Lucas Mayer, The Comet seen in Transylvania above the Turkish Command Post.

 
Date Description Source Reference
1595 A.D. One bell tent and three pavilions. 

At each end of the roof are pointed apexes which rise above the roof ridge, along the roof ridge is scalloped decoration, below which is an inscription (F.SIBENBIRGE), the valance is decorated by a multi-lobed sculloping, the walls are white. 

Bell tent, ball apex and apron, dark roof, light walls. 

Pavilion, alternate shaded roof panels, serrated valance. 

Pavilion, scalloped valance.

 Lucas Mayer, Active Nuremberg, 1566 - 1605. 
No. 17. The Comet seen in Transylvania, 5 October 1595, above the Turkish Command Post. London (1673-12-13-1).		 Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume 2, New York, 1975, p. 718.

Other works by Lucas Mayer:

 Siege of Bonn

Assignation of King Henry III of France by a Dominican monk at St.Cloud

News from Neuheuss; The Turkish Danger

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