Two Multibarrel Organ Guns by Leonardo da Vinci, ca. 1500

[Matchlock]

Here are different types of stocked multibarrel organ guns, drawn by Bartholomäus Freysleben, Inventarium Büchsen und Zeug (Guns and Accouterments), 1495-1500, Cod. icon. 222.

Illustrated below is a remarkable triple barrel haquebut without a lock mechanism; its barrels had to be ignited separately.
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[Matchlock]

This one is built re-using older bronze haquebut barrels, ca. 1470.
Drawn by Philip Mönch in his Kriegsbuch (Book of War) in 1496, cod.pal.germ. 126.

Also note the iron reinforced limestone ball and the incendiary arrow.

Best,
Michael

[Matchlock]

These are built from recycled 1540's short Landsknecht arquebuses barrels, assembled and mounted in the 2nd half of the 17th c. (Baroque period).

The top barrel with its heavily swamped and widely flared muzzle is even as early as ca. 1480!

For a perfectly preserved Landsknecht matchlock arquebus of ca. 1540, the barrel with identically incised vertical lines at the long muzzle section, in my collection,

please go

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ight=straubing

Best, Michael