Four figures with sword and buckler are portrayed as masorah figurata on the lower margins of the opening page of Hebrew Bible, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France héb. 1320, and the other is a Hebrew manuscript of the Bible made in 1304, that will be the focus of this article.
Two manuscripts produced in early fourteenth-century German-speaking areas reflect similar iconography of fighting with sword and buckler one is the well-known fencing treatise, Leeds, Royal Armouries, MS I. Challenges and Questions in Medieval Studies
