RE: [h-cost] Robin ? sideless surcoats

2006-06-25 Thread otsisto
Yep. :) Thank you, De -Original Message- Does this help? --Robin ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Robin ? sideless surcoats

2006-06-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
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

Re: [h-cost] Robin ? sideless surcoats

2006-06-25 Thread Robin Netherton
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

Re: [h-cost] Robin ? sideless surcoats

2006-06-25 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: [h-cost] Robin ? sideless surcoats

2006-06-24 Thread Robin Netherton
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