"Fig. 63 (on the engraving) depicts a dagger which Duke Rudolph of Swabia wore, when, in 1080, he at Merseburg, against King Henry IV., which belongs, therefore, to the last halt of the eleventh century, if not still earlier. This dagger, the richly decorated gold hilt of which displays a skill in carving remarkable for that age, gives evidence also of the perfection of the armorer's art at that period. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, however, this art attained in Germany, but especially in Northern Italy, a very high degree of excellence; and we have admirable suits of armor of that age, in which the inlaid work is principally arabesque and leaf-work, or escutcheons. Here also we will follow the division of weapons into those of offense and defense and describe them as they are represented in plates 15. The bow proper (figs. 1 and 2) held its repute longest among the Scandinavians and Normans;  in Germany it was almost entirely superseded as early as the twelfth century, by the crossbow, which the old balista suggested."

Other figures depict: 3. Earliest form of cross-bow, 4-6. early types of arrows, 7-12. Various types of arrow heads, 13. Steel bow's strengthening bolt, 14-18. Stone battle axes, 19. Hunting spear, 20-47. Various types of spears, 31,35. 43-47. One, two, three or more point spear, 20,21,23-28, 47. Curved blade spear, 24,20,31,32,42,45. Spears with side points, fig. 32, 49, 50ab. Shaft of the partisan, 6-8 feet long, 48. Knight's lance, hollowed out under the arm with a  Knob-like end of a tournament lance, 59. Sword of Charles the Great, 51,52,53 and 56. Later forms of knight's sword, 56. Heavy pommel, 56. Blade of sword worn y John George I of Saxony, 57. of henry the Pious, 51, 58,62. German rapiers, 54,55. 15th Century flame-shaped sword, 60a. Sickle shaped sword, 60b. A dussac used by the Bohemians in the Hussite wars, 63. Three-edged pointed dagger, 64. Sickle used by the Bohemians, 65. Danish axe, 66. Danish axe with several points, 67. battle axe of the Elector John George I of Saxony, 68. Morgenstern club, 69,70. Mallet or death club, 71. Morgenstern, made of wood with iron points, 72. Infantry shield, 73. Archers' curved shield, 74. Round shields, 75. Saracenic shield, 76. Smaller shields for knights, fringed, 77. Shield with iron spikes.