The military escort of the three WIse Men. Four mounted soldiers in chainmail armour and tunics, armed with mace and sword, accompany men driving pack animals laden with chests. From an Italian manuscript, Meditations of St Francis Assisi, attributed to Taddeo Gaddi, Bibliotheque Imperiale, 14th century. L'escorte des Rois Mages, Italie, XIVe siecle. Chromolithograph by F. Krause after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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