Two knights in plate armor on horseback fighting a duel with nooses in a tourney. The knight on the right has thrown his noose around his opponent's neck. Their swords lie on the ground. The knight on the black charger wears pink skirt and ribbons from his horned helmet. The knight at right has a purple skirt and purple ribbons from his helmet. Copied from a woodcut by Jost Amman in Ritterliche Reutter Kunst, 1584. 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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