A cannon is fired , De nobilitatibus sapientii et prudentiis regum (Musée de l'Armée), 1326VIDEO
Hand cannon , c. 1350Hand bombard , c. 1380 (also here )A small hand cannon , made in France in the 14th or 15th centuryHand bombard , c. 1390-1400Hand cannon fired from a stand , Belli Fortis , c. 1400Hand cannon (Couleuvrine à main) , 15th centuryA siege , Les Grandes Chroniques de France (British Library Sloane 2433, vol. 2, fol. 113), c. 1410-1420A small Burgundian cannon (side view ), 15th centuryThe siege of Sagunto , Ab urbe condita (BNF Fr. 33, fol. 120v), mid-15th centuryDrawings of cannons by Pisanello: Louvre 2295v , Louvre 2293 , Louvre 2294r
De re militari (Canon. Class. Lat. 185), before 1462, fols. 150r , 153v , 164r , 166v-167r , 168v-169r Siege of a walled city , Histoire ancienne jusqu' à César (Douce 353, fol. 1r), third quarter of the 15th centuryUlysses plays chess , Épître d'Othéa (Bodl. 421, fol. 57v), third quarter of the 15th centuryApe with a cannon , book of hours (Canon. Liturg. 283, fol. 85r), third quarter of the 15th centuryThe Battle of Crécy , Froissart's Chronicles (BNF Fr. 2643, fol. 165v), second half of the 15th centurySiege of Veius , Fleur des histoires (BNF Fr. 55, fol. 206v), second half of the 15th centurySiege of Paphos , History of Troy (BNF Fr. 59, fol. 31v), second half of the 15th centuryBas-de-page illustration of an ape firing a cannon at another ape’s butt, the Hours of Adélaïde de Savoie (Musée Condé 76, fol. 68r), c. 1460-1465Bronze cannon (detail ), c. 1461-1483 The surrender of Flavius Josephus (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 353v), and the martyrdom of St. Didier (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 328v), Speculum historiale , 1463Hospitallers at the Crusades , The Hours of Pierre de Bosredont (PML G.55, fol. 140v), c. 1465Assault on Ribodane , Froissart's Chronicles (British Library Harley 4379, fol. 83v), c. 1470-1475Siege of Auberoche , Chroniques d'Angleterre (BNF Fr. 87, fol. 81), c. 1470-1480The siege of Galapia , The Knight Cifar (BNF Esp. 36, fol. 17v), fourth quarter of the 15th centuryEmblem of Louis of Bruges in Antiquities of the Jews , fourth quarter of the 15th century: BNF Fr. 11, fols. 1 , 3v , 32v , 64 , and 90 ; BNF Fr. 12, fols. 111 , 135v , 165 , and 199 ; BNF Fr. 13, fols. 240 , 266 , 287v , 308 , 334v , and 362v ; BNF Fr. 14, fols. 21 , 47 , and 101 ; BNF Fr. 15, fols. 1 , 24 , 41v , and 93 ; BNF Fr. 16, fols. 252 , 294 , 322v
Emblem of Louis of Bruges in Ancient History since Caesar , fourth quarter of the 15th century: BNF Fr. 39, fols. 91v , 129v , 163 ; also, Alexander takes a city (fol. 169); BNF Fr. 40, fols. 16 , 61v , 97 ; also, the siege of Sos (fol. 50v)
Gun mounts on fols. 15v and 16v , Opusculum de architectura by Francesco di Giorgio, c. 1474-1482
Medieval cannons of various types on fols. 19v , 51v , 53r , 54v , 101r , 165v , 165v , 167v , 169v , 186r , 188v , 193v , 195r , 197v , 198r , 199r , 205r , 206r , 211v , 213r , 219r , 235r ,
Vigiles de Charles VII (BNF Fr. 5054), 1484
The capture of Evreux , Chroniques de France ou de Saint Denis (British Library Royal 20 E III, fol. 152v), 1487A duck hunt on the back of a comb , c. 1490-1500
Crusaders attack Nicea (fol. 32v), The siege of Tanis (fol. 357), Saladin attacks Jerusalem (fol. 438), Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier (British Library Royal 15 E I), late 15th centuryThe siege of Pampeluna (fol. 28v), capture of a bastion at Troyes (fol. 59v), soldiers fighting outside the walls of Brest (fol. 224r), Chronique d' Angleterre (British Library Royal 14 E IV), late 15th centuryJudith and Holophernes by Israhel van Meckenem; note the powder container (see also Musée del'Armée 362 Po; N 33) Small piece of artillery with the inscription “Donné par Charles VIII, seigneur de Pins, capitaine des bandes de l'artillerie en 1490” A hackbutt (canon d’haquebute) , end of the 15th centuryCannon made in Portugal c. 1495-1523, found in Benin CityA boy fires a gun at a target , a book of hours (Douce 276, fol. 12v), beginning of the 16th centuryLandscape with hunt scenes , c. 1500-1525Fortification , an illustrated geography (ÖNB 2858, fol. 21r), c. 1505-1515Base-de-page in an illustrated prayerbook (ÖNB 2747, fol. 68r), 1512Two galleys in a battle , a drawing attributed to Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, c. 1515-1559A hunter , a book of hours (Douce 135, fol. 48r), second quarter of the 16th century A soldier with an arquebus by Virgil Solis, c. 1530-1555Three soldiers on watch in front of a burning town by Sebald Beham, c. 1531-1550Landscape with figures hunting a stag by Domenico Campagnola Two soldiers by Andreas Summer, c. 1567-1569A sniper by Nikolaus Solis, c. 1560-1584The gunsmith and the rifle-butt-maker , Das Ständebuch , 1568A hunter in the Stammbuch of Johann Friedrich Welser, c. 1570-1580Illustrations from Fronsperger's Kriegsbuch by Jost Amman, 1573:
title page with two cannons ;
a cannon and a cannoneer with a match pole ;
a wagon train
Janissary ('MILES PRAETORIANUS sive Janizarus') by Hans Weigel, Habitus Praecipuorum Populorum , 1577Philip of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont , 16th century Machines et utensils de guerre (Douce b. 2), fols. 43r , 44r , 45r , 49r , 57r , 62r , 85r , 108r , 1582A formation of foot-soldiers armed with muskets , 1591A hunter and his wife , Album Amicorum of Jan van der Deck (Rawl. B. 21, fol. 56r), after 1592Duck hunting by Dietrich Meyer, 1599The riding school or exercise of cavalry , after 1599A Swiss soldier with gun and slow match , Description of Switzerland (British Library Add. 18285, fol. 143), 1607Venationis Piscationis et Aucupii Typi (bird hunting), c. 1617-1635Arrival in Vlissingen by Adriaen van de Venne, c. 1618A musketeer by Jacob de Gheyn II Landscape with a duck hunter by Jacques Callot 
