Handbook Of Arms And Armor European And Oriental Including The William H. Riggs Collection

316 Pages·1915·5.46 MB·English

by  Bashford Dean

CORNELL
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
WOODFORD PATTERSON
ENDOWMENT
HANDBOOK OF THE
COLLECTION OF ARMS
AND ARMOR

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
O F A R T
HANDBOOK
OF
ARMS AND ARMOR
EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL
INCLUDING
THE WILLIAM RIGGS
H.
COLLECTION
BY
BASHFORD DEAN
NEW YORK
MCMXV
JANUARY,
J>.y-
K
A'
A,
COPYRIGHT
BY
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
JANUARY, 1915
Armures, perle des collections, orgueil des
musees, reve caresse souvent envain par tant
d'amateurs. . . . Rien nest plus rare qu'une
armure ancienne.
Paul Eudel, 1907

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
List of Illustrations ix
Handbook:
Introduction
I i
II The Present Collection and its
Arrangement 9
...
III Earliest Arms and Armor 20
IV Arms and Armor of the Bronze Age
and Classical Antiquity 22
. .
V The Early Centuries of the Chris-
tian Era 32
VI Chain-Mail and Mediaeval Armor 35
.
VII The Period of Transition from
Chain - Mail to Plate - Armor
(1200- 400) 42
1
VIII The Period of Plate-Armor and
...
Fire-Arms (1400-1780) 45
A Armor of the Fifteenth Century 46
B Arms of the Fifteenth Century . 54
C Armor of the MaximiHan Period
(1500-1530) 59
D Jousting Armor 63
E Arms of the Early Dec.ade.s.of .the
Sixteenth Century 67
vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Vlll
PAGE
F Armor of the Middle and Late
Sixteenth Century 69
. . .
G Swords and Daggers of the Sec-
ond Half of the Sixteenth Cen-
tury 73
H Pole-Arms 75
Bows, Arrows, and Crossbows 78
I .
J Fire-Arms of the Fifteenth.t.o t.he
Eighteenth Century 82
K Arms and Armor of the Seven-
teenth Century 94
L Horse Equipment during the Six-
teenth and Seventeenth Centu-
ries 103
M
Banners 104
IX Questions about Armor: Its Weight
and Size 108
X Japanese Arms and Armor 113
.
A Armor
117
B Swords 127
C Pole-Arms 32
1
D Bows and Arrows
i 34
E Guns, Pistols, and Cannon .135
.
F Horse Armor 36
1
XI Arms and Armor of the East: Arab
(Saracenic), Turkish, Persian, In-
dian, Chinese 138
List of Personages and Families whose arms,
personal or state, are represented in the col-
lection I_iy
Index OF Names
155