Breydenbach's Peregrinationes in Terram Sanctam

p52 Bernhard von Breydenbach and his journey to the Holy Land 1483-4 : a bibliography (1911)

by Hugh Davies

Crusaders at Damietta, 1522

		Turks

French Gensdarmes	A detail of the French 'Aventuriers'	Swiss Pikemen

From the 1522 edition of Peregrinationes, in French, translated by Nicole Le Huen. Paris [Higman or Couteau ?] for Fr. Regnault [the younger] 20 Mar. 1522 [-3]

... the French army with the infantry composed of "auēturíes" and "Suíſſes" facing the Saracens: Jerusalem in background. Compare M. le Noir's copy of this cut in his edition of Mamerot, Passaiges, 1518 : (reproduced in Murray Catalogue of French Books, p. 374).

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