The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 116
steel or iron arranged like AAWS AXD ARMOUR. V fishes scales on a stronp^ piece of leatlier, and slitclied or fixed with wire. Adecree of Peter IT., Duke of Ihitlany, issued in HOG, ordered the ntibk-s toequip themselves as archers in hri^^andines, if they knew how to use arrows;but otherwise, to… … Fig. 56.—Convex Armour of the Fifteenth Century, said to be that of Maximilian. (Artillery Museum, Paris.) The coiistilUer was a foot-soldier, or a horseman, whose duty it was to act as aservant to the nobleman, and to carry the coustiUe, a long slender sword, tri-angular or square, apparently…
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