Wadding in 14th to 17th Century Loading

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Originally Posted by Spiridonov

written sources of the 15 th century (artillery manuscript) says that chamber was charged without the ball. I can find original text if you want

Hi Alexander,

I would be very grateful if you could find and publish the original text and give the bibliographical source (codex ...).

Thank you so much in advance!

Best,
Mikhail