Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers from the bottom margins of the
Romance of Alexander
The legend of Alexander the Great
Flanders, 1338-44AD. Bodleian Library, Ms. Bod. 264, Oxford
Lance training, baggage and siege engines - espringal & trebuchet.
 82v, lower margin. Lance training  83v, left of lower margin. Baggage wagon  102r, lower margin. Baggage train  201r, lower margin. Espringal and counter-weight trebuchet The espringal is referenced on p.6, French Armies of the Hundred Years War by David Nicolle Men operating an espringal in a Flemish manuscript made between 1338 and 1344. This siege engine, shown with a wheeled frame carriage, was powered by twisted skeins of horsehair, and shot massive arrows - though not as large as this picture suggests. (Bodleian Library, Ms. Bod. 264, f.201r, Oxford) |
