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23rd April 2012, 06:28 PM
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We are looking forward to your contributions!!!
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28th April 2012, 04:00 PM
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14th and 15th C. Crossbows Employed on Horseback!
Such pieces of period artwork are quite rare to detect.
The first instance dated 1461, the lower two ca. 1340, all from Swiss manuscripts. At bottom a 1480's illustration from the Wolfegg Hausbuch, fol. 51v-52r, showing a crossbow in its quiver suspended from the saddle. m Last edited by Matchlock; 28th April 2012 at 04:49 PM. |
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28th April 2012, 04:52 PM
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The only other period illustration, apart from the Wolfegg Hausbuch, I have come across depicting a crossbow stored away in its quiver, 2nd half 15th c.
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28th April 2012, 05:24 PM
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Two more colored drawings from the Wolfegg Hausbuch, ca. 1480, of crossbows on horseback, the one on the left in the first picture stored away in its quiver.
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28th April 2012, 05:59 PM
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It is only with some reluctance that I post this as it was obviously redrawn in 1898 after an early-16th c. original depiction which is not verified. So we do not know how exact the drawing actually is.
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28th April 2012, 06:40 PM
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Finally two characteristic illustrations from Hans Talhoffer's Fencing Books, vol. 2, dated 1459, fol. 194 and 195.
Please note that, like in most period artwork on 'military' crossbows and guns, the tiller is depicted undyed and unvarnished - the cheapest variant. m Last edited by Matchlock; 28th April 2012 at 07:28 PM. |
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29th April 2012, 06:36 PM
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Gothic crossbows and accouterments in the Landesmuseum Zürich, from the 1928 catalog by Gessler.
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