Royal MS. 20 B. XX: Alexander the Great and the Voice of the Master. Interpretation and Astrology in a Medieval Manuscript

Royal MS. 20 B. XX is a small but lavishly illuminated copy of the French prose Alexander romance made in the 1420s. Its iconography is remarkable in the medieval tradition for a number of scenes in which the illuminator has concentrated on themes of divination by means of astrology and portents. The interpretation of signs and symbols in this Roman d’Alexandre en prose is both an element in the narrative and an invitation to the reader to decipher the inner meaning of text and image