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TITLE:  [Portable siege ladder]

CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in Incun. X .V4 (Rosenwald Coll) [Rare Book RR]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-110288 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication in the U.S. Use elsewhere may be restricted by other countries' laws. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...," (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html)

SUMMARY:  Print shows a portable ladder with sections that are screwed together, used during siege warfare.

MEDIUM:  1 print : woodcut.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [1475]

RELATED NAMES:

Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.

NOTES:

Title devised by Library staff.

Illus. in: Des durchleichtigen wolgebornen Grauen Flauii Vegecii Renati kurcze Red von der Ritterschafft (De re militari) / Flavius Vegetius Renatus. [Augsburg : Johann Wiener, ca. 1475].

Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 19.

SUBJECTS:

Military art & science--1470-1480.
Ladders--1470-1480.
Siege warfare--1470-1480.

FORMAT:

Book illustrations 1470-1480.
Woodcuts 1470-1480.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c10288 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10288

CONTROL #:  2006680130



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