- 10th Century soldier
Figure of Goliath, from a Latin Psalter of the tenth century in the British Museum Additional MS., No. 18,043. The hauberk is coloured blue in the original, apparently indicating chain-mail. The curious combed helmet is of the same hue, clearly implying a defence of iron. - Hildegard receiving the light from Heaven
Hildegard receiving the Light from Heaven (Wiesbaden Codex B, fo. 1 r) - Divining rod
There are many great contentions between miners concerning the forked twig, for some say that it is of the greatest use in discovering veins, and others deny it. Some of those who manipulate and use the twig, first cut a fork from a hazel bush with a knife, for this bush they consider more efficacious than any other for revealing the veins, especially if the hazel bush grows above a vein. Others use a different kind of twig for each metal, when they are seeking to discover the veins, for they employ hazel twigs for veins of silver; ash twigs for copper; pitch pine for lead and especially tin, and rods made of iron and steel for gold. All alike grasp the forks of the twig with their hands, clenching their fists, it being necessary that the clenched fingers should be held toward the sky in order that the twig should be raised at that end where the two branches meet. Then they wander hither and thither at random through mountainous regions. It is said that the moment they place their feet on a vein the twig immediately turns and twists, and so by its action discloses the vein; when they move their feet again and go away from that spot the twig becomes once more immobile. - Vena profunda
- venae dilatatae
- vena cumulata
- John Gutenberg
Tthorwalden's statue of John Gutenberg - Sallad with cover
- Brass of an unknown knight
- Padded 'harnische-kappe' and helm showing the attachment of the cap, after Dürer
- From Romance of Alexander, Bib. Nat., Paris, circ. 1240
- Coif of Mail
- Arming a knight for combat in the lists
- The Workshop of Conrad Seusenhofer
- The Barendyne Helm
- The Fogge Helm
- The Brocas Helm
- The Westminster Helm
- Saint George
- Cuissard for the off hock
- Harnischmeister Albrecht, 1480
- Horse Armour, sixteenth century
- Sixteenth-century Suit of Plate
- Brass of Sir John de Creke
- From the 'Armourers Album'
- Knight arming
- Cuirass
- Church of St. Vital, at Ravenna. Byzantine style