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The Goddesschess Museum
Art and Artifact - Page 1
Romance of Alexander
From a French Manuscript
(Forwarded to Goddesschess by Lawrence Totaro)
Creator: - Various authors including Lambert le Tort, Alexandre de Bernai (de Paris), and others.
Title: Romance of Alexander.
Folio #: fol. 121v
Work Type: Manuscript
Date: 1338-1344
Material: parchment
Measurements: 415 x 295 mm
School: Flemish
Made in: Tournai|
Description: A game of chess and conversation with a king.
This section of the manuscript was written by the scribe in Picardian French, the dialect of Flanders, in 1338 and by the Tournai illuminator Jehan de Grise and his atelier in 1344. The text of this first part of the manuscript is the French version which gained the greater popularity and it has accretions to the main story by several authors. Fols 3r-21v: first branch of the Romance (not the oldest portion, but prefixed later to the Romance). Fols 22r-46v: second branch of the Romance, composed by Eustache, rehandled and worked into the Romance by Alexandre de Bernai. Fols 47r-208r: third part of the Romance, by Lambert le Tort; the oldest and most voluminous part of the Romance. The miniatures are illustrating legends of Alexander the Great, with marginal scenes also providing direct illustration of, or comment on the text by different artists. Fols 21r and 43r blank. See also MS. Bodl. 264, pt II and III for later additions. Leaf-size: 415 x 295 mm.
Repository: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford