as 1349. Now as there is no record of a salade of the so-called Venetian type at so early a date, it is probable that barbutam in this will must refer to some other head-piece more akin to the bascinet. We ought to add that, according to Ducange, the term barbuta was used in the Italy of the XIVth century to indicate a man-at-arms, or a body of men-at-arms, much in the same way as in France the word "lances" had reference to a unit in battle, a company of lancers. Cereta, for instance, in his Veronese Chronicle, states that Bernabo Visconti, lord of Milan, attacked Verona in 1354 with "800 barbute."
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Fig. 424a. Statuette of a Knight (41 cm. in height) representing St. George
Carved in wood and originally painted. It is one of the figures on a wing of an altar-piece of the second half of the XIVth century by Jacob de Baers
Now in the museum at Dijon. From Herr J. von Hefner-Alteneck's "Waffen"
See page 157
