R.B. Cunninghame Graham, Horse of the Conquest (1930) - illustrations

 Salvete Omnes 

perusing the great Archive World Library I finally came across the 1930 edition of R.B. Cunninghame Graham's 'The Horses of  the Conquest' (University of Oklahoma edition) 

with J. Craig Sheppard's illustrations, which I 'corralled'

for your pleasure:

Enjoy

Valete

MS 35 Getty Mus illuminations

 Salvete Omnes, 

a quick entry this Thursday  - the Iran-Us& Israel war uncertainty persists, now the ceasefire is to expire on Sunday. Hope peace prevails. I have no hopes on any quick ending of the Ukraine war. 

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 two very interesting illuminations done in a Byzantine style but way to the west,  in the late 1200s early 1300s Sicilian Kingdom  milieu. 

The Kingdom became the part of the House of Aragon realms as the Reino de Trinacria, starting with the Italian Vespers of 1282AD and the war that followed between Pedro III de Aragon, and then his sons Alfonso III de Aragon, Jaime II de Aragon & Federico II de Sicilia  and Charles I d'Anjou, his successors Charles of Naples & Roberto il Saggio and their allies, the French kings Philip the Bold & Philip the Fair, Papal forces (the Pope even proclaimed the crusade against the Aragonese) etc. The war  took away the  Christian forces from aiding the last defenders of the Crusader Kingdom in the Holy Land. 

The two miniatures from the illuminated manuscript Book of Old Testament Prophets  held at the Getty Museum. 

Museum description 

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Death of Sennacherib, king of Assyria Museum description 

Interesting article on the power of the barons within the XIV century Sicily.

Some of the royal protagonists of the war in Sicily and Spain - 

The peace of Caltabellotta, ending the war, also left unemployed Roger de Flor and the  mercenary soldiers of the Catalan Companies aka Almogavars, and this very successful mercenary commander took his  6,500 Almogavars into the war in Anatolia and Greece, where the  Byzantine Empire fought against the growing power of the Ottoman Turks. But that is another story.

Valete

Bodleian Ms. Burma Aa. 5

 Salvete Omnes, 

About 5 minutes ago I learned that is is taco Tuesday &  POTUS Trump extended the ceasefire indefinitely. So no resumption of open warfare, but the naval blockade is still on.

So let me post this unusual set of equestrian and military images related to the XIX century British wars in East Asia, this time against Burma.
Perusing the wiki commons I came across a hundred hand-painted plates from Royal Burma (Myanmar) circa 1897,  the the collection of  the Digital Bodleian.

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some military  images from the three Anglo-Burmese Wars - First, Second and Third of the XIX century. 

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Valete