| Date | Description | Source | Reference |
| 1525 A.D. | Four bell tents and one pavilion.
White bell tent, apex obscured , alternate blue and gold swirls descend from the apex, two point guy rope attachment from above the roof edge, roof edge decoration consists of alternative small then large rectangular shapes with curved bottoms and blue edging, the large shapes also have golden tassel attached, blue lines run down the wall from the roof, the flap on the right is hung over the nearest guy rope. The next three white bell tents have two tailed pennants flying above golden ball apexes, above roofs with blue lines delineation the roof panels, only the tent in the fore of these show a partial view of the wall decorated in blue line spirals. The white pavilion in the background only shows one end decoration with pennant, a thick blue line along the roof ridge, along with blue line, circle and spiral decoration on the roof. |
“207. John Lydgate: ‘The Siege of Thebes, and Other Works.’ - Jocasta’s embassy to Adrastus, England, by a Flemish artist c. 1525, in a manuscript written c. 1465, Royal MS 15E. iv, f.36.” British Library. | Backhouse, J., The Illuminated Page, Ten centuries of manuscript painting in the British Library, London, 1997, p. 229, figure 207. |
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John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes.
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