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 139
pports tothe feet. The several parts of the armour being splendidly ornamented, itfollowed that the saddles, which also were exposed to view, were no moreneglected than other ornaments of the horse. Engraved and chased, theywere also gilt and painted, and helped to distinguish, by their devices,the… … Fig. 8o.—The Caparison of the Horse of Isabella the Catholic. (Communicated b}- Z^I. Ach. Jubinal.) They made their aj^pearance in the earliest days of the Merovingian dynasty;and if we accept the German etpnology which the learned have offered{strehen, to support ones self), the name and the…
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