. 166-173); xxv4 (ff. 174-177); xxvi-xxix8 (ff. 178-209); xxx2 (ff. 210-211); xxxi-xxxvii8 (ff. 212-267); xxxviii4 (unfoliated parchment flyleaves). Catchwords and bifolium signatures; instructions for rubrics (e.g., f. 168r); a note informing about a number of quires 'xxxvii pestoi' (f. 167v).
Layout: Written in two columns of 46 or 45 lines.
Script: Gothic. According to Rouse 2000, written by 5 scribes (Hand I: quires i-viii; Hand II: quires ix-xii, xvii-xix, xxxvi-xxvii; Hand III to be identified with Jean de Senlis: quires xiii-xvi, xxxi-xxxv; Hand IV: quires xx-xxii, xxiii except f. 165v, xxvi-xxx; Hand V: quires xxiii, f. 165v, xxiv-xxv).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house binding.
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Origin: France (Paris).
Provenance:
Philip VI of Valois (b. 1293, d. 1350), king of France (1328-50), perhaps commissioned by him or for him, after 1333, and around the time of his proposed Crusade, c. 1334-37 (see Rouse 2000, pp. 244-47): three of the eight texts are the unique examples of the French translations by Jean de Vignay (b. 1280, d. c. 1340), a translator working for Philip VI and Jeanne de Bourgogne; one of which, 'Le Directoire a faire le passage de la Terre Sainte', is addressed to the king, 'au tres noble prince / et seigneur mon seigneur phelippe roy de / france lan de n[ost]re seigneur mil ccc xxxii. / et fu translate en francois p[ar] iehan de vi/gnay. Lan mil ccc. xxxiii/ (f. 165v).
The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): perhaps to be identified with 'Le bon roy Alexandre' included in the list of books in the library of Henry VIII, (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland, at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 101; and in the catalogue of 1666 (f. 13v).
Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library.
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P. Meyer, Documents manuscrits de l’ancienne littérature de la France conservés dans les Bibliothèques de la Grande-Bretagne. Rapports à M. le Ministre de l’Instruction Publique, (Extrait des Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires, deuxième série, tome 3-5) (Paris, 1871), pp. 16-30, 69-80.
Samuel Berger, La bible française au moyen âge (Paris: Champion, 1884), p. 391.
H. Omont, 'Les manuscrits français des rois d'Angleterre au château de Richmond', in Etudes romanes dédiés à Gaston Paris (Paris: É. Bouillon, 1891), pp. 1-13 (p. 11).
Campbell Dodgson, 'Alexander's Journey to the Sky: A Woodcut by Schäufelein', Burlington Magazine, 6 (1904-5), pp. 395-401 (p. 396, Pl. 1).
H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), I, pp. 123, 143.
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 339-41.
D. J. A. Ross, 'Methods of Book-Production in a XIVth Century French Miscellany (London, B. L., ms Royal 19. D. I.)', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 6 (1952), 63-75 (pp. 63-71).
D. J. A. Ross, 'Nectanebus in his Palace: A Problem of Alexander Iconography', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 15 (1952) 67-87 (pp. 68-72, fig. 16b).
D. J. A. Ross, Alexander Historiatus: A Guide to Medieval Illustrated Alexander Literature (London: Warburg Institute, 1963), pp. 13, 30, 41, 55, 88 n. 63, 90 n. 124, 97 n. 263, 98 nn. 276 and 279.
D. J. A. Ross, 'Olympias and the Serpent: The Interpretation of a Baalbek Mosaic and the Date of the Illustrated Pseudo-Callisthenes', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 26 (1963) 1-21 (pp. 6, 7, 8, n. 35, figs 1d, e).
Loren MacKinney, Medical Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 5, 2 parts bound together (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965), with Thomas Herndon, Part II, Medical Miniatures in Extant Manuscripts: A Checklist, no. 64.
D. J. A. Ross, Alexander and the Faithless Lady: A Submarine Adventure, An Inaugural lecture delivered at Birkbeck College, London, 7th November 1967 (London: Ruddock and Sons, 1967), p. 8, fig. 4.
Millard Meiss and Sharon Off, 'The Bookkeeping of Robinet d'Estampes and the Chronology of Jean de Berry's Manuscripts', The Art Bulletin, 53 (1971), 225-35 (p. 233).
David J. A. Ross, Studies in the Alexander Romance (London: Pindar, 1985), pp. 173, 175, 181, 259, 317-19, 344, 353, 364.
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, 'Preliminary Marginal Drawings in Medieval Manuscripts', in Artistes, artisans et production artistique au Moyen Age: Colloque international, ed. by. Xavier Barral i Altet, 3 vols (Paris: Picard, 1986-90), III: Fabrication et consommation de l'oeuvre, pp. 307-19 (pp. 312, 318).
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), pp. 60, 68, 185, figs 87, 111.
V. M. Schmidt, A Legend and its Image: The Aerial Flight of Alexander the Great in Medieval Art (Grotingen, 1995), cat. no. 44, pp. 184-85 [exhibition catalogue].
C. W. Dutschke, 'The Truth in the Book: The Marco Polo Texts in Royal 19.D.I and Bodley 264', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits, 52 (1998) 278-99.
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2000), I, pp. 212, 244-47, 250, 254, 380 n. 86, 390 n. 86, 391 n. 105; II, App. 9A.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.91.
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