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| Date | Description | Source | Reference |
| 1547 A.D. | Sixty six bell tents, twenty five pavilions, four marquees and fourty
wedge tents.
A very detailed wood cut showing an extraordinary number and variety of tents. Of special note are the number of multi-pole pavilions (three to five poles) and the long marquees ( greater than five poles). A number of the marques have one side held up as extra roofing, one of these marques show people sitting down to a meal. Ball apexes, ridge line and valance decoration, and guy ropes are all depicted. Emperor Charles compound is depicted with a crenellated canvas wall around it, with four bell tents surrounding a marquee. One small bell tent is even shown within a crenellated palisade. |
Master M.S. , Active in Wittenburg and Nuremberg, 1530 - 1572.
No.8. Bivouac of Emperor Charles V near Wittenberg, 1547. Stockholm |
Strauss, W.L., The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1550 - 1600, Volume
3, New York, 1975, p. 1284.
Geisberg, M., The German Single-leaf Woodcut: 1500 - 1550, Volume 3, New York, 1974, p. 880 - 886. |
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