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Anon., Amtlicher Luzerner Chronik, ‘The Battle of Grandson’

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1513 A.D.

Black and white. Eight bell tents, square banners, apexes and cones. The shape of the tents indicate that the number of panels are few and larger than usual, producing a hexagonal rather than a circular shape.

p. X. Detail of Figure 214. Colour.

Front and left white bell tents, panels outlined in orangy/red, front tent with ‘X’ in the same colour on each panel, front tent show the top of the wall panel as if only attached to roof at certain points (or scalloping). Both tents show a heraldic design in the orange/red colour on the front panel.

Single point guy rope attachment on bell tent on right.

Fig. 214. Anon., ‘The Battle of Grandson’, 1476. Miniature, 1513, Luzerner Zentralbibliothek, Amtlicher Luzerner Chronik, ff. 99v - 100. -

Painting of the Battle of Arbedo from the Schilling Lucerne Chronicle...(Zentralbibliothek, Lucerne).

Hale, J.R., Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance, London, 1990, p. 170.

Miller, D., The Swiss at War 1300 - 1500, Osprey Publishing, 1979, p. 13.

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