History of Alexander the Great by Scot McKendrick (1996, Hardcover)

Description: Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum. 1996. [unstated], large folio, pp. xi, 105, 43cm. Bound in quarter cloth with green cloth on the spine and back board. Front board is lettered in gilt on green paper the is ornately patterned. Top left corner is faded on the portion that, when the book is in its included slipcase, is exposed. Slipcase is green with an illustrated paste down and gilt lettering on the spine. Still holding strong, but is rubbed with some marks. Inside text is clean and bright. Profusely illustrated as discussion of Alexander & the manuscript is had. One section includes 14 plates of the manuscript. Appendices as well. What a wonderful way to experience this manuscript if you are unable to view the original in the museum. "The History of Alexander the Great reproduces in color all fourteen miniatures in one of the finest illuminated manuscripts of secular text produced in southern Netherlands during the time of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. The volume that contains these splendid miniatures is now among the treasures of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The miniatures illustrate important episodes from the short life of the famous Macedonian conqueror of half the known world, Alexander the Great. The text that they illustrate is one of the principal literary sources of our knowledge of Alexander, the Historiae Alexandra Magni attributed to the first-century Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus. In 1468, the Portuguese and Burgundian humanist Vasco da Lucena translated Curtius's Historiae into French as Les fais d'Alexandre le grant (The Deeds of Alexander the Great), and it is in this translation that Curtius's history became widely available in the late medieval Northern Europe." Its larger size will require additional shipping costs.

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