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 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."

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