Konrad Kyeser's Bellifortis

[Bernd]

I think it's good Kyeser gets his own thread.
Interestingly, like Johannes de Fontana, Kyeser spent time in Padua. However, since Fontana lived approx. 1395-1455 and Kyeser can only have been in Northern Italy 1389-1394 before he joined the crusade against the Turks, they can never have met. This also means that Kyeser predates Fontana. I am still looking into literature on Kyeser but I am too busy at the moment.

Regarding the stars, I agree they look similar but the method they were drawn is not. This is not surprising as nobody is proposing the illustrator of the Bellifortis is the VM artist. I agree it could have been a source.