I'm interested in the following. In the Maciejowski Bible there are many depictions of cleaverlike swords. I really like the form of these weapons, but hadn't seem them any where else. That was until I was looking through the 'Romance de Alexander' illustrated roughly hundred years later. I kind off fell in love with this last one and ordered a replica. It is still a work in progress thou.
I know this doesn't make all that much of historical evidence for the existence of such swords or what ever they are. I was wondering if anyone had more information or the name what these weapons are called?
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Two depictions in maciejowski Bible
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The one from 'the 'Romance the Alexander'. This part was probably drawn around 1340.
I really would appreciate any information