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MS. Laud Misc. 751

Summary Catalogue no.: 1526

Contents

Quintus Curtius, Historia Alexandri Magni (tr. by Vasque de Lucène, 1468)
Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

By the Master of the Chronicle of England, and others. Pächt and Alexander i. 357, pls. XXVIII-XXIX:

Fine miniatures.

Fine borders.

Fine initials.

Binding

Medieval binding.

History

Origin: c. 1470–1480 ; Flemish

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 529–30
Quarto Catalogue, p. 585
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 65

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (43 images from 35mm slides)

Microfilm

Microfilm available in the open shelf collections in the Weston Library (R. Films 101)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add binding information from Quarto Catalogue.