Technology: general issues

Editor: Leng, Rainer

Anleitung Schießpulver zu bereiten, Büchsen zu beladen und zu beschießen

Eine kriegstechnische Bilderhandschrift im cgm 600 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München

The "Anleitung Schießpulver zu bereiten, Büchsen zu beladen und zu beschießen" contains an illustrated manuscript of a gunmaster from the beginning of the 15th century. Some...

Einführung, lateinische Texte, Beschreibung und technischer Kommentar von Gustina Scaglia

Mariano Taccola – De Machinis

Faksimile des Codex Latinus Monacensis 28800, Teil II. in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München

Writing about engineering went through one of its decisive stages, on the way from the ancient treatise to the modern textbook, during the 15th century. Mariano Taccola of Siena...

Hall, Bert S.

The technological illustration of the so-called “Anonymous of the Hussite Wars”

Codex Latinus Monacensis 197,1

The „Manuscript of the Hussite Wars’ Engineer“ is frequently cited, but never studied in full. It is a compendium of drawings ans descriptions concerning military devices,...