Author: Arquebusier
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Bestiary Imagery in Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth Century
Adam S. Cohen Abstract: In medieval bestiaries, knowledge about animals and their behavior is regularly given a Christian moral interpretation. This article explores the use of imagery related to the bestiary tradition in three Hebrew books made around the year 1300, focusing especially on the richly decorated Rothschild Pentateuch (Los Angeles, Getty Museum MS 116).…
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Biblical Creatures The Animal as an Object of Interpretation in Pre-Modern Christian and Jewish Hermeneutic Traditions
Interfaces – A Journal of Medieval European Literature Volume 5, 2018
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Hermann Historica – The Karsten Klingbeil Collection
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ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR Tuesday December 13, 2011 – 3.00 pm THE KARSTEN KLINGBEIL COLLECTION THOSE WHO HAVE MET KARSTEN KLINGBEIL WILL AGREE THAT HE CAN BE RATED AMONGST THE FOREMOST COLLECTOR PERSONALITIES OF OUR TIMES, ALWAYS PURSUING HIS INTERESTS WITH GREAT VIGOUR AND PASSION. An artist at heart, he nonetheless felt compelled towards a…
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A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles (Review)
Robert B. GordonTechnology and Culture, Volume 48, Number 2, April 2007, pp. 457-458 (Review)
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A particular wheellock pistol in Turin
Marco Morin The weapon appears also interesting from a technical point of view since it has aparticularly safety system, used only rarely and, to our knowledge, only on pistols ofGerman origin.
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A CURSED, ABOMINABLE DEVICE?
The True, Shared History of Knights and Firearms Dr. Tobias Capwell FSA, Curator of Arms and Armour • The Wallace Collection
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ATF – National Firearms Act Handbook
PREFACE This handbook is primarily for the use of persons in the business of importing, manufacturing, and dealing in firearms defined by the National Firearms Act (NFA) or persons intending to go into an NFA firearms business. It should also be helpful to collectors of NFA firearms and other persons having questions about the application…
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Material Culture and Military History: Test-Firing Early Modern Small Arms
Peter Krenn – Steiermarkisches Landesmuseum JahanneumPaul Kalaus – Austrian ArmyBert Hall – University of Toronto Abstract This article is in two parts. Part 1 summarizes the results of a series of test-firings of genuine early modem small arms carried out in 1988-89 by staff of the Landeszeughaus (Provincial Armoury) in Graz, Austria — a division…