England/France: The earliest illustration of a European cannon (a 'pot-de-fer' or 'iron pot'), from 'De nobilitatibus, sapientiis, et prudentiis regum' by Walter de Milemete (fl. 14th century), 1326 Walter de Milemete was an English scholar who wrote a treatise on kingship for the young prince Edward, later king Edward III of England, called 'De nobilitatibus, sapientiis, et prudentiis regum' (1326). One of the marginal border illustrations in the Milemete Treatise shows a soldier firing a large vase-shaped cannon, an arrow-shaped projectile seen projecting from the cannon.

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