Della Cavalleria Das ist - 1624AD

 Salvete Omnes,

Bavarian Digital Library 1624 copy

we will just link the grand equestrian work of German Renaissance - Della Cavalleria Das ist from 1624 - by Georg Engelhard 
Löhneysen. There exists a bit smaller, per number of pages, manuscript with hand-drawn plates from 1578, held by the Austrian National Library. 

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Ecuyer and landowner  by the end of the 1500, Goerog Engelhard served  various dukes of the Welf family, from Saxony to  Brunswick.
Eventually  he bought a printing press , installed it in his estates and started producing his own works through 1625, when they got destroyed during the 30 Years War.
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and from  his very book come these two plates with  six richly presented saddled war horse of Hungarian, Ottoman Turkish and Polish types.

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more Lohneysen to come

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