Среднеазиатские и Ближневосточные мечи

[Timurid]

Датировки 14-15 вв. я лично не встречал, чтобы это относилось монголам. По видимому это или китайщина или познятина.

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Бобров в своей монографии приводил некоторые количество собственно мечей которые могли бы теоретически в ограниченном количестве использоваться воинами Центральной Азии. Но они были тибетского происхождения и с датировками с 18 ст (имеются в виду дошедшие до нас экземпляры приведенные Бобровым).

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Источник: http://www.hermann-historica-archiv.de/ ... at56_p.txt

A Mameluke sword
Egypt or Syria, 14th century
Strong double-edged blade with a shallow fuller on both sides and at the base of the blade three copper-inlaid dots, the fuller on one side shows remnants of a rubbed engraving. Iron quillons, the ends each pierced with two holes. Leather-covered grip with long, iron grip sleeves, under the pommel an eyelet with appended, ten-sided ring. Iron pommel. Length 93 cm.
Cf. also two similar examples in the collection of the Furusiyya Art Foundation, exhibition catalogue Paris 2007, no. 11 and 12.

Крупные изображения (за 4000 пикселей)
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion ... /73735.jpg
http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion ... 3735_b.jpg

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http://wanderwoman.smugmug.com/Art/Muse ... 1436_QS5Kq
Sword Hilt c.1180–1220 probably Afghani
gold with niello, 3 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. (8.9 x 12.4 cm)

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Источник: http://www.davidmus.dk/en/collections/i ... art/1-1998


Sword, iron with brass pommel
France or Italy; middle of 14th century
L: 105.5 cm

In 1365, Pierre de Lusignan – King of Cyprus and titular King of Jerusalem – captured the Egyptian port of Alexandria. His men refused to carry on toward Cairo, however, and before the young Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Shaban and his guardian managed to come to the aid of the city, the Christians had departed.
Some of the European weapons that had been taken or left were hung in Alexandria’s arsenal as trophies and given Arabic inscriptions. This one was donated by one of Shaban’s officers, Sayf al-Din al-Ukuz al-Malik Ashraf, in 769 H (1367-1368), but was later taken to Istanbul.
Inv. no. 1/1998

Детальные фотографии:
http://www.davidmus.dk/assets/255/12.3- ... svaerd.jpg
http://www.davidmus.dk/assets/2015/12_3 ... n-side.jpg

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http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20803/lot/37/

A Very Rare Medieval Blade With Gold-Inlaid Kufic Inscription
13th/14th Century
In excavated condition and probably adapted from a broadsword blade, double-edged and cut with two parallel lines over each side, the forte on one side with the inscription '...bi-hamal' [with Glory], and with slender tapering tang
50.3 cm.

Большая фотография: http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Im ... 3-14-1.jpg

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SWORDS AND SABERS DURING THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD
DAVID ALEXANDER
Gladius XXI, 2001, pp. 193-220
http://gladius.revistas.csic.es/index.p ... view/86/86

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http://www.hermann-historica-archiv.de/ ... at49_A.txt

13th/14th century
The straight (slightly bent), double-edged blade with remnants of a grip rivet on the conical tang, the iron quillons with a copper-soldered ferrule and silver-inlaid stripes on both sides, iron mushroom pommel, the oval ferrule below it with a ring for the hand loop. An excavated find preserved over its whole length with very good basic matter, partly cleaned at the quillons. Length 95.5 cm.
An extremely rare sword with supposedly Syrian/Mameluk provenance.
Compare: Islamic Swords and Swordsmiths, Istanbul 2001, Plate No. 80-83, and Islamiske vaben i dansk privateje, Copenhagen 1982, No. 24.

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http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=17520

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http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=17520
from the book "Al-Andalus The Art of Islamic Spain" published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion ... at65_a.txt
An Ottoman sword, 14th/15th century
Wide, double-edged blade, short straight cross-guard with recesses for scabbard and grip scales. Slightly conical tang with two rivet holes (one with rivet). Length 96 cm.
Rare sword type.
Provenance: South German private collection, 1970s and later.

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http://museum.velizariy.kiev.ua/kiev_ob ... index.html
Все четыре клинка из района битвы на Ворскле.
http://museum.velizariy.kiev.ua/kiev_ob ... rov062.jpg
http://museum.velizariy.kiev.ua/kiev_ob ... rov062.jpg
http://museum.velizariy.kiev.ua/kiev_ob ... rov065.jpg
http://museum.velizariy.kiev.ua/kiev_ob ... rov066.jpg
http://museum.velizariy.kiev.ua/kiev_ob ... rov067.jpg

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Кстати о гардах с драконами.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=566#p334
viewtopic.php?p=339#p339
David Alexander Pisanello’s hat. The costume and weapons depicted in Pisanello’s medal for John VIII Palaeologus. A discussion of the saber and related weapons // Gladius XXIV, 2004. pp. 135-186.
http://gladius.revistas.csic.es/index.p ... Article/40
Timurid saber, probably Samarqand mid 15th century. TopkapıSarayı Müzesi, 1/220.

Возможно, что гарда кинжала из Метрополитен музея - это сабельная гарда с обломаными усами.

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Two swords from the foundation of Gibraltar
David Nicolle
Gladius, Vol 22 (2002):147-199 doi:10.3989/gladius.2002.59

The two swords plus their associated acabbard and belt or baldric fragments which were found in Matin’s Cave, Gibraltar, date from the 12th century AD. Such dating is supporting the design to the objects themselves, their cultural-historical context, and their varied decoration. This evidence is also used to propose that the ensemble was all of Andalusian of North African origin, and as such represents an almost unique survival of 12th century western Islamic military equipment.

http://gladius.revistas.csic.es/index.p ... Article/59

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http://www.czernys.com/auctions_lot.php ... 58&asta=66
A highly important mameluke type sword with european crusader blade

description: Straight, double-edged blade with groove at the center, featuring the Passau Wolf and a cross on one side and Arabic writing - Abu al-nasr Shaykh hubs bi thaghr al-Iskandandariyya sana - Donated bySheikh Abu al-Nasr to the city of Alessandria - on the other side; under the langet is the tamga, a mark of an Ottoman shipyard, and a closed hole at the center of the blade; Ottoman, massive, iron grip , quillon with sharp langets, short quillons, slightly curved toward the blade and with hole near the edges; oval, brass pommel with deep grooves and a small ring underneath.

note The Alessandria Shypyard holds several sword with European, Medieval blades given by different Sheikhs from the 14th to the 15th Century, and then moved to Istambul by the sheikh Sélim at the beginning of the 17th Century. Fifteen swords have the name of the Sultan Malik al-Mu'ayyad Abu I-Nasr Shaykh (1412-21).
One heikh An-Nâsir Badr ad-Dîn Abû al-Ma`âlî al-Hasan, presumably the one named on the blade, reigned from 1347 to 1351 and from 1354 to 1361.
As for the original writings of the Alessandria swords, see Ludvik Kalus - Donations pleuses d'epees à l'Arsenal d'Alexandrie - Revue des Etudes Iaslamiques, 1982 Paris, Geithner 1991, p.1-122.
The pommel of the blade does not correspond to a specific type used in this period, during the Ottoman empire, but it is similar to Medieval swords used in England in the 13th/14th Century (see Oakeshott), see a sample on an antique drawing depicting a British knight holding a sword with a very similar pommel.
As for the sword, a scientific verification was made to test the hardness of the iron and a radiography also - both of them are available and confirm the results of other test made in the same period.

condition: good
dimensions: length 99.5 cm.