Costumes and armour of German knights, 13th century

Costumes of German knights in battle A, B, and allegorical illustration of Venus ordering blacksmith Vulcan to make a helmet for Aeneas C, 1260-1300. Helmets with heraldic crests D-G. From an illumimated manuscript in the national library, Berlin. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by R. Horrmann. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

Alteneck Artworks Chivalry Codex Hefner Iillustration Jakob Joust Klingen Manesse Minstrel Walther

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