Vezető a Déri Múzeum kiállításaihoz (Debrecen, 1978)

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war hammer. That one from XVII. century has hatchet, gun and dagger pieces too. The next unit are formed with the equestrian equipments with the indispensable saddle. The complementary part of the saddle is the stirrup. Among the exhibited stirrups the earliest are the so-called Maximilanian ones. The bit served for direction of the horse. Near the gag bit accepted in Europe is to be seen a typical Hungarian bit the so-called papilionaceae bit which belong to an other Hungarian typfe, the horse bit. The spur also is an impotant piece of the equestrian equipments. Among the exhibited spurs the earliest is from XII

—XIII. century, from Romanesque Age. The weapons collection of Déri museum has weapons from Middle-and Far East too. We can see Albanian, Turkish, Persian weapons, decorated poniards, daggers, swords. From Far East Déri museum has Japanes weapons. The guns, bows and the lances are from XIX. century, the samuraj armours are from XVIII

—XIX. century. In the last gallery are Indian weapons, guns, swords, hatchets, executioner's sword with silver and golden decorations. LIST OF FIGURES 1. Basket épee Spanish, XVI. century. 2. Sabre with scabbard. Hungarian, XVII. century. 3. Two-handed sword. German, XVI. century. 4. „Iron hat", Italian, XV. century. 5. Labster-tail helmet. Polish, XVI. century. 6. Standing shield. Hungarian, XV. century. 7. Cross-bow. German, XVI. century. 8. Gun decorated with colour bone inlaid-work, a) stock, b) construction of the padlock. German, second part of the XVI. century. 9. Pistol decorated with bone inlaid-work. German second part of the XVI century. 10. „Topor", gun-like decorated war hammer, Hungarian, XVIII. century. 11. Pistol decorated with gold inlaid-work and with silver plated. Albanian, XVIII. century. 12. Maximiliams stirrup. German, XVI. century. 413