Showing posts with label Roman d'Alexandre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roman d'Alexandre. Show all posts

Friday, 12 May 2017

Roman d'Alexandre en prose (BL Royal MS 19 D I)

Meeting of Alexander and Olympias, f. 14r.

Colloquial name(s): Roman d'Alexandre en prose and other texts
Official name(s): British Library, Royal MS 19 D I

Date: 1333-c. 1340 (source)
Origin: Paris, France (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

Thursday, 29 October 2015

The Romance of Alexander (MS. Bodl. 264)

Cassamus and his chess-players, f. 128v.

Colloquial name(s): The Romance of Alexander, The Roman d'Alexandre
Official name(s): Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. 264

Date: 1338-1344 (source) with two sections added c. 1400 (source)
Origin: Tournai, Flanders (source); Flanders with two sections added later in England (source)

Online facsimile available via: LUNA (high-quality, zoomable facsimiles of the majority of the illustrations) and  The Bodleian Library (much poorer quality, non-zoomable facsimile of the complete manuscript)