Cannons versus Pipes

[Stefan Wirtz_2]

Images tagged as depicting cannons.

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Guns / cannons are indeed the best shot here:
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Especially the guns of this image look familiar; all pictures are taken from Ivan IV.s ("the terrible") chronicles which were produced in Russia nearly a hundred years later than VMS. There are many more gun scenes in that manuscript, this here is just a selection. Artists keep the back ends of these barrels of these cannon barrels somehow hidden in all images -- maybe these parts were not known to them or considered irrelevant.
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So at least one major russian manuscript contained such strange, "bundled" cannons' paintings.
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Next shows that there was indeed a kind of "bundling" of cannons (from Ms. Thott 290.2, ~1458AD, closer in time to VMS).
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Here is a kind of practical use for bundled guns; R.Sale's link shows some other examples of "strange" gunnery from medieval times.
These may appear strange to us today, but obviously such weapons lived through some changes and developments from their beginnings, which were not very  much earlier than 14th/15th century at all.

On the other hand, nearly none of those people had ever seen a real cannon, some inaccuracies may result from simply not knowing the exact subject of that artwork.