Boar Spear (AB)

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Boar Spear

The winged hunting spear is known back from the 400s. They evolve into the winged lance used from horse by the Francs.
After the 13th century, the winged lance evolves into different types of polearms, but one version keeps the original shape, and it is used for the hunting of wild boar.
The boar spear is again, in the early 1400s, taken up and used as weapons. It is treated in combat manuals equally as other polearms and was often depicted as a defense against cavalry.

Sources

Boar Spear 01 (A)

Source type (A):
Archaeological object.
Current location:
Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen Denmark.
Place of origin:
Denmark.
Dating:
Medieval.

Boar Spear 02 (B)

Source type (B):
Manuscript.
Name:
Welscher Gast.
Author:
Thomasin von Zerklaere.
Current location:
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (Cod. Pal. germ. 389 - f.51v).
Place of origin:
Bavaria (Regensburg?).
Dating:
1256.

Boar Spear 03 (B)

Source type (B):
Manuscript.
Name:
Florius, ved arte luctandi.
Author:
Fiore delli Liberi, Fiore Furlano, Fiore de Cividale d'Austria.
Current location:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits (Ms. Latin 11269 - f.r6).
Place of origin:
Italy.
Dating:
1410-1420.
Note:
Fencing Manual.

More sources

Boar Spear 04 (B)

Source type (B):
Manuscript.
Name:
Ordo Sancti Benedicti. Abbatia Sancti Laurentii (Liège).
Author:
-
Current location:
Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Brussels, Belgium (Ms. 10066-77 - f.285).
Place of origin:
Abbaye de Stavelot, Liège, Belgium.
Dating:
Ca. 900-1000.

Boar Spear 05 (B)

Source type (B):
Manuscript.
Name:
Theatrum sanitatis.
Author:
Ibn Butlan.
Place of origin:
Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, Italy (codice 4182).
Current location:
-
Dating:
Late 1300s.
Note:
The text is a translation of Ibn Butlan.s texts from the 11th century.

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