Not a portrait

Ivan Asen

Life dates unknown

Where you meet Ivan Asen

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

Scene 3 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

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

Scene 1 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

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

Scene 6 · 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 (7)

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
Иван Божилов Фамилията на Асеневци (1186–1460). Генеалогия и просопография, I: Асеневци в България Българска академия на науките; online transcription История на света · 1994

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Unspecified · CC0 · British Library via Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Binding of the royal Gospel book. Illustration to the passage mentioning Ivan Asen.

Full attribution

The surviving upper binding cover. British Library, Add MS 39627; via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. Processed image.