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'Alexander encountering blemmyae...', illustration from the 'Shrewsbury Talbot Book of Romances', c.1445 (ink & colour...

'Alexander encountering blemmyae...', illustration from the 'Shrewsbury Talbot Book of Romances', c.1445 (ink
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'Alexander encountering blemmyae...', illustration from the 'Shrewsbury Talbot Book of Romances', c.1445 (ink & colour on vellum)
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French School, (15th century) / French
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British Library, London, UK
Medium
vellum
Date
c. 1445 AD (C15th AD)
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Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a King (Basileus) of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon[a] and a member of the Argead dynasty.

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From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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Alexander the Great (356 - 323 B.C.) / Antiquity / monster / fantastic creature / snake / reptile / animal / grotesque / elephants / birds / creatures / men / great / burial / horse-like / shoulders / people / fantastical / caladrius / manuscript / medieval / ill / mouth / monstrous / beasts / creature / headless / illumination / eyes / grotesque / chest / monsters / blemmyes / grotesques / mythical / blemmyae / akephaloi / blemmye

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