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DOI article:Clephan, Robert Coltman: The Wallace Collection of Arms and Armour, [2]
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.37714#0204
Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde.
III. Band.
188
be made up of two suits similar in character and
period, for the schemes of ornamentation on the
various pieces differ materially, and are clearly not
the work of the same artist. The enrichment con-
sists of bands slig'htly sunk and etched, with folia-
tions scrolls and trophies on a dotted ground.
Number 529 is a cap-a-pie harness banded
with allegorical figures, masks, etc., interspersed
with foliations. The pointed tuilles are hinged to
the lowest tace, and are embossed with a large
middle of the sixteenth Century, certainly, was
merely a sport or trial of skill and endurance.
The voluminous records of the Saxon Court at
which jousting was constantly practised, do not
afford a single instance of any duel in the sense
of a serious combat of any sort during the sixteenth
Century. One of the forms of jousting has been
lightly touched upon in Part I, that of Das deutsche
Stechen, the German joust; jousting with lances
tipped with a coronal, without a line of planking
Fig. 5-
fleur-de-lis. The coudes are preposterously large;
and the square-toed sollerets are embossed with a
similar figure to that on the tuilles. The globose
breastplate is stamped with the mark of Lorenz
Colman, and the Augsburg fir-cone.
Numbers 484 (Fig. 5); 495 (Fig. 6); 505. The
number of German forms ofjousting is very confusing,
for the differences between many of them is very slight -
incleed; and even these details were modified as
time wore on. It would seem that most of the
princes of the great Christian countries of Europe
devoted a great deal of their time and attention
to jousting in its various' forms; which after the
Fig. 6.
between the combatants to give them direction.
These suits were made for other and later forms;
and excepting for the shield of No. 484; the heavy
mainefer or bridle gauntlet (steife Hentze) on No. 495 ;
and the absence of sabatons; and of the reinforcing
piece for the bend of the left arm, though the
coude is holed for it, on No. 505 are almost exactly
alike.
The shield of No. 484 is somewhat concave;
ribbed crosswise and bends outwards — it is
of the kind used in Realgestech or Plankengestech.
The crossribbing was to afford a grip for the lance-
coronal on impact, in order to prevent its glancing
III. Band.
188
be made up of two suits similar in character and
period, for the schemes of ornamentation on the
various pieces differ materially, and are clearly not
the work of the same artist. The enrichment con-
sists of bands slig'htly sunk and etched, with folia-
tions scrolls and trophies on a dotted ground.
Number 529 is a cap-a-pie harness banded
with allegorical figures, masks, etc., interspersed
with foliations. The pointed tuilles are hinged to
the lowest tace, and are embossed with a large
middle of the sixteenth Century, certainly, was
merely a sport or trial of skill and endurance.
The voluminous records of the Saxon Court at
which jousting was constantly practised, do not
afford a single instance of any duel in the sense
of a serious combat of any sort during the sixteenth
Century. One of the forms of jousting has been
lightly touched upon in Part I, that of Das deutsche
Stechen, the German joust; jousting with lances
tipped with a coronal, without a line of planking
Fig. 5-
fleur-de-lis. The coudes are preposterously large;
and the square-toed sollerets are embossed with a
similar figure to that on the tuilles. The globose
breastplate is stamped with the mark of Lorenz
Colman, and the Augsburg fir-cone.
Numbers 484 (Fig. 5); 495 (Fig. 6); 505. The
number of German forms ofjousting is very confusing,
for the differences between many of them is very slight -
incleed; and even these details were modified as
time wore on. It would seem that most of the
princes of the great Christian countries of Europe
devoted a great deal of their time and attention
to jousting in its various' forms; which after the
Fig. 6.
between the combatants to give them direction.
These suits were made for other and later forms;
and excepting for the shield of No. 484; the heavy
mainefer or bridle gauntlet (steife Hentze) on No. 495 ;
and the absence of sabatons; and of the reinforcing
piece for the bend of the left arm, though the
coude is holed for it, on No. 505 are almost exactly
alike.
The shield of No. 484 is somewhat concave;
ribbed crosswise and bends outwards — it is
of the kind used in Realgestech or Plankengestech.
The crossribbing was to afford a grip for the lance-
coronal on impact, in order to prevent its glancing