Caption:
Military equipment, 13th century. Various types of helmets, great helms, bascinets, morions, crested, conical and cylindrical helmets used by soldiers, courtly knights and crusaders. Taken from manuscripts in libraries in Burgundy, Brussels, Paris and London. Equipement militaire, XIIIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere from Charles Louandres Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.