Horse Armor via Armourer and His Craft

Salve,
and here we have the second day of Christmas.
or as the British call it - the Boxing Day.

A short entry, between the delicious lunch and eventual and equally delicious dinner.
Many times I mentioned armored horses - dextrarius opertus [singular] -but today I would like to use the available diagram from an archived book on the World Library aka Archive.
 Charles John Ffoulkes, British historian and the curator at the Royal Armouries, wrote several important works on the arms and armor of the Medieval and Early Modern European history (here  his books available via archive org library) during the early XX century.
  So in his quite famous and enduring work - Armourer and His Craft - he wrote a chapter devoted to the task of proofing the armor made by the historic armorers.
  and from the same book comes multi-language diagram showing horse armor [including the armored saddle elements] and its parts:

1.chanfron

2.peytral

3.crinet

4.pommel

5.cantel(cantle)

6.crupper

7.tail-guard

8.flanchard

 

Valete

Louis de Gaya and Nicolas Guerard

Salve,

I have been reading some books by a British historian Charles John Ffoulkes, and thus I came across a XVII century work by a French soldier[1],  and writer Louis de  Gaya,  titled Traite des Armes, published during the reign of Louis XIV in 1678.

Ffoulkes edited the 1911 publication of the historic treatise, and provided quite interesting introduction and overview of this Louis XIV's era work.
The book has some charming and quite interesting illustrations by a French engraver Nicolas Guerard and thus I am sharing them with you.

Also, I find these depictions of the period militaries interesting, albeit strangely our Polish military is curiously unhorsed and lance-less...
Polish, Hungarian and Turkish troops according to de Gaya 

 French, Spanish, English and of the 'Germanies'

enjoy
[1] captain of the Louis XIV Champagne Regiment,