The romance of Alexander
Subtitle: a collotype facsimile of ms. Bodley 264
By: with an introduction by M. R. James.
Contributors: Alexandre de Bernay, 12th cent.; Jacques de Longuyon, fl. 1290-1312.; Grise, Jehan de, fl. 1344, illus.; James, M. R. 1862-1936, ed.; Bodleian Library.
Publisher: Clarendon press
Published: 1933
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: fre
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens, reproductions, etc.; Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.
Other titles: Alexander the Great (Romances, etc.)
Notes: Reproduces only the first part of the manuscript (fol. 1-208) containing the French metrical Roman d'Alexandre, the oldest and most extensive part by Lambert le Tort, with additions by Alexandre de Bernay, who probably revised the whole.  Includes the following interpolations: Li fuerres de Gadres, by one Eustache, rewritten by Alexandre de Bernay; Le duc Melchis, author unknown; Les voeux du paon, by Jacques de Longuyon; Restor du paon, by Jean Brisebare; Alexander's Voyage au Paradis, author unknown; La vengeance du boin roy Alixandre, by Jean le Nevelons.
The manuscript, in the Picard dialect, was finished in 1338, and the beautiful illuminations by Jehan de Grise, in 1344.