Salve,
I would like to point your attention to this Polish codex of AD 1505, when the Krakow (Carcovia, Cracow) City Notary
Baltazar Behem made a gift to this royal city council in a form of a handwritten
codex he wrote himself on parchment, with 27 miniatures he had commissioned an unknown Master of the Behem Codex (looking a bit similar to the Hieronymus Bosch style) to paint.
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| Behem's own writing and painted illuminations |
I 'corralled' several images associated with horses - blacksmiths, saddle makers, bridle-makers ets, also weapons, and perhaps an early image off a hussar, this being a soldier with a white plume on his high hat looking like a Serbian mercenary or a royal Tatar?
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| on the right a saddle makers guild with a typical saddle |
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| and a saddle tree |
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| blacksmith and a horse in treatment covered with a very interesting horse blanket |
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| saddled horse, riding costume and the bridle-maker guild artisan |
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| Kolebka or well-to-do traveling wagon of the XVI c., presenting the carriage and wheelwright guilds(dueling here quite viciously with clubs) |
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| on the left an early hussar or a royal Tatar carrying a bow, amidst the bowyer guild artisans and their patrons |
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| among the weapons shown in this shop there are sabers- szable - in their early form |
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| Gothic armor still popular in the Crown of the Polish Kingdom |
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| Burghers as royal city militia |
the entire digitalized Behem Codex can be had from the
Jagiellonian Library
enjoy
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A saddler from Poland
Marcin Ruda has been recreating medieval and early modern European saddles, but also many historic Western (American) saddles etc.
