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Siege of Jerusalem, left panel

Beatus of Liébana, Las Huelgas Apocalypse, Spain, 1220AD, Morgan MS M.429, folio 149v

Note the leg-forward riding style. Both the besiegers and defenders of Jerusalem have tassels on their shields.

This miniature illustrates a siege in which Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem and, on the plain of Jericho, the escaping King Sedecias of Judah. At the bottom left sits the enthroned Nebuchadnezzar, flanked by guards in thirteenth-century armour; he directs the blinding of Sedecias and the killing of his sons (4 Kings 25:1–7).