German, elbow-shaped mortar or cannon, of the 15th century. With movable chamber and breech-loading, from the engravings of the Institutionum Reiplublicae Militaris by Nicolai Marescalchi, printed at Rostock 1515, in the Hauslaub Library in Vienna.
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