The Berlin Alexander Romance is one of the most beautiful manuscripts of the Middle Ages. This volume presents this unique and magnificent work with 100 gold-decorated miniatures and lavish book decorations comprehensively in text and illustrations. Full-page illustrations enchant with mythical creatures, exotic peoples and fighting knights. The introduction provides information on historical, art-historical and philological contexts.
The old French picture cycle from the 13th century was probably commissioned for a young nobleman to instruct him in the virtues of chivalry. In adventurous episodes, Alexander the Great is shown as a ruler with an unbridled thirst for knowledge, but also as an unscrupulous master of life and death. Angelica Rieger accompanies each miniature with detailed descriptions. The history of the manuscript's transmission is explained just as skilfully as codicology and palaeography.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Rieger, Angelica
Title
Der Alexanderroman. Ein Ritterroman über Alexander den Großen
Details
142 colour illustrations, large format. 199 pages.
State
new
Herder Verlag GmbH Hermann-Herder-Str. 4 79104 Freiburg Deutschland
