Nanceidos : opus de bello Nanceiano, hac primum exaratvra elimatissime nvperrime in lvcem emissvm
Nanceidos is a Latin poem about the Battle of Nancy of 1477, written by Pierre de Blarru (1437-1510) and printed in 1518, with woodcut illustrations for a humanist reading audience. The four pictures show a walled town on the left, a fortified earthwork with gabions, a row of cannon and armoured troops with pikes and banners on the right, and a striped pavilion, all drawn in dense, parallel-hatched woodcut line that a designer could borrow for dramatic period siege scenes.
