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Anfang, Vrsprug und Herkomen des Thurniers inn Teutscher Nation : wieuil Thurnier biss vff den letztenn zu Wormbs : auch wie vnnd an welchen Orten die gehalten vñ durch was Fürsten, Grauen, Herrn, Ritter vñ vom Adel, sie iederzeit besucht worden sindt ..

Rüxner, Georg · 1532 · [Simmern] : Dis Büch isst gedruckt in Verlegung Hieronimi Rodlers, Fürstlichen Secretarien zu Siemern · 234 pictures

Georg Rüxner's chronicle of German tournaments from their supposed origin to the last held at Worms, printed in 1532 at Simmern by Hieronymus Rodler for a courtly and noble readership. The 235 pictures are small woodcut shields, each a heavy-outlined escutcheon filled with one clear charge or partition — crenellated bars, quarterings, a double-headed eagle over a saltire, a rampant lion — usable as silhouette emblems, badge shapes, and coarse-line ornament.

Tournaments, Medieval · Festivals · Heraldry · Knights and knighthood

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