The Siege of Jerusalem as depicted in a 14th century bible made for Richard II of England
Date Description Source Reference
Early 14th century. Twenty one white bell tents  surround Jerusalem (Black and white picture). 

Pointed apexes, some with encircling lines about apex, lines depicting panels on roof and walls, upward point spike decoration on roof panels above roof edge on some tents, double point attachment for roof edge guy ropes. 

One of the bell tents in the foreground is connected to a small bell to by a covered corridor similar in decoration, guy ropes and pegs, to the bell tents. See “Cloth of Gold” for similar corridors.

  “The Siege of Jerusalem as depicted in a 14th century bible made for Richard II of England. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.” 

“Attack on a walled city (early fourteenth century).” British Museum Library. 

 Hallam, E., Ed., Chronicles of the Crusades, Eyewitness Accounts of the Wares between Christianity and Islam, New Jersey, 1997, p. 54. 

Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978, p. 148. 

Also Dunan p. 358 and Billings p. 54.
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