Not a portrait

Alexander the Good

† 1432

Where you meet Alexander the Good

A note in the book says that the Moldavian ruler Ivan Alexander redeemed it from pledge.

Scene 6 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

The manuscript was made in 1355–1356 for Ivan Alexander.

Scene 1 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

Ivan Alexander stands on the right-hand leaf of the family portrait.

Scene 3 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

Panitza Library, American University in Bulgaria Special Collection: The Four Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander. AUBG LibGuides AUBG LibGuides
Simeon (scribe); anonymous medieval illuminators; British Library (custodian) Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, Add MS 39627 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
Scot McKendrick The Gospels of Czar Ivan Alexander Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557), ed. Helen C. Evans. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven/London: Yale University Press · 2004 · 56

All sources (8)

Sts Cyril and Methodius National Library, Bulgaria; British Library, UK The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander PDF UNESCO, International Memory of the World Register, revised nomination · 2016 · 8 pp.
UNESCO Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander Memory of the World, register entry · 2017
Lilyana Yordanova The Gospels Manuscript of Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria Mapping Eastern Europe, eds Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan
Cristian Nicolae Daniel The Political and Confessional Landscape in Alexander the Good’s Moldavia PDF Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, vol. 12 · 2006
University of Michigan, Deep Blue repository Appendix 1: Chronology of Rulers, Moldavian Princes PDF University of Michigan dissertation appendix

Not a portrait

Unknown fresco painter · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Fresco with him and his family. Later depiction, 16th century; full scene.

Full attribution

Unknown fresco painter; reproduction: Nicolae Iorga, 1930 / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain