Illuminating the Roman d'Alexandre: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264: The Manuscript as Monument

by Mark Cruse

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in Tournai, in what is now Belgium, the manuscript preserves the fullest version of the interpolated Old French Roman d'Alexandre (Romance of Alexander the Great), and some of the most vivid illustrations of any medieval romance, ranking amongst the greatest achievements of the illuminator's art,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843842807
• ISBN13: 9781843842804
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.7"