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Medieval Drawings/Photos References
Druzhina:
There aren't many early illustrations of Sultanate of Delhi soldiers. The earliest may be of about 1450 from a shahnama:
Rustam Kills the Turanian Hero Alkus with his Lance
Gushtasp Slays the Dragon
Rustam Grieving for His Son
Siyavash faces Afrasiyab across the Jihun River
Siyavash is Pulled from His Bed and Killed
Druzhina
sites of wargaming interest
Al_Mansur:
Thanks Druzhina. Unfortunately this site only show musicians, no warriors.
This is all the military illuminations of Las Cantigas that I've found:
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Druzhina:
--- Quote from: Al_Mansur on February 21, 2012, 12:34:10 AM ---Thanks Druzhina. Unfortunately this site only show musicians, no warriors.
This is all the military illuminations of Las Cantigas that I've found:
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Al_Mansur, Very Interesting. Do you have captions for these (in Spanish or otherwise)?
I will keep an eye out for more military pictures.
Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
Al_Mansur:
No, but I can risk myself to make some, at least tell who are North African, Christians or Andalusians :wink:
Druzhina:
Military Illustrations from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, c.1284
Full Pages from the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Including larger pictures:
(click to show/hide)Cantiga 12 featuring a mob with swords
Cantiga 22 featuring a unarmoured spanish spearmen
Cantiga 28 featuring a siege of Constantinople
Cantiga 33 featuring ships and boats
Cantiga 35a & 35b featuring ships & soldiers in galeases
Cantiga 46 Moors, conversion to christianity
Cantiga 63 featuring soldiers in zig-zag livery
Cantiga 95a featuring mouros in galleys
Cantiga 95b featuring moors in galleys and unarmoured spearmen
Cantiga 99 featuring moorish troops
Cantiga 119 featuring spearmen, demons & angels
Cantiga 126 featuring crossbows
Cantiga 165a featuring muslim cavalry, & armoured infantry
Cantiga 165b featuring muslim cavalry, mounted drummers & trumpeters
Cantiga 181 A Moroccan army is defeated by another
Cantiga 185 featuring unarmoured spearmen, plotting & immolation
Cantiga 187a featuring Granadine cavalry
Cantiga 187b featuring Granadine cavalry & infantry
Pages from: codex Florencia Ms Banco Rari 20
Cantiga CSM 205 featuring Military Order troops
Cantiga CSM 207 featuring a knight in armour
Cantiga CSM 235 featuring Castilian cavalry
Cantiga CSM 245 featuring bandits
Cantiga CSM 256 featuring Granadine crossbowmen
Cantiga CSM 299 featuring the Order of the Star
Extra Individual Panels
(click to show/hide)Panel 5, Cantiga 5 - The Roman emperor crusading.
Panel 6, Cantiga 12 - The Jews are killed.
Panel 2, Cantiga 13 - A thief named Elbo was caught stealing and the magistrate ordered him to be hanged.
Panel 2, Cantiga 19 - The Three Knights.
Panel 1, Cantiga 44 - A nobleman from Aragón lost his goshawk while hunting.
Panel 1, Cantiga 51 - The Count of Poitiers and his men laid siege to a castle in Orleans.
Panels 1, 2 & 4, Cantiga 83 - The Prisoner who was freed from the Moors.
Panel 1, Cantiga 106 - Two squires attempted a robbery.
Panel 2, Cantiga 114 - One day, her son’s enemies beat him viciously, tearing him to pieces.
Panel 1, Cantiga 126 - A man in Elche was shot in the face by an arrow.
Panel 6, Cantiga 135 - The Marriage Ordained by the Virgin.
Panel 4, Cantiga 148 - A knight, wearing such a garment, was attacked by his enemies.
Panel 5, Cantiga 148 - His squires raised the alarm and people came and discovered him alive.
Panel 4, Cantiga 175 - A heretic, who owned the inn, planted a silver cup in the son’s sack and accused him of theft.
Panel 5, Cantiga 175 - On order of the magistrate, the son was arrested.
Panel 2, Cantiga 184 - Her husband got into a brawl with some other men who wounded him in the chest.
Panel 2, Cantiga 191 - A poor squire was in charge of a castle called Ródenas in the district of Albarracín.
Panel 2, Cantiga 234 - The King was beset with troubles.
Panel 3, Page 1, Cantiga 245 - They abused him and held him in the castle of Neiva.
Panel 1, Cantiga CSM 271 - A ship, owned by the king of Alenquer, was stuck fast in the Morabe River near Azemmour.
Panel 5, Cantiga CSM 275 - The Rabid Knights Hospitaller.
Panel 1, Cantiga CSM 408 - A squire, a man of noble birth, was badly wounded by an arrow while fighting in Lombardy.
Druzhina
Illustrations of Soldiers
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