The History of Alexander the Great

by Scot McKendrick

This book reproduces in color all fourteen images from a fifteenth-century manuscript, now part of the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. One of the finest illuminated secular manuscripts produced in the Netherlands during the period, the manuscript features miniatures that illustrate important episodes from the short life of the legendary Macedonian general. Titled Les fais d'Alexandre le grant, the manuscript is itself a translation of a text attributed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892363711
• ISBN13: 9780892363711
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 8.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 13.8" x 19.6"