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While browsing some of the on-line sources of medieval manuscripts
recently, Tiffany Brown (aka Teffania Tuckerton in the SCA) discovered four more
band looms like the ones seen in "Ecclesiastical Pomp" and "Anna Neuper".
It is with much pleasure that I pass this information along to you with thanks
to Tiffany.
You can view the pictures by going to the main library web site, then
typing in the MS number.
Boccace, "De Mulieribus Claris", 15th c. (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale,
MS. Francais 598, fol. 58)
-- no tablets; ?warp spreader; sword beater
-- two upright posts, about waist level, on T-bases with a flat board
between them with the band warped toward the top of the posts
Miniature of the Virgin Mary, ca. 1475 (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library,
MS. M. 1001, fol. 18r)
-- tablets; no warp spreader; sword beater
-- two upright posts, about shoulder height, with no bases or cross
pieces
Miniature of the Virgin Mary, ca. 1430 (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library,
MS. M. 64, fol. 21r)
-- no tablets; no warp spreader; no sword beater
-- two upright posts, about shoulder height, with no bases or cross
pieces
Miniature of the Virgin Mary, ca. 1480 (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library,
MS. M. 6, fol. 21r
-- no tablets; no warp spreader; no sword
beater
-- part of what appears to be a low band loom less than waist high with one
post on a flat board and with warp possibly indicated about halfway up the
post
Nancy
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