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Alexander Romance
Not on view
The Alexander Romance by Pseudo-Callisthenes recounts the history of Alexander the Great and was probably translated from Greek into Armenian around the fifth century. This manuscript of the Alexander Romance was copied in 1536 in Varag, east of Lake Van. On the left, Bucephalus, Alexander’s celebrated horse, appears as a fantastical composite animal with an eagle’s head—an exact rendering of the composite horse found in the model book from Lake Van.
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