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Wider Wargaming => Resources => Resources - Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: Druzhina on 10 September 2015, 02:23:20 PM

Title: German soldiers in the Admont Bible, Salzburg, c.1140
Post by: Druzhina on 10 September 2015, 02:23:20 PM
German soldiers in the Admont (or Gebhard) Bible, Salzburg, 12th century (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien. Cod. ser. nov. 2701) (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/12/Admont_Bible.htm)
Joshua is given a banner / Taking of Jericho (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/12/Admont_Bible-f84r.htm)
Defeat of the Midianites by Gideon (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/12/Admont_Bible-f94v.htm)
German peasants with sickles, in Boaz and Ruth (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/12/Admont_Bible-f105v.htm)
Battle of Mount Gilboa / King Saul falls on his sword (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/12/Admont_Bible-f124r.htm)
(http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/ah223/druzhina3/12/th/Admont_Bible-f124r_th.jpg)

There doesn't seem to be much support for the idea that the Admont Bible portrays Hungarians.

Druzhina
12th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/12C.htm)