Bericht und Ordnung der Gebiss a. 1578 - manuscript

 Salvete Omnes,

at the Austrian National Library they have this manuscript - by our prolific ecuyer Georg Engelhard Lohneysen.
Dated 1578AD it is beautifully written and illustrated - the men leading their mounts - done in gouache

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Hungarian, Ottoman or Polish noble

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mule or large donkey with a docked tail

the printed version of 1588  is condensed as per images  but equally pleasing in its beauty, but without the plates with horses and mule being led. I do not read old German so to me these plates are it has to be - on Fb there is a group talking and writing about these old German equestrian manuscripts.

enjoy
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Gyula Andrassy equestrian monument in Budapest

 Salvete Omnes,

Halzbant at the throat of Andrassy horse

we have not seen equestrian monuments for a while.
If you ever visit Budapest there is a number of beautiful equestrian monuments in the Hungarian capital.

Old national Hungarian costume and Hungarian horse tack

One of them is the monumental equestrian composition to count Guyla Andrassy,  one of the most important Hungarian leaders of last 200 years.
 Count Andrassy, born in 1823,  served as a military officer  during the Hungarian Revolution 1848-49, but did not participate in the battle and capitulation of the  Vilagos (August 13, 1849) and the capitulation of the Hungarian army commanded by general Gorgey ( general Klapka  commanded the last serious Hungarian army elements that surrendered at the fortress of Komarom on October 7, 1849). Andrassy had been sent as an envoy to the Ottoman court at  Constantinople (today Istanbul). Thus he avoided being executed by the Hapsburgs, for he was sentenced in absentia to death and his portrait-effigy was hung in 1851.
Upon the amnesty to all participants of the Revolution and due to the political winds of change in the Hapsburg Empire he returned to Hungary and became a politician within the realm. Upon the creation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867, Andrassy became the Prime Minister of Hungary within the dual-state. His later political life, since 1871 when be became the foreign minister of the empire, was full of political upheavals and diplomatic 'warfare' eg -  he changed the course of the Austrian politics from friendly towards Russian Empire to openly courting the newly established German empire and hostility against Russian politics in the Balkans and Austro-Hungarian Slavic provinces (former &present day Poland, western present day Ukraine, and present day Slovakia and Czechia)  He died in 1893.

In 1904 Hungarian capital saw the unveiling in front of the Parliament  the equestrian monument to Andrassy by then famous sculptor Gorgey Zala. 

After 1945 and the occupation of Hungary by the Red Army, the Communists had the monument removed and melted. In 2016 Hungarian capital once again saw the monumental sculpture recasted and erected in the Parliament.  

a very large shabraq

perhaps a Shagya Arabian steed 

all images Wiki Commons 

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Polish-Hungarian Friendship day

 Salvete Omnes,

today Poland and Hungary celebrate the  official  Hungarian-Polish Friendship Day (since 2007 in both nations)

 

Polish 'tribe' and the Magyar one have been friends for more than a thousand years, exchanging kings and queens, princes and princesses, giving aid and helping hand, and refuge to the exiled ones.

Old Poles took or interpreted costumes, weapons, and horse tack from the Hungarians. The most famous Polish cavalry - winged hussars - have Hungarian origin and provenance (Serbian links notwithstanding) .

This long history produced a saying in both countries, both mirror one another  -

Polish-
Polak, Węgier - dwa bratanki,

i do szabli, i do szklanki, 

oba zuchy, oba żwawi,

 niech im Pan Bóg błogosławi.

***
Hungarian  - 

Lengyel, magyar - két jó barát,

 Együtt harcol s issza borát, 

Vitéz s bátor mindkettője, 

Áldás szálljon mindkettőre.

 ***

 the English translation, of my own,  could be as follows:

Pole and Magyar, two sworn brothers

for a sabre and for a cup

Both are valiant, both are lively

May the Lord's blessing be upon them

***

 

In Polish tradition graves and tombstones play great cultural role and significance. Monument to Hungarian soldiers who died fighting the Germans and their allies (various Nazi units of the ex-Soviet citizens) during the Warsaw Uprising 1944

I wish another 1000 years of friendship to both ... 

ps

there is a mural in Budapest - two oaks of friendship 

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