TENT - Re:Fleshing out an encampment

Tanya Guptill tguptill at teleport.com
Wed Jan 26 15:03:24 PST 2000


Stephen,

What are you doing up so early?  Thought this was pretty early Aussie Time.....
(p.s.  A late happy birthday to Bryn--how's he doing?)



Stephen Wyley wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I had trouble writing directly back to the chap asking about fleshing
> out his encampment, so please excuse the reprint of this information
> which has appeared on the list before.
>
> I should go through my data base and do a listing of ms which show
> general camping equipment, eg. tressells, chest, cooking gear etc.
> Watch this space...
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > I like you article on the Viking Beds. I was especially interested in
> > the Beds in Tents on the end, since I have a project underway dealing
> > with the Tents of History, see;
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Tents/intro.html
> >
> > I have not in fact come across the specific wood cut before so I will
> > have to add it to my ever going list.
> >
> > Other manuscripts which have beds in them are;
> >
> > Historie du Graal by Robert de Borron (13th Century)
> > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Tents/13thcentury/13thc-7.html
> >
> > Grandes de Chroniques de France (1400 A.D.)
> > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Tents/14thcentury/1400-1.html
> >
> > Bibbia Istoriata Padovanna (with some chests as well) (1400 A.D.)
> > (folios 51r and 51v)
> > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Tents/14thcentury/1400-2.html
> >
> > The Vision of Constantine by Piero Della Francesca (1454 -1458 A.D.)
> > http://www.geocities.comsvenskildbiter/Tents/15thcentury/1454-1458.html
> >
> > Judith Taking Holifern's Head (1455 - 1465 A.D.)
> > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Tents/15thcentury/1455-1465.html
> >
> > Iliad, Master of the Vatican Homer (1477 A.D.)
> > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Tents/15thcentury/1477.html
> >
> > Siege of Betulia by Erhard Schoen (1533 A.D.)
> > http://www.geocities.comsvenskildbiter/Tents/16thcentury/1533-1.html
> >
> > Judith and the Holofernes by H. Vogtherr, the Elder (1543 A.D.)
> > http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Tents/16thcentury/1510-2.html
> >
> > I have also noted that tents with chests in them are more frequent than beds.
> >
> > PS
> >
> > I think the Maciejowsky Bible (1250 A.D.) has some beds in tents too.
> >
> Bye for now,
>
> Stephen Francis Wyley
> stephenw-hrt at nmit.vic.edu.au
> Technical Officer
> (Plant Tissue Culture, Chemistry and Soil Science)
> Conservation and Applied Science Department, NMIT
>
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