Thirty Years' War resources

[Aart Brouwer]

Some (collections of) primary sources available on the Web:

1. Theatrum Europaeum, 21 volumes, Frankfurt am Main, 1646-1738

2. Mémoires de Montecuculi.. divisez en trois livres (Nouvelle édition) / : I. de l'Art militaire ; II. de la Guerre contre le Turc ; III. relation de la campagne de 1664

3. An history of the late warres and other state affaires of the best part of christendom : Beginning with the king of Swethlands entrace into Germany and continuing to the yeare 1640, Written in Italian by the Count Galliazzo Gualdo Priorato : and in English by the Right Honourable Henry Eearly of Monmouth, London, 1648

4. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

5. Wapenhandelinghe voor roers musquetten ende spiessen,  FIGVIRLYK UITGEBEELT door Jacob de Gheijn, 1607

6. Histoire générale des guerres de Savoie, de Bohême, du Palatinat ..., par le seigneur du Cornet, Gentilhomme Belgeois, avec une Introduction et des Notes par A.L.P. de Soumoy, 1868

7. Jérémie de Billon, Les Principes de l'Art militaire, 1633

8. The Thirty Years War; A Documentary History, Tryntje Helfferich, Indianapolis, 2009

9. Nouvelle collection des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France [...] Tôme septième, Mémoires du Cardinal de Richelieu

Cheers,
Aart

[maciek]

Great !
Thanks for sharing.

[Aart Brouwer]

Happy to oblige, maciek. I'll keep them coming.

1. Vinkhuyzen Collection at the American Library of Congress

2. Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen, Ritter- kunst : Darinnen begriffen, I. Ein trew- hertziges Warnung- schreiben wegen deß Betrübten Zustands jetziger Christenheit, 1614

3. Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen, Kriegskunst zu Pferd, 1616

4. Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen, Programma Scholae Militaris, 1616

5. Colbert de Lostelneau, Le Marechal de bataille, 1647

6. Alabarda uniform plates

Cheers,
Aart


Caballo coraza y arcabucero a caballo, 1603-1633


EDIT: Link bracket added.

[Aart Brouwer]

1. Viskavatov's early Russian plates 872-1700 a.D.

2. The Relation of Sydnam Poyntz, 1624-1636, 1908

3. Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von,Der Abentheurliche Simplicissimus Teutsch : Das ist: Die Beschreibung deß Lebens eines seltzamen Vaganten, genant Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim ... / An Tag geben Von German Schleifheim von Sulsfort, Mompelgart (probably Neurenberg), 1669

4. Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von, Continuatio des abentheurlichen Simplicissimi Oder Der Schluß desselben / Durch German Schleifheim von Sulsfort, Mompelgart (probably Neurenberg), 1669

5. Fisher Library, Wenceslas Hollar Collection

Cheers,
Aart

[J.S.]

Great links, thanks a lot for sharing these!!!
Maybe this one could be useful too:
http://greatestbattles.iblogger.org/Renaissance/RenaissanceWarfare-AirfixMagazineArticles.htm

[Aart Brouwer]

Maybe this one could be useful too:
http://greatestbattles.iblogger.org/Renaissance/RenaissanceWarfare-AirfixMagazineArticles.htm

Sure, Gush's articles may be a little dated, but they contain lots of great tidbits and reminders for people who take their TYW seriously.

However, I started this thread with the idea of providing links to primary sources or collections thereof.

I'm still researching the period and I am sure there is lots more out there, even though I haven't found it yet. Members who read only English may be disappointed that so much is in other languages, but that can't be helped. I have included English works and English translations of foreign sources whenever I could.

What I've learned so far is that from studying the primary sources you get a much clearer picture of the inner 'workings' of 17th century units and armies. For one thing, formations were much more flexible that we would gauge from the familiar engravings where armies and units usually appear very static (and often quite incorrect, since many artists were non-military men and they had seldom been present at the site of a battle which they depicted).

On the whole, I think research into the TYW is in a sense still in its infancy. I have just received my copy of Nördlingen 1634 (Weißenstadt, 2009) by Peter Engerisser and Pavel Hrnčiřík. The authors claim that German representations of that battle never took into account the rich material available in Spanish, Italian and English archives and that their access to those sources has provided them with lots of new angles.

Anyway, I have quite a few links for secondary sources as well. Maybe I should just whip them out as well. I'll be looking into them these days since I am still on holiday.

Cheers,
Aart