An arquebus, similar to the one illustrated by Jörg Ratgeb, mounted with a brass barrel, the snap-tinderlock serpentine inaptly depicted to be attached on the right-hand side of the barrel (!), from the earliest Maximilian armory inventory, by Bartholomäus Freysleben, ca. 1495-1500, cod. icon. 222, fol. 181v.
It is labeled as messing hanndtpüchse (brass-barreled arquebus).
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Last edited by Matchlock; 15th April 2012 at 11:18 PM.
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