The
first four are from the Encyclopaedia San-Thsai-Thou-hoei (Paris
Library), the last from Amyot, vol. viii.
Figs. 6, 7, 8 are SARACEN, 6 and 7 are taken from the work of Reinaud
and Fave, Du Feu Gregeois, and by them from the Arabic MS. of Hassan al
Raumah (Arab Anc. Fonds, No. 1127). Fig. 8 is from Lord Munster's
Arabic Catalogue of Military Works, and by him from a MS. of
Rashiduddin's History.
The remainder are EUROPEAN. Fig. 9 is from Pertz, Scriptores, vol.
xviii., and by him from a figure of the Siege of Arbicella, 1227, in a
MS. of Genoese Annals (No. 773, Supp. Lat. of Bib. Imp.). Fig. 10
from Shaw's Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, vol. i., No.
21, after B. Mus. MS. Reg. 16, G. vi. Fig. 11 from Perts as above,
under A.D. 1182. Fig. 12, from Valturius de Re Militari, Verona, 1483.
Figs. 13 and 14 from the Poliorceticon of Justus Lipsius. Fig. 15 is
after the Bodleian MS. of the Romance of Alexander (A.D. 1338), but is
taken from the Gentleman's Magazine, 3rd ser. vol. vii. p. 467. Fig. 16
from Lacroix's Art au Moyen Age, after a miniature of 13th cent. in the
Paris Library. Figs. 17 and 18 from the Emperor Napoleon's Etudes de
l'Artillerie, and by him taken from the MS. of Paulus Santinus (Lat.
MS. 7329 in Paris Library). Fig.
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