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Johann Schiltberger

1381–c. 1440

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Cut-out detail; background removed. Pointed steel helmet with a face opening and small holes across its surface. — Unknown Italian craftsman; photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

According to Schiltberger, Jean de Nevers insists his fighters attack first.

Scene 4 · Nikopol

Johann Schiltberger is captured. After returning in 1427, he recounts his experiences.

Scene 6 · Nikopol

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Not a portrait · Copied between 1355 and 1356 by the monk Simeon for Tsar Ivan Alexander (r. 1331-1371) · Public domain · British Library via Wikimedia Commons
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Sources

Anonymous scribe; text: Johann Schiltberger; digitisation: Heidelberg University Library; crop as credited on Commons File:Cod. Pal. germ. 216 Schiltberger Heidelberger Handschrift 1r cropped.jpg Wikimedia Commons file record
Johann Schiltberger; translated and edited by J. Buchan Telfer; notes by Philipp Bruun The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396–1427 Hakluyt Society, first series; London · 1879 · 58 · 1–6, 107–109
Attila Bárány King Sigismund of Luxemburg and the preparations for the Hungarian crusading host of Nicopolis (1389–1396) PDF Daniel Baloup and Manuel Sánchez Martínez (eds.), Partir en croisade à la fin du Moyen Âge. Financement et logistique. Croisades Tardives. Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Midi, Méridiennes · 2015 · 4 · 153–178

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Siren Çelik The Crusade of Nicopolis and Its Aftermath: Views from Byzantine, French and Ottoman Sources Zbornik radova Vizantološkog instituta · 2023 · 60 · 219–246
Христо Димитров Българо-унгарски отношения през Средновековието София: Академично издателство „Проф. Марин Дринов“ · 1998 · 243–247 (consulted passages)
Unidentified Ottoman artist; scan: Szilas, from Géza Fehér, Török miniatúrák (Budapest: Corvina, 1978) File:Battle of Nicopolis.jpg Wikimedia Commons file record
Cambridge University Press The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger – publisher introduction PDF Cambridge Library Collection

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Unknown scribe · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Not a portrait: Opening leaf of a copy of Schiltberger’s account. Illustration to the passage mentioning Johann Schiltberger.

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Anonymous scribe; text: Johann Schiltberger; digitisation: Heidelberg University Library; crop as credited on Commons. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Cod. Pal. germ. 216, folio 1r, Heidelberg University Library. A later manuscript copy, not a battlefield notebook. Cropped version from Commons. Processed image.

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