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2263: 219: 25: 78: 90: 238:(figuring as part of the full military dress of the deceased knight). By the mid-14th century, the baselard is a popular sidearm carried by the more violence-prone section of civilian society, and it retains an association with 439:. The idea is that the grip has two pronounced guards at a right angle, on either side of the hand, like the two vertical bars of the letter H, or alternatively like two pronounced horizontal serifs of the letter I) 491:) in the accounts of an arms dealer of Florence, Francesco Datini, dated to 1375. See Meier (1998). Earlier authors made other attempts at suggesting plausible etymologies. Jonathan ooucher in his 177:
could probably be applied to a wider class of large dagger. The term (in many spelling variants) first appears in the first half of the 14th century. There is evidence that the term
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recording a case against a man who had injured a woman by striking her on the head with this weapon. Several German law codes of the 14th to 15th centuries outlaw the carrying of a
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also associates the weapon with vain gaudiness: in this case, two priests, "Sir John and Sir Geoffrey", are reported to have been sporting "a girdle of silver, a baselard or a
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shows a group assaulting Tyler with a variety of weapons (including a Falchion), while the weapon used to slay Tyler is drawn as a long, straight baselard sword.
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and the large dagger with H-shaped hilt or "baselard proper" appear by the mid 14th century. Several 14th-century attestations from France gloss the term as
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man hat verboten daz dhein burger weder in der stat noch auzwendig niht sol tragen dhein silberin gürteln dhein welhisch messer noch dheinen basler
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assumed the word to be "Old Teutonic" (according to Boucher). Oberlin (1781) also claims Germanic origin by connecting it to a "Gothic
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wel man zu Meinze inne woninde ist, der rutinge dregit odir swert odir beseler, der sal uz Meinze varin ein vierteil iaris
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is mostly reserved for a type of 14th-century dagger with an I-shaped handle which evolved out of the 13th-century
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and its variations persist for some time, but lose their connection with a specific type of knife. French
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Armi d'attaco, da difesa e da fuoco, la collezione d'armi del Museo d'Arte Medievale e Moderna di Modena
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2593 (c. 1400) records a song satirizing the use of oversized baselard knives as fashion accessories.
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inside a city. By the late 14th century, it became fashionable in much of Western Europe, including
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suggesting that the reader was at the time not assumed to be familiar with the term. E.g.:
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Songs and Carols Printed from a Manuscript in the Sloane Collection in the British Museum
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seems to have referred to the 14th- to 15th-century weapons with the characteristic
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by Murray (1885), suggesting that the word is "probably a derivative of late Latin
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in its current (2010) online edition preserves the suggestion from the original
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The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of
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discovered an explicit record of 14th-century baselards manufactured in Basel (
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Satzungsbücher und Satzungen der Reichsstadt Nürnberg aus dem 14. Jahrhundert
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The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
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A very late occurrence of the term is found in 1602, in the context of a
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Also in English, the term could now refer to a Turkish weapon like the
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After this, use of the term is restricted to antiquarian contexts.
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Depictions of mid-14th-century examples are preserved as part of
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Die Acht-, Verbots- und Fehdebücher Nürnbergs von 1285–1400
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Pearce (2007) calls this "a hilt in the form of a capitol (
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which is contemporaneously also called a "long sword" by
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Drawing of the baselard shown on the effigy of Thomas de
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could now refer to a curved, single-edged hewing knife.
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