Salvete Omnes,
Book of friends - or more properly Johann Joachim Prack von Asch's liber amicorum was a compilation of entries spanning 1587-1612AD, including the period of the so called Long War (thanks to Bruno Mugnai I have the 2-volume book on the said war ), with the paper coming from the ancient paper bazar in Constantinople. Joachim Prack von Asch from was a Hapsburg diplomat, who traveled between Constantinople, the capital of Ottoman Empire and Bohemia and other lands of his emperor, Rudolph II Hapsburg.
The Book of Friends is available either on the Getty Digital Collections site or on Archive - world's library - and from its pages come this gouache miniature showing a winged hussar killing his lancer adversary, a Turkish Ottoman lancer.
His Ottoman adversary has a shield, tall Ottoman shishak with a wing on its front, he has some armor(perhaps mail), loose-fitting sharavari (Turkish salvar, from Persian sharavara) pants, a kilij sabre and a koncerz (estoc), also a painted lance with lance apple. His gray horse is caparisoned with a long textile fringed shabraque, his bridle is ornate and sumptuous, at the throatlatch there is a long horse bunczuk(Turkish tug),
Valete
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