Burnett, Swan Moses, 1847-1906, Tweedy, John, 1849-1924, former owner, Royal College of Surgeons of England · [New York : D. Appleton] · leaf 3
e mediaeval swords, therefore, Were stout, straight, and wide (hjigs. 20 to 23), and adapted to that kind of work. The hands being c|ad in mail, no at- tempt was made to protect them, and the hilts were plain and simple, except that a groove was sometimes made in the side of the blade to diminish… … of arm (Figs. 24, 21 ) took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies. The blade® were narrow, the hilts had n^erely a single nar- now guard for the 1 ack of the hand, with a broad base to protect the fingers in thrusting and the rhomboidal or triangular section of the blade was altered,…
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