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Additional authors

1. Alexandre, de Bernay, active 12th century
2. Jacques de Longuyon, active 1290-1312.
3. Grise, Jehan de, active 1344.
4. James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936.
5. Brisebarre, Jean, active 1327.
6. Jean le Névelon, active 13th century
7. Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Bodley 264.
8. John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection

Description

1. 3 p. l., 50 p., 1 l., facsimile: 3-208 numb. l. 4 col. pl. incl. front. (facsims.); 45 cm.

Uniform title

1. Alexander the Great (Romances, etc.)

Alternative title

1. Episode de Floridas et Dauris; ou, Le duc Melchis.
2. Episode du voyage d'Alexandre au Paradis.

Subject

1. Manuscripts > Facsimiles
2. Illumination of books and manuscripts > Specimens

Call number

1. NAK+ (Lambert le Tort. Romance of Alexander)

Note

1. 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 Bernay, 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 vengeance du boin roy Alixandre, by Jean le Nevelons.
2. The manuscript, in the Picard dialect, was finished in 1338, and the beautiful illuminations by Jehan de Grise, in 1344.

Author

1. Lambert le Tort, active 12th century.

Title

1. The romance of Alexander: a collotype facsimile of ms. Bodley 264, with an introduction by M. R. James.

Imprint

1. Oxford, Clarendon press, 1933.

Added author

1. Alexandre, de Bernay, active 12th century.
2. Jacques de Longuyon, active 1290-1312.
3. Grise, Jehan de, active 1344. Illustrator
4. James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes), 1862-1936.
5. Brisebarre, Jean, active 1327. Restor du paon.
6. Jean le Névelon, active 13th century. Venjance Alixandre.
7. Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Bodley 264.
8. John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Added title

1. Alexander the Great (Romances, etc.)
2. Episode de Floridas et Dauris; ou, Le duc Melchis.
3. Episode du voyage d'Alexandre au Paradis.

LCCN

1. 34014759

Research call number

1. NAK+ (Lambert le Tort. Romance of Alexander)