The archaeological album; or, Museum of national antiquities (1845)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877, Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William), 1814-1866 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 177
127 ON THE EARLY USE OF FIRE-ARMS. castle of Holy Island, in the county of Durham, for the year 1446, the following items occur : — " Bought ij. hand-gunnes de ere .... iiijs Item, gonepowder iiijs." The material of these hand-guns appears to be brass ; and the price, two shillings each, would seem… … took the rude form of a modern musket. In a treatise on warlike inventions, entitled De re militari, by an Italian named R. Valturius, the editio princeps of which was printed at Verona in 1472, we find a number of bold woodcuts of military engines. A description of this work will be found in Mr.…
Great Britain -- Antiquities
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