The Grey Company Trebuchet Page - http://members.iinet.net.au/~rmine/gctrebs.html
> does not speak French. Can anyone recommend a good source?
Date: February 7, 2006 6:47:47 PM CST
To: mauramc4880 at aol.com, sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
Subject: RE: [Sca-librarians] Trebuchet help
I did a FastAndSneaky and went to Books in Print online here at work. I got nothing by putting "trebuchet" in as either a title or subject keyword, but when I put in "catapult" as a subject, I got this: Art of the Catapult: how to buile Greek ballistae, oman onagers, English trebuchets and more ancient artillery by William Gurstelle Chicago Review Press, July 2004. $16.95 trade paperback ISBN 1-55652-526-5 (in case he needs it for interlibrary loan, or he decides to buy it). There were a couple of other titles on the list that didn't mention trebuchets, but were about seige engines of one variety or another.
I'd guess that there must be an SCA publication or website that would be interesting as well. Is his heart set on a trebuchet? Those Roman onagers are kinda neat. *g*
Tuiren
From: Stefan li Rous
Date: February 8, 2006 12:13:14 AM CST
To: Sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] Trebuchet help
On Feb 7, 2006, at 8:37 PM, Nancy Shapiro wrote:
> Gurstelle also wrote _Backyard Ballistics. _Backyard Catapult: How
> to Build Your Own_ by Bill Wilson. My local library has _Catapult:
> Harry and I Build A Siege Weapon_ by Jim Paul, which was pretty
> entertaining.
I bought this last one, and I was rather less than impressed. If you
are wanting to simply build something which will hurl something using
modern tools and stuff you could get from a junk yard, then this
might be okay. Even then, most of it was story with little in the way
of real details. It is certainly not something I would use to build a
medieval style treb or catapult.
Your best historic source is going to be Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey's
"The Crossbow, Mediaeval and Modern Military and Sporting. Its
Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on The Ballista
and Catapult of the Ancients and an Appendix on the Catapult, Balista
& the Turkish Bow" The Holland Press, London ISBN: 0-946323-14-3."
First published in 1903. My copy says "Tenth Impression 1995
Don't you just love those long, Victorian book titles... I think I
got all that right, but don't count on the capitalization. It is in
several fonts, some is in all capital letters, some not. I have no
idea how it would get entered into various book search engines.
Also, there was an edition published by Dover more recently. However
it is my understanding that the appendix on siege engines was not
printed in that edition. The Dover edition is much cheaper and is in
paperback.
Payne-Gallwey did get some of the inside mechanisms of the crossbows
wrong since he didn't have access to x-rays of the crossbows. You can
find corrected drawings in later books, but Payne-Gallwey's volume is
still considered the best.
I did buy multiple copies of the book when I found this edition as a
remainder. Even so, it was still in the $60 range if I remember
rightly. I didn't know the Dover edition was coming. But if someone
wants to buy one of my extras, contact me...
I'm not sure if these will help, but there are also these files in
the COMBAT section of the Florilegium:
siege-engines-msg (93K) 6/16/05 Catapults, trebuchets. Period and
modern.
trebuchet-art (18K) 4/25/95 Wall Street article on a modern
trebuchet.
Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
From: Carowyn Silveroak
Date: February 7, 2006 11:31:18 PM CST
To: Sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] Trebuchet help
I emailed the East Kingdom Siege Guild, and this was the reply:
Search trebuchet on ebay tho books will come up.
Item Number 8761717635 – 6035164206 - 5663721545
Also check out site http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/archive/arma/
Or http://198.144.2.125/Siege/Blueprints.htm
-Carowyn
From: Lynne Puckett
Date: February 8, 2006 11:31:07 AM CST
To: mhermance4 at myway.com
Cc: sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org, mauramc4880 at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Sca-librarians] Trebuchet help
http://members.iinet.net.au/~rmine/gctrebs.html
the Grey Company Trebuchet Page - most of what anybody would want to
know about building one, from an SCA-associated re-enactment group.
Aletheia Tarimaat
--
L. E. Puckett
Reference & Electronic Systems Librarian
Parmly Billings Library
510 North Broadway, Billings, MT 59101
http://www.billings.lib.mt.us
Ph: 406-657-8258
From: Derryk Carr
Date: October 25, 2006 4:06:01 PM CDT
To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] request for siege weapon assistance
I do not live in Texas, but there is a website (at
http://198.144.2.125/Siege/Blueprints.htm) that has many blue prints for
siege engines. Most of them are of Roman design but they might help. I hope
this aides your daughter's pursuits. Remember, if you build it to SCA rules,
you could get authorized and fire it (using tennis balls) at people in many
of our wars. More information regarding SCA siege can be found here:
http://marshal.ansteorra.org/siege_weapons
HL Aldric de Kerr
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