The romance of Alexander : a collotype facsimile of MS. Bodley 264

Author(s)

• Lambert le Tort, 12th cent
• Alexandre de Bernay, 12th cent
• Alexander, the Great B.C
• Jacques de Longuyon, fl.
• Grise, Jehan de, fl. 1344
• James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)
• Bodleian Library. Bodley 264

Bibliographic Information

The romance of Alexander : a collotype facsimile of MS. Bodley 264

with an introduction by M. R. James

Clarendon Press, 1933

Note

Includes index

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 Berney, 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 vengance du boin roy Alexandre, by Jean le Nevelons. the manuscript, in the Picard dialect, was finished in 1338, and the beautiful illuminations by Jehan de Grise, in 1344

Details

• NCID: BA62179529
• LCCN: 34014759
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engfre
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: 50 p., 208 leaves, [4] leaves of col. plates
• Size: 46 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens
  • LCSH : Manuscripts, French -- Facsimiles