Date | Description | Source | Reference |
1496 A.D. | Seven bell tents in the upper left corner of the wood cut print. Some roof edge decoration evident. Ball apexes surmounted by poles and flags. | “The Turk’s floating bridge breaks adrift and disintegrates, preventing
their assault on St. Nicholas Tower, Rhodes, 1480. ‘Turris divi Nicolai:
et Ecclefia Sancri Antono.’ Museum of the Order of St. John.”
According to Bradbury in it is the attack on the tower of St.Nicholas, Rhodes, 1480. From Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio, 1496, by Guilielmus Caoursin. Museum of the Order of St.John. According to Billings the woodcut is housed at the Museum of the Order of St John, Clerkenwell. |
Brice, M., Forts and Fortresses, London, 1990, p. 87.
Bradbury, J., The Medieval Siege, Great Britain, 1992, p. 230. Billings, M., The Crusades, Five Centuries of Holy Wars, New York, 1996, p. 190. |
See also;
1480 A.D. (The Turks, having landed on Rhodes, attack from land and sea)
1490 A.D. (Guillaume Caoursin, Siege of Rhodes, Descriptio Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis)
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