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| This page is an index of the historic counter-weight trebuchet illustrations appearing on the 'Grey Co Trebuchet' web-pages. By clicking on the illustration number to the left of any of the brief picture descriptions you will go to the appropriate place in the file containing your choice. |
| 1 | Siege of Carlisle in 1315 (trebuchet, crewman and speared archer) |
| 2 | The Romance of Alexander c.1330. (trebuchet and two crew, one loading the sling) |
| 3 | "Bellifortis" by Konrad Kyeser von Eichstadt. c.1405 (trebuchet with protective wall and "squirrel cage" winch winders + views of historic cranes) |
| 4 | Konrad Kyeser's "Bellifortis" c1405 (timber machine with metal parts) |
| 5 | Kolderer c1507 (a large machine with a dead horse in the sling) |
| 6 | Plan of a trebuchet base by Villard de Honnecourt c.1250 (the only known contemporary trebuchet plan, plus Honnecourt's description) |
| 7 | Histoires d'Outremer - 13th Century (very simple single-post machines - throwing heads) |
| 8 | Early 14th Century trebuchet (BM MS Add.10294 f. 81v) (siege scene - treb being loaded while troops climb siege ladders) |
| 9 | Siege of Jerusalem, William of Tyre's "History", 14th Century (siege scene - two simple trebuchets, possibly with wheels) |
| 10 | Raschid al Din, 13th Century "Mongol" trebuchet, c.1306 (siege scene - archers, trebuchet engineer at machine with mallet) |
| 11 | Saray album (treb with multiple frame bracing and a strongly flared weight, possibly fixed) |
| 12 | Late 13th Century Trebuchet, Hasan al-Rammah c.1285 (machine with flared but definitely "hinged" counterweight.) |
| 13 | Roman de Godefrey de Bouillon, 14th Century (siege scene, stone striking castle) |
| 14 | Unidentified trebuchet with unusual weight and trigger (identification welcome) |
| 15 | Power of Love (Flower-throwing allegorical trebuchet from the "Power of Love" casket, 14th Century.) |
| 16 | Renatus, 1529 (Fixed-weight trebuchet with ballast in rope-bound cloth) |
| 17 | Trebuchet and Gunpowder (cannon and trebuchet side by side in a siege) |
| 18 | Milemete (A "rustic" machine from Walter de Milemete, early 14th Century) |
| 19 | "Minimal" Trebuchets (forked poles and weights attached to beams by long ropes) |
| 20 | "Bucket" Trebuchet (a weight bucket of stave and hoop barrel-like construction) |
| 21 | Tower-top Trebuchet (machine from Elegant Book of Trebuchets similar to No.14 plus apparent weight propping) |
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