Two mounted knights in armor in a tournament duel with cudgels. The cudgel is attached by a chain to the knight's breastplate. The rider on the left wears plain pale blue colors and a helmet adorned with a blue figure of a man on top, while the rider on the right has black lions rampant on a yellow ground on his horse caparison and a lion sitting between two horns on his helmet. From a 16th century manuscript Turnierbuch compiled for Jeremias Schemel. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle A


Two mounted knights in armor in a tournament duel with cudgels. The cudgel is attached by a chain to the knight's breastplate. The rider on the left wears plain pale blue colors and a helmet adorned with a blue figure of a man on top, while the rider on the right has black lions rampant on a yellow ground on his horse caparison and a lion sitting between two horns on his helmet. From a 16th century manuscript Turnierbuch compiled for Jeremias Schemel. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1802.


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