Spanish Arms and Armour Being a Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Armoury of Madrid

According to the note in the _Cronicon of Valladolid_, this sword was sent to Enrique IV. of Castile by Calixtus III., to encourage him to fight unremittingly against the Moors....

There is an extremely interesting manuscript in the British Museum called the _Comentario Apocaliptica_, said to have been executed between 1089 and 1109. It is frequently refer...

The body-armour (C11) may have been brought to Spain by Philip. It is the work of a Milanese armourer, Bernardino Cantoni (who lived in 1492), and consists of a brigantine with...

The first and fourth figures display the blazoned surcoat, similar to those shown on the seals of Charles V. as Count of Flanders. Attached to the fourth figure is a curious bur...

Charles V.’s son and successor, Philip II., was more a statesman than a soldier. In his youth, however, remarks the learned compiler of the Catalogue, he was accounted a clever...

The fourteenth century witnessed a notable transformation in military equipment.[C] The introduction of firearms and the marked improvement in weapons of offence led to the almo...

The prominence which Spain has enjoyed from the earliest times as a manufactory of armour and a school of arms is attributable, in the first instance, to its mineralogical richn...

A new and important series of volumes, dealing with Spain in its various aspects, its history, its cities and monuments. Each volume will be complete in itself in an uniform bin...

DEDICATED WITH PROFOUND RESPECT AND ESTEEM TO HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARIA CRISTINA OF SPAIN WHO SO WORTHILY AND FOR SO LONG MAINTAINED THOSE GLORIOUS TRADITIONS OF SPANISH GREATNESS...

Heads of Spanish Lances and Pikes, 15th to 17th centuries. ‘The Pike I would have, if it might be, of Spanish Ash, and between 20 and 22 feet long.’--Sutcliffe, _Practice of Arm...

The harness, A291-294 (plate 54), seems to have been made in Milan by Lucio Picinino, and was presented by the Duke of Savoy to Philip III. “Although it belongs to the decadent...

[A] It is a work ascribed to the twelfth century, but resembles more a work of the tenth. There is internal evidence to show that the costumes were actually those of the Kings o...