Manuscript obout 15 century firearms

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Originally Posted by cannonmn

Wow, that's quite something, like a primer on siege warfare, making gunpowder, various kinds of firearms, incendiary weapons, petards, scaling ladders, etc. etc. plus some pages I can't connect with the other subjects. One is a woman washing another woman's hair, I think. What I can't figure out is where this has been throughout history until, what, 1950? I'll have to check "Quellen zur Geschichte der Feuerwaffen" as some of the devices look somewhat familiar. But "Quellen..." dates from late 19th C., well before this codex was generally known, I think?

There's a very complex (for the time) twin-cylinder water-powered pulverizing mill shown, which I would not have thought would have been availabile at that time.

As I said there are many similar books from the early to the late 1400's, and one author copied from the other.

Best,
m