Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre

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Оригинал взят у ЖЖ user="kardiologn" в Миниатюры Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre

Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with horse-headed men

Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre)

Origin France, Central (Paris)

Date c. 1420

Detail of a miniature of Albanians presenting Alexander with a dog, and the dog fighting an elephant and a lion

Detail of a miniature of the meeting between Alexander and the Amazons


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with dragons


Detail of a miniature of Alexander the Great slaying other extraordinary creatures (dragons?)

Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with white lions


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with boars and many-handed savages


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with a three-horned beast and other strange animals


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with a hippopotamus-like beast


Detail of a miniature of Alexander driving off elephants with pigs and musical instruments


Detail of a miniature of Alexander encountering strange women of the forest


Detail of a miniature of Alexander talking to the strange women of the forest


Detail of a miniature of Alexander encountering a naked and houseless tribe (the gymnosophists)


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with giants


Detail of a miniature of Alexander burning a wild man


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle against dragons with emeralds in their foreheads


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle against wild bulls


Detail of a miniature of Alexander, in a cage, being carried aloft by griffins


Detail of a miniature of Alexander lowered into the sea in a cask, along with a cat and a cock, at the beginning of chapter 65


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with sword-horned men.


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with sheep-horned dragons


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with one-eyed giants (cyclops)


Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with headless men with faces on their torsos (blemmyae)

Detail of a miniature of Alexander's battle with lion-like beasts

Detail of a miniature of the burial of Bucephalus


Detail of a miniature of Alexander presented with white elephants, at the beginning of chapter 73


Detail of a miniature of a battle with two-headed dragons

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