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The Burgundians Besiege Morat (Murten), 1476.
Diebold Schilling: Official Bernese Chronicle, Volume 3, Page 778.
Diebold Schilling: Amtliche Berner Chronik, Band 3
Manuscript title: Diebold Schilling: Official Bernese Chronicle, Volume 3
Place of origin: Bern
Date of origin: 1478-1483
Medium: Most fine vellum, translucent in some places.
Size: 38 x 27.5 to 28 cm
See also figure 157, Artillery, in Armies of the Middle Ages, volume 1 by Ian Heath, based on 'The Burgundians Besiege Morat (Murten), 1476'. Diebold Schilling the elder: Official Bernese Chronicle, Volume 2, Page 778:
157. A nice study of a Burgundian gun position at the siege of Morat in 1476, from Schilling's 'Amtliche Chronicle'. Note the wooden mantlet, fixed to the brass barrel by pivots at the front and supported by two struts at the back, shown resting on the ground here but located on pins on the sides of the carriage in 156. On the march this mantlet would have been folded down over the gun, thus providing a roof giving some protection against rain and dust. Regarding the fixed hoarding through which the gun is firing, a description of such defences in Christine de Pisan's 'Fais d'Armes' of 1434 indicates that these could be monstrous affairs. Some she describes as 12 feet wide, 30 feet high and 2 feet thick; others are 24 feet high and broad, constructed of boards 5" thick and timbers 18" square and mounted on 5 (!) wheels of elm. Even her 'small' wheeled mantlets are 12 feet wide, 9-10 feet high and 4" thick, each with 'a little wicket open for to shoot a gun when there is the need'.
