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Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre
Collection of chronicles of England by Jean of Wavrin
Copy from North-East France (Lille?), c. 1470-1480

British Library MS. Royal 14 E IV
f.59v The siege of Troyes


Detail of a miniature of a capture of a bastion at Troyes, at the beginning of chapter 21 of book 1.

Back to the Recueil des croniques d’Engleterre, Collection of chronicles of England, by Jean of Wavrin. Copy from North-East France (Lille?), c. 1470-1480



The cannon is referenced as ARTILLERY Fig. 152 in Armies of the Middle Ages, Volume 1 by Ian Heath:
"148. 15th century English bombard from a ms. of c. 1475. Guns of this type remained in use alongside cannon like those in figures 154-157 until about the end of the century, being depicted side by side, for example, in a near-contemporary wood-carving of the siege of Granada in 1492."