Illustration from
Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris
Matthaei Paris Chronica Maiora II
Battle between the Crusaders and Khorezmians, 1244 (La Forbie)
Battle, before Babylon. Balcanifer flees with standard of the Temple.
Chronica Maiora II, Saint Albans, England, ca. 1240–53. Folio 171V, MS 16II, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Figure 182, p289 The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora by Suzanne Lewis, 1987.
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