Hanna Zickermann wrote: > You´re welcome. The picture is taken from the > British Museum MS. No. D. IX. (late fifteenth > century).
That's what Houston says, but that's not a recognizable MS shelfmark for the British Museum. As far as I know, all manuscripts there have a collection name as part of the shelfmark (Harley, Royal, Cotton and its many subsets, etc.). Plus Houston doesn't give a folio number, so you might as well whistle as find that thing. I've never seen it ... and I've looked, having been interested in her supposed "archway armhole" for many years. (Frankly, I don't think that straight sleeve cap will work in most fabrics, maybe none at all, without pinching deeply in front and back of the shoulder joint.) I do know it's not London, British Library Royal 1 D. ix, which is Anglo-Saxon. So is MS Cotton Junius D. ix, I believe. Could be MS Royal 18 D. ix, which is an illuminated Bible of Edward IV, from 1479 Bruges,, but I've only seen a page or two from it, not enough to guess if the style matches up with Houston's drawing. There's also MS Nero D. ix., the Romance of Sir Jehan de Santre, 15th c., which looks promising though I've seen only one image from it. You can find Houston's text here: http://books.google.com/books?id=Z430bgXpeUgC Go to "Preview this Book" and look at p. 140 for the quotation, 141 for the pattern diagram, and 142 for her redrawing of the picture. > There´s also "The Depositon from the > Cross" by Gerard David (1460-1523) in the > National Gallery, London, which has similar cut > armholes but no seam at the waist. That's also what Houston says. Oddly, out of a huge pile of books on Flemish art and loads of images of David's, I have only one image of this one, and it's not clear enough to show the seams. Ditton the several online versions. I presume the seams in question are on the lady in the light blue dress at the lower left. I surely must have seen the picture in person, but I don't have a slide of it, and I frankly don't remember the seams ... and you'd think I would have. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
