Date | Description | Source | Reference |
13th century. | Twelve bell tents, two with domed roofs.
Top left. One bell tent, odd shaped apex decoration, domed roof, diagonal strips on roof, walls are decorated with a bird motif, pole visible through door, no guy ropes visible. Top right. Front bell tent has a bird shaped motif on the apex, alternate dark
and light shade roof sections, crenellated roof edge decoration, the sides
are held up high and wide revealing the pole, include a bulbous section
near the roof edge, possibly the pole join.
Bottom left. Front bell tent, ball apex, dark roof and walls, the sides are held p high and wide revealing the pole, other items in the tent (eg. chests, baskets) and two guys playing chess in from of onlookers. Up to seven light coloured bell tents stand in the rear, all with ball apexes. Bottom right. Possibly three bell tents, or the two tents in front are part of the same pavilion (similar to those in the Maciejowsky Bible) then there are only two tents. Pavilion, ball apex, diagonal strip crosses left conical roof while lines on the other top follow the same pattern as the left hand bell tent in the top right corner. The third tent has a ball apex and the roof is dark in shade. |
“Le Chevalier du Cygne”, Lauros-Giraudon.
“From a thirteenth century ms of the Chevalier au Cygne, an early French epic (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris... MS Fr. 12558, fol. 143v).” |
Runciman, S., The First Crusade, London, 1980, p. 103.
Minney, R.J., The Tower of London, London, 1971, p. 27. |
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