Crinet

Marking: Stamped with the Nuremberg mark and the maker's mark of Valentin Siebenbürger.

William H. Riggs, Paris (until 1913; his gift to MMA).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480–1620," February 15, 2005–September 3, 2007, no. 13.

Exposition universelle internationale de 1889. Exposition rétrospective de l'art française au Trocadéro, edited by Alfred Darcel, and Emile Molinier. Exposition universelle de 1889. Lille: L. Danel, 1889. p. 32, nos. 41–42 (including the portrait of the Marechal Marquis de Perignon).

Reitzenstein, Alexander von, and Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin. "Ein Harnisch Valentin Siebenbürgers in französischem Museumbesitz." Waffen– und Kostümkunde: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Historische Waffen– und Kostümkunde, Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen- und Kostümkunde, 32, ser. 3 v. 15, no.2 pp. 99–108.

Williams, Alan. The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern Period. History of Warfare, Vol. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2002. p. 630 (a very similar etched crinet bearing the Siebenburger mark, in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, inv. no. W.644, which tested to be of low-carbon steel).

Pyhrr, Stuart W., Donald J. La Rocca, and Dirk H. Breiding. The Armored Horse in Europe, 1480–1620. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. pp. 7, 44–45, 58, 68, no. 13, ill.

Lazar, Tomaž. "An Armour by Valentin Siebenbürger in the National Museum of Slovenia." The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society