Illustrations in the Ripoll (or Farfa) Bible, Catalonia, Spain, ca. 1027-1032

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Ripoll Bible (Farfa Bible), Catalonia, Spain, ca. 1027-1032
This contains some of the earliest depictions of kite and almond shields in the West.
Ripoll Bible Folio 1r 5th register, Joshua defeats the Amalakites at Rephidim
Ripoll Bible Folio 6v 2nd register, Pharaoh and guards
Ripoll Bible Folio 82r register 2, Pharaoh's army crossing the Sea of Reeds
Ripoll Bible Folio 94v registers 2 & 3: massacre of Amalakites by David
Ripoll Bible Folio 227r 2nd register, Nebuchadnezzar's Army besieges Jerusalem
Ripoll Bible Folio 227r 3rd register, Nebuchadnezzar's Army besieges Jerusalem
Ripoll Bible Folio 227v 4th register, after the siege of Jerusalem
Ripoll Bible Folio 327r 2nd register, a battle
Ripoll Bible Folio 327r 4th register, Holofernes' army invades Judea
Ripoll Bible Folio 342r: 1 Maccabees
Ripoll Bible Folio 352r 2nd register, King Antiochus tortures Jews (2 Maccabees 7:1-41)
Ripoll Bible Folio 352r 4th register, Battle against Nicanor

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Ripoll Bible (Farfa Bible), Catalonia, Spain, ca. 1027-1032

Druzhina345
11th century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

[Common Soldier]

Good work, keep up the work.

It was interesting to compare these illustrations with the Bayeux Tapestry, made around 50 years later. You see a lot of changes in those 50 years.

1. Most of the shields in the illustrations were round shields, only a few kit. In the tapestry they were all kite shields.

2. Relatively few wore armor in the illustrations, and tne armor they did wear only went to the waist. In the tapest4y, most wore arnmor, and the arnmor went to the knees.

3. None of the warriors in the illustration wore a helmut like the one that everyone wore in the tapestry, with a nose guard and a conical shape.

4. While some of the riders had foot stirrups in the illustration, there were some riders shown without stirrups. All the riders in the tapestry had stirrups.