Jean de Warvin, 'Chroniques d’ Angleterre'
Date Description Source Reference
1470’s Sixteen white bell tents, black bell apex with gold dot, blue line decoration on roof and on valence, three point guy rope attachment from under or just below valence, no decoration evident on walls, guy rope pegs visible.  “173. Jean de Warvin: Chroniques d’ Angleterre’, The camp of Brutus on the River Loire, Flanders, Bruges, 1470’s,...Royal MS 15E. iv, f.36.” British Library.  Backhouse, J., The Illuminated Page, Ten centuries of manuscript painting in the British Library, London, 1997, p. 195, figure 173.
Three bell tents ( one light blue and two pink in colour) and one white pavilion. 

The blue bell tent has black line decoration on roof and a blue ball apex. All three bell tents roofs overlap the tent walls. 

The pavilion has got similar line decoration as the blue bell tent but the lines are in blue, the roof also is decorated with heraldic device consisting of a shield with a red cross on a white background.

 “The mining of Riolle Castle: sappers digging in a gallery under the castle wall (Chroniques d’ Angleterre by Jean de Wawrin, fifteenth century).” Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 82.
Four bell tents and two pavilions, decorated roofs. 1. Blue pavilion with fleur du lis on roof. 2. Orange with gold swirls on roof. 3. Top of brown bell tent visible. 4. Blue tent with gold detail in top right. “Mortangne on the Gironde near Bordeaux, held by the English, was besieged at the end of 1377 by.Owen of Wales.” British Library, London. 

According Koch this ms is from the “Chroniques d’Angleterre, late fifteenth century”.

 Brooke, C. et al, The Flowering of the Middle Ages, London, 1985, p. 113. 

Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 158 - 159.
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