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The Alexandreis, the life of Alexander the Great in verse, was composed by Walter of Châtillon around the year 1182 at the court of William, Archbishop of Rheims, to whom the poem is dedicated and whose name (GUILLERMUS) is spelled out in acronym by the first initial of each book (on fol. 19 of the present manuscript, Book 3, which should begin with the letter [I], is mistakenly given the initial [Q]). The Alexandreis was a widely-used school-text, a use evidenced in the present volume by the extensive marginal and interlinear glossing.
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t722md22d
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Alexandreis
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t722md22d
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title
Alexandreis
description
The Alexandreis, the life of Alexander the Great in verse, was composed by Walter of Châtillon around the year 1182 at the court of William, Archbishop of Rheims, to whom the poem is dedicated and whose name (GUILLERMUS) is spelled out in acronym by the first initial of each book (on fol. 19 of the present manuscript, Book 3, which should begin with the letter [I], is mistakenly given the initial [Q]). The Alexandreis was a widely-used school-text, a use evidenced in the present volume by the extensive marginal and interlinear glossing.
date
["[ca. 1250]"]
year
1250
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
Latin
identifierLocal
06_01_018646
creators
Walter, of Châtillon, active 1170-1180
Louis II, Count of Flanders, 1330-1384
Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
Eustace, F. H.
Holmes, John, 1800-1854
Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
Sotheby's (Firm)
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
subjects
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.--Romances
Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.
subjectsGeographic
Europe
France
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Manuscripts
Books
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Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Gothic scripts
Sprinkled paper bindings
Inscriptions
Autographs
Embossed stamps
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Dates (Provenance)
Poetry
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Text
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France
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100 leaves : parchment ; 275 x 185 (190 x 55) mm bound to 289 x 193 mm
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sf268508b
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np193j758
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46
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2
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Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in France in the middle of the 13th-century. Blank spaces left for glossing, especially in Book 4 (fol. 31-34, glossing IV:181-212); spaces left unfilled on fol. 34v-42; large section cut out of fol. 35, no text loss. Marginal and interlinear glossing throughout, in several hands dating from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries.
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[France]
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t722md22d
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document
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