[h-cost] Fwd: Does anyone in your Costume group know . . .

My husband sent this to me. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks, Catherine Does anyone know where this picture comes from? A fellow on the Armour Archive is wondering. I find the idea of a clearly noble lady tending a forge more than a little jarring . . .

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Need the URL to the image. I have a suspicion, but would like to verify. Mari 2008/6/18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My husband sent this to me. Has anyone seen this before? Thanks, Catherine Does anyone know where this picture comes from? A fellow on the Armour Archive is wondering. I find

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Sorry, I thought the image was imbeded in the e-mail. I'll try again. Catherine In a message dated 6/18/2008 9:34:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Need the URL to the image. I have a suspicion, but would like to verify. Mari 2008/6/18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

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Ah, it probably is, but my GMail is stripping the image out. Too bad. Mari On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I thought the image was imbeded in the e-mail. I'll try again. Catherine In a message dated 6/18/2008 9:34:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I thought the image was imbeded in the e-mail. I'll try again. I don't think the list allows images or attachments. Can you send us a URL? Like Mari, I have a suspicion. Several, in fact. There are some well-known illuminations of women working a forge,

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Jeb is trying to get the URL from the original poster. I'll forward it as soon as he gets it. Other lists I'm on strip attachments, too. The description you gave (sideless, bare head/long hair) matches the picture he sent me. She is standing in front of the forge with tongs in the

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The description you gave (sideless, bare head/long hair) matches the picture he sent me. She is standing in front of the forge with tongs in the fire. Her gown and the skirt of the sideless are a rusty-red color, with the upper part of the sideless in ermine.

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I wrote: The Book of Days cites it as Roman de la Rose, Paris, Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, MS 1125, fol. 115, but I believe that is wrong. The latter image (same book, earlier manuscript) is most likely the one seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/medievalarchive/1862182937/ Typo,