Quoting Robin Netherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, otsisto wrote:
Someone told me that sideless surcoats were only worn by royalty, yet
I found a picture for a French manuscript by Guilaume de Machault that
shows a lady in waiting in what appears to be a "brocade" sidless. So
is the Royal only w/sideless a myth or....????
much good stuff snipped
Now, back to the image you asked about. The Machaut manuscripts include
several women in surcotes. They are all on the early end of this timeline,
around 1350, and are among the evidence for the surcote being worn by
French noblewomen in this period. I use several of them in my lecture, in
fact. I would guess you are talking about the one in Le Remede de Fortune
(Paris, Bib. Nat. MS Fr. 1586), fol. 55 -- the banquet scene. Note,
though, that this is the earlier version of the surcote; it has a fur
edging at the opening, but it has not yet acquired the front "placket" or
"plastron" of fur and the jeweled decorations down the center front that
characterize the later style that appears to have been worn only by royal
women.
Is there a digital copy of this image anywhere?
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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