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Gabriele A. Pini




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PostPosted: Wed 31 Jul, 2013 12:13 am    Post subject: Weapons and armour from the S. Abbondio church - 1350         Reply with quote

This may interest someone: the apse from the church of s. Abbondio (Assertor et Defensor incarnationis Filii Dei) in Como, Italy. The church was built (as we can see it today) in 1040, but the pictures are dated 1340-1360.



I found the shields particularly interesting, for the forms and the clearly visibles straps pins.

Here http://www.flickriver.com/photos/renzodionigi...584588220/ you can find a complete set.
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Neil Melville




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PostPosted: Wed 31 Jul, 2013 3:52 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Thanks for posting these photos of the frescoes. Brilliant, and what about those weird nasals on some of the helmets?
I have been to Como but did not know about this church unfortunately. Grazie mille, Gabriele.
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PostPosted: Wed 31 Jul, 2013 7:52 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Very nice. That one helmet just left of center sure looks a great deal like a 15th century sallet!

Thanks for the pictures!

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Mart Shearer




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PostPosted: Thu 01 Aug, 2013 3:48 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

The level of detail in the paintings is quite useful We recently had a discussion on Armour Archive concerning the plates, and I noticed the small chains retaining the shoulder hinge pins. Even the lining holes for the bascinet are clear.


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Mikko Kuusirati




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PostPosted: Thu 01 Aug, 2013 5:37 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Wow! That's really impressive detail. And many of these are in remarkably good condition, too!

The bit that draws my attention in the posted picture is the combination of short mail sleeves (over a longer-sleeved padded garment) and long mail gauntlets with what looks like drawstrings at the cuffs, although none of them are tightened so they might just be ornamental...

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Mart Shearer




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PostPosted: Thu 01 Aug, 2013 6:51 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I don't think they're drawstrings for tightening the cuff, so much as a method to tie them together and hang them off the sword when not in use. Of course they could perform both functions.
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Mart Shearer




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PostPosted: Thu 01 Aug, 2013 7:10 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Randall Moffett wrote:
Very nice. That one helmet just left of center sure looks a great deal like a 15th century sallet!

Thanks for the pictures!

RPM


Compare to these other 14th century Italian examples.
http://armourinart.com/58/302/
http://armourinart.com/58/71/
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/3952/10867/

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Gabriele A. Pini




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PostPosted: Fri 02 Aug, 2013 4:51 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

From a pure "amateur" (it is not even my period of interest) point I appreciate this mace:



Has anyone see one like? It's possible that is a serragente (sarge) mace, more an authority symbol than a proper weapon?
The metal is golden in color, perhaps bronze or brass?
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Mikko Kuusirati




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PostPosted: Fri 02 Aug, 2013 6:49 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Gabriele A. Pini wrote:
From a pure "amateur" (it is not even my period of interest) point I appreciate this mace:

(snip)

Has anyone see one like? It's possible that is a serragente (sarge) mace, more an authority symbol than a proper weapon?
The metal is golden in color, perhaps bronze or brass?

Well, it's a flanged mace with a wooden haft. The flanged form seems to have been much more popular in the 15th-16th Century (and at that point most maces had metal hafts, too), to the point that I'm having trouble finding images of 14th Century specimens... you can see some similar ones from that time here, though.

The color probably does represent bronze or brass (or latten), although if it's a sign of rank it could also be gilded.

Note that the guy behind him, to our left, is also holding a very similar weapon (out of frame except for the grip), and there's another one, this one in bare iron, in the first picture posted to this thread (the Kiss of Judas scene; you can see the mace right behind the head of the guy losing his ear, held by the dude with the weird gilded nasal guard on his helmet).

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Mart Shearer




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PostPosted: Fri 02 Aug, 2013 9:37 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

There are some 14th century iron flanged maces of similar form here:
http://otlichnik.tripod.com/medmace3.html

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