Libro de Alexandre

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Libro de Alexandre is a medieval Spanish epic poem about Alexander the Great written between 1178 and c. 1250 in the mester de clerecia. It is largely based on the Alexandreis of Walter of Chatillon, but also contains many fantastical elements common to the Alexander romance. It consists of 2,675 stanzas of cuaderna via and 10,700 lines.The Libro is preserved in two manuscripts, called P and O, neither of which appears to be an original. There are as well three fragments preserved in separate manuscripts. Manuscript O is the earlier, copied around 1300, and includes 2,510 stanzas of cuaderna via and two epistles. It was once owned by the Duke of Osuna (whence O) and was known to the Marques de Santillana.