15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

[Mark Knowles]

No, any building will do.

Ok.

But there has to be a strong indication that the merlons were already like that before 1450, since they were often changed or added during restoration.

I think this quite hard to do as I think the merlons could be changed due to changing political affiliations whether they be ghibiline or guelph.

Both Nick Pelling and I associate the Voynich "castle" with the Milan Castle. However Nick has associated the castle with the later Sforza castle(see his book) and I have associated with the earlier castle on that site, which was destroyed in 1447. The Castello Sforzesco clearly has swallow tail merlons. However Nick and I were not clear as to whether the earlier castle, called the Castello di Porta Giova, had swallow tail merlons or not. See Nick's excellent research here:

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

There are other reasons why I think it did, but maybe this is something that has already been determined.