On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Susan B. Farmer wrote: > > 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?
Hmm. I think there's one on the CD of the facsimile of Machaut's manuscript, sold as a music reference -- an early music friend of mine says that the CD includes the illuminations as well as the pages with musical notation. I haven't seen this particular image on the 'net, though others from the same manuscript are online. You may need to go for the hardcopy. You can find this image and several others from the same manuscript in Francois Avril's "Manuscript Painting at the court of France, plates 23-25. (Susan, plate 24 is the one we used for the cover image of MC&T vol. 1.) --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
