Titus Livy, “Ab urbe condita”
 
Date Description Source Reference
15th century.  Three bell tents and two wedge tents. 

Light brown bell tent, gold ‘onion’ shaped apex with apron, gold scalloping around valance, a thick pole can be seen through the open square topped door. 

Darker brown bell tent, similar to the light brown tent but with a much smaller ball apex. 

Pink bell tent, same as the darker brown bell tent. 

The wedge tents are the same colour as the light brown bell tent, the supporting timber can be seen (the ‘Y’ upright supporting the cross beam). 

Titus Livy, “Ab urbe condita”, (C15). 

“A large scene which takes up half the rich frontispiece; in the lower half part of the armorial bearing of the bishop Agnellus is to be seen. The scene is of a military encampment with four people in the foreground, two wearing crowns and two laurel wreaths; perhaps they represent Masinissa of Numidia, Scipio the African, Eumene II of Pergamon and Scipio the Asian. 

p. 111. p.31 Reg Lat 719, f.2. 

Morello, G., Ed., Illustration, Ten centuries of illustration from the most precious medieval and Renaissance codices in existence, Rome, 1996, p. 31.

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