Interesting 14th century armouring approaches

[PartsAndTechnical]

Ive been mining the manuscript miniatures website for the last few days and ran across some curious things. Figured Id post some of the more bizarre and unusual images.


Note the second most fella on the left ....his rather complex colletin/gorget. I count at least four layers there.

http://manuscriptminiatures.com/bible-h ... -159/2505/

[PartsAndTechnical]

We have seen scale faulds and DPU fauld attachments. This is a curious amalgamation of the two.

http://manuscriptminiatures.com/chroniq ... c-vii/849/

[PartsAndTechnical]

We've seen kastenbrusts galore but this adds some flavor and we dont see it much, the French version: The "Frankenbrust." It has a more rounded flavor to it than its German counterpart.

http://manuscriptminiatures.com/le-livr ... andre/482/

http://manuscriptminiatures.com/le-livr ... andre/481/

[Konstantin the Red]

http://manuscriptminiatures.com/chroniq ... c-vii/849/

Resembles the multilame faulds of the Pistoia Altarpiece in working principle. Not sure I could/should make anything much of the esoteric rivets arrayed there.

Personally, I lean to assigning DPU-ness to a piece when such a widget depends off the skirts of a corrazina or similar-plan torso armor. I think a few links I have posted in threads where I use the word "nad-tasset" are still hot after all this time. IOW, I look for a difference of the forms of the component and its neighbors, and less so the integrated single V of the Pistoia style fauld. The Pistoias also show mail faulds/haburgeons beneath the V-pieces, for multilayer hip defenses. I really should get ambitious and try and build one.

http://manuscriptminiatures.com/le-livr ... andre/482/

Hello -- a russet colored orle of fur[?] about his helmet??
Those oliphaunts sure better be trumpeting! Neato dags on the green tunic of the trumpeter in the background. Look like rhododendron.

• Whoopie ti yi yo,
  Get along, little piggies,
  You know north India will be your new home

http://manuscriptminiatures.com/le-livr ... andre/481/

Now the left-foreground guy with the big long lance, he's sporting the nad-tasset.
Beware, O beware the Amish Annihilator, top center, and his fearsome chauve-souris! Especially if you're a conspicuously female dragon. Also, a man willing to walk down the street in a hat like that ain't afraid of nobody.