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King Charles V and Solomon. King Charles V, in chivalric costume of a crusader knight, kneels before Solomon. He wears a tunic over chainmail armour, sallet hemet, sword and shield. Depicted in French fashions, later 14th century. From an illuminated initial D in a manuscript Bible by Maitre Honore for King Charles V, Biblia Latina, MS 590, in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal, Charles le Sage. France XIVe Siecle. Chromolithograph by Giare 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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