Armour & Weapons
Forfatter: Charles Ffoulkes
År: 1909
Forlag: At The Clarendon Press
Sted: Oxford
Sider: 112
UDK: 623 Ffou
With A Preface By Viscount Dillon, V.P.S.A. Curator Of The Tower Armouries
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THE TRANSITION PERIOD
CHAP. II
without exposing his arm or body to attack. In the Inventory of
Louis Hutin are mentioned ‘ iii ecus pains des armes le Roy, et un
acier which shows that the shield was sometimes made of steel,
though usually it was fashioned of wood and faced with leather, or
of cuirbouilli. In a transcript of Vegecius (Brit. Mus. Roy. MS. 18.
A. xii) the young knight is advised to have ‘ a shelde of twigges
sumewhat rounde The shield of the Black Prince at Canterbury
is pointed at the lower edge, and is made of wood faced with
leather, on which are set out the Royal arms in gesso-duro or plaster
relief.