| Date | Description | Source | Reference |
| 14th century. | A bell tent with the sections of the roof alternate colours (red and tan) and blue and white decoration on the walls just below the roof line. | “Saracen beggars appealing for Crusader charity mask the advance of
their armed comrades (from the 14th century Chroniques de St. Denis).”
British Museum/Weidenfeld Library.
“... In this fourteenth century manuscript of the Chroniques de France, crusader encounter unarmed Saracen leaders whose followers nonetheless bear spears and brandish scimitars (...British Museum MS Royal 16. G.VI, fol 442r).” |
Humble, R., Warfare in the Middle Ages, London, 1989, p. 46.
Minney, R.J., The Tower of London, London, 1971, p. 26. |
Link to picture
http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/striped.htm
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