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France: Alexander's Battle against Dragons with Emeralds in their Foreheads, Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre (The Book and True History of Good King Alexander), Master of the Royal Alexander, Paris, c. 1420

France: Alexander's Battle against Dragons with Emeralds in their Foreheads, <i>Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre</i> (The Book and True History of Good King Alexander), Master of the Royal Alexander, Paris, c. 1420

Illuminated by the Master of the Royal Alexander, with the text in Old French, Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre is based on the Historia Alexandri Magni de prelii, written in the 10th century by the Neopolitan archpriest Leo.

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