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Marco Polo, Li Livres du Graunt Caam
The Books of the Grand Khan
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, folio 255r
The full image of a siege of a castle in Li Livres du Graunt Caam by Marco Polo. Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264 - folio 255r
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264
Description
(fols. 3r-208r) The Romance of Alexander in French verse, with miniatures illustrating legends of Alexander the Great and with marginal scenes of everyday life, by the Flemish illuminator Jehan de Grise and his workshop, 1338-44;
with two sections added in England c. 1400,
(fols. 209r-215v, with fol. 1r) Alexander and Dindimus (Alexander Fragment B) in Middle English verse, with coarser miniatures,
and (fols. 218r- 71v, with fol. 2v) Marco Polo, Li Livres du Graunt Caam, in French prose, with miniatures by Johannes and his school.
Source: Bodleian Library
An assault on a castle in Li Livres du Graunt Caam by Marco Polo. Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264 - folio 222r
See also figure 146, Artillery, in Armies of the Middle Ages, volume 1 by Ian Heath, based on a siege of a castle in Li Livres du Graunt Caam by Marco Polo - folio 255r:
146. From an edition of the 'Books of Graunt Caam' by Marco Polo of c. 1400, this gun is shown in use against town walls alongside a trebuchet. This is the earliest known picture portraying trunnions.
Other 14th Century Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers
