The field of medieval arms and armour abounds with terms whose meanings are, as yet, lost to us. Of these, none is perhaps as recurrent or as widespread as the term musekin, amply present in a variety of European sources and languages between the 13th and the 16th centuries. Although familiar to experts, and included in a number of seminal works, no one source has of yet provided a definite, well-researched answer as to what musekins might be. This paper’s aim is therefore to try and work out what object or objects musekins might have corresponded to, by bringing together a considerable number and typology of sources—textual, artistic, and archaeological—from a wide variety of medieval European cultures, which are then analysed in a multi-pronged, multi-lingual, interdisciplinary approach. Possible identifications are then presented, in a process which highlights the potential for complementarity between different European languages and archives in researching medieval arms and armour.

中世纪武器和盔甲领域充满了我们至今仍不知道其含义的术语。其中，可能没有一个像“ musekin”这个词那样频繁出现或广泛传播。，大量存在于 13 世纪至 16 世纪之间的各种欧洲资料来源和语言中。尽管专家们对此很熟悉，并且包含在许多开创性的著作中，但目前还没有任何来源对缪斯金可能是什么提供明确的、经过充分研究的答案。因此，本文的目的是通过汇集来自各种中世纪欧洲文化的相当数量和类型的来源（文本、艺术和考古），尝试找出缪斯金可能对应的对象或对象。采用多管齐下、多语言、跨学科的方法进行分析。然后提出可能的标识，这一过程强调了不同欧洲语言和档案在研究中世纪武器和盔甲方面的互补潜力。