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Contents: Preface Introductory Illustrations (In certain versions of this etext, in certain browsers,clicking on this symbol will bring up a larger version of the illustration.) I: From The Fifth to The Fourteenth Century, II: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, III: The Age of Charles V, IV: The Decadence of Armour Footnotes (etext transcriber's note)

THE SPANISH SERIES


SPANISH ARMS
AND ARMOUR

SPANISH ARMS
AND ARMOUR

 
 
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMVII

 
 
E. Goodman and Son, The Phœnix Press  Taunton

 
 
DEDICATED
WITH PROFOUND RESPECT AND ESTEEM
TO HER MAJESTY
QUEEN MARIA CRISTINA OF SPAIN
WHO SO WORTHILY AND FOR SO LONG
MAINTAINED THOSE GLORIOUS TRADITIONS
OF SPANISH GREATNESS
WHICH ARE SYMBOLISED IN THE TREASURES
OF THE ROYAL ARMOURY

PREFACE

IN compiling this volume I believe I can claim, in a sense, to havebroken new ground, for although a description of the Spanish RoyalArmoury finds a place in every Guide and Handbook to Madrid, noexhaustive survey of the contents of this priceless treasure-house,apart from the official catalogue, is in existence.

The present work is based on the admirable catalogue prepared in 1898 atthe instigation of Queen Maria Cristina by the Conde de Valencia de SanJuan, to whom, with peculiar pleasure, I desire to make fullacknowledgment of my indebtedness. To the formal descriptions of theexhibits, which the Conde de San Juan has coll

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