Not a portrait

monk Simeon

Life dates unknown

Where you meet monk Simeon

The scribe was the monk Simeon. His colophon near the end records the book’s completion in 1356.

Scene 2 · The Gospels of Ivan Alexander

By the seventeenth century the manuscript was at St Paul’s monastery on Mount Athos.

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 (6)

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

Not a portrait

Copied between 1355 and 1356 by the monk Simeon for Tsar Ivan Alexander · Public domain · British Library via Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Opening of Mark’s Gospel — f.88r. He copied the text of the royal Gospel book.

Full attribution

Opening of Mark’s Gospel — f.88r. British Library, Add MS 39627; via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain. Processed image.