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| Later Middle Ages. | A tent of indeterminate design (could be a wall or bell tent), pink in colour, blue round shields adorn the roof edge and the apex, a pink fringe adorns the fabric edge between each of the shields, no pole, guy ropes or pegs are evident. | “Plate 8, Ilias Ambrosiana, pict. XLVII,
‘Achilles’.‘Achilles, barefooted, stands in front of his rose coloured tent and offers a libation upon a flaming altar...” Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Cod. f. 205 Inf. |
Weitzmann, K., Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, London, 1977, p. 46. |
| Two tents, in the same indeterminate design as above, the larger of the two tents has green shields, while the smaller of the two has brown ones. | Plate 10 Ilias Ambrosiana, pict. XXXVII, ‘Nestor and Patroclus’.
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Cod. f. 205 Inf. |
Weitzmann, K., Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, London, 1977, p. 50. |
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