The Armour Archive

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Internet Archive is widely used for translations of medieval texts already, so many iof us are used to the format. Thanks for the link.

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I had hastily posted a response this morning, but deleted it, to give the matter more thought. "Tymbria scurellorum" may truly be related to squirrel fur. Tymbria/timbria appears in later records as a bundle of 40 or 50 pelts, so may have nothing to do with wood or timber https://www.sizes.com/units...

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Perhaps of more interest is the fact that the cargo belonged to German merchants. The common narrative being that pairs of plates originated in German speaking regions, perhaps influenced or spurred on by the Mongol invasions. This may point out that the language of 'par de platis' may not have been...

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There are cuiries which are some kind of hardened leather defense for the chest. They may appear show up in the Maciejowski Bible and in some English effigies which Pavel A. did not include. Cuirie is the root of cuirass and chorassina so there is an etymological connection from these to later plat...

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Here's a previous thread with two sources from the 1280s showing shoulder hinges. The likeliest explanation for me is a side-opening pair of plates.
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Pavel's thread on the XIII Century FB page is a good start. Whether the origin lies in the Baltic Wars or the Mongol invasion is debatable, but the geography of the early sources is consistent.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/xiiicentu ... tid=Nif5oz

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Is there a reason to think the fitz Marmaduke inventory refers to defensive chains rather than weapon retention chains?

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Some of the Wisby coifs use "Option B", a sewn-in lining

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Coque = cockle, shell, or hull.
In English, something which opens in two halves like a cockle, clam, or walnut. Sounds like what we would term an armet with two equal side plates, unlike the single door Chalcis helms.

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The horn blower from Lucerne doesn't seem unusual, but he's got no canting heraldic charge to draw inspiration from.

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Partlett collars seems to be a common description.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/searc ... %20&title=

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I'm going to be at the MET at the end of June. Despite several attempts to contact the staff of the Arms and Armor department, I have never received any response. Blame COVID, etc. I was really hoping to get a few hours looking at mail sleeves which have no data besides a catalog number. If anyone h...

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More fuel for the fire from Pavel Alekseychik
https://zenodo.org/record/6409308#.YkmHwrdOmxx

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I'm pretty certain "persed" is pursed, like pursed lips, i.e. drawn tight, puckered.

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Looking at the plates, I suspect a "mail and plates" arrangement with the plates connected by strips of mail. I know many others are more knowledgeable of Eastern European and Turkish/Persian armors, so am looking for other opinions. https://www.academia.edu/35868797/A_study_of_lamellar_armour_plate...

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How else to insure the peasants hear what you're telling them? ;) I'm used to vel being "either-or", but this seems to be one of those rare instances where it means "also this". The thorax may have been specifically vague, so that a variety of body armors, in addition the buckram jupons, would meet ...

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From Facebook, another example of buckram jupons, this time from Bavaria. Mart Shearer, there's also the 1244' mention of collars in the Bavarian Territorial Peace, in the item permitting the peasants to wear to church "Thoraces vel ysenhut vel colliria vel juppas de pukramo vel cultrum latinum" - "...

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The examples you have shown use wire rings or staples to attach adjacent scales into horizontal rows. The scale are then sewn to the backing fabric through the four holes at the top, like sewing on a shirt button. Some surviving examples run a piece of twine along the row between the four holes, wit...

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I found a few references in Philippe de Remi, Sire de Beaumanoir's 'Jehan et Blonde', from c.1240. There's an arming sequence beginning at line 3991 (p.260), beginning with, "espaulieres De bouree de soie, mout chieres", then "bacinet", some sort of garland ("galandesche") on the head, and then a "p...

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More on nerves, as I questioned how to translate this.

1322 Inventory of Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, at Wigmore Castle (Ordered by Edward II)

v. capell' de ferro
(5 iron kettle hats)
j. capell' de nervis
(1 kettle hat of sinew?)

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My basic feeling is that they would say "Montauban" in the same way we would say "Stetson" or "Fedora", that is, individual examples might vary, but a general form exists. Aventail still seems a peculiar choice for a brim, unless it's ventilated. Perhaps a downward sloping brim with a rounded skull ...

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Well at least we now have a description! The crest is easy enough to understand, but the aventail leaves me confused. Finding contemporary art might help.

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Among these, almost everyone agrees that aketon is derived from the Arabic word for cotton, and jupon from the Arabic men's gown the jubbah. Pourpoint from French via Latin meaning pricked with a needle is home-grown. The wambeis/gambesons has two schools of thought, the first suggesting it comes fr...

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I still wonder with the "sive" usually being an either/or proposition if the gambesatas (or gamboissed tunics) are not a separate, but functionally equivalent item to the gambeson, or should I be reading "sive" as aka?

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Further, from the same XIII century European Armour FB thread, Nath dos Reis wrote, The oldest mention for the word "gamboised" under a hauberk is 1211 in Gui de Bourgogne. "La coiffe de l'auberc li rompi et faussa et puis le ganbison, si qu'el chief le navra" The coif of the hauberk was torn and cu...

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If I am correct that this entire phrase belongs together, I think it limits the construction. stivelez de plates garnis de teles & de fer & d'acier, ou de l'un ou de l'autre, & de bourre de saye & de coton a souffere Boots of plates (complete with cloth) of iron/steel, either the one or the other, w...

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Merrick tackled the goceons in the Inquiry , where he considers it an aventail, without justification or explanation. A Google search for "goceons" brings back publications from 1707 onwards, though I can't read them on this screen. Perhaps it appears in another document for added context? Perhaps a...

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He wears bragonnieres de maille like Pierre Touremine in 1386. These have a padded lining. Does Tom line his breeches of mail? One dictionary form of this word for "breeches of mail" is braconnière. Inventory of arms, Robert of Béthune,(Robert III), Count of Flanders, 7 Sept 1322, upon his death. I...

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Working from my phone, so I'll have to respond in bits and pieces. The ampersand in the catch phrases seems to be a legal shorthand for either/or. For examples, "You must have a bascinet with visor of iron/steel " All the mail should have an underlayment of "linen/cendal/samite stuffed with sufficie...

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Another good reference for wearing a mail collar (false camail) beneath the bascinet's aventail/(true) camail.

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The Inventory of arms, Robert of Béthune, (Robert III), Count of Flanders, 7 Sept 1322, upon his death contains, Item, un bachinet a visière et le colerete deriere et deus demi visières qui y apertienent. (Item, a bascinet with visor and collar in the back, and two half visors which are related to i...

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In the 13th and 14th centuries, I know of references for helmets and plate armors to be painted, covered with cloth or leather, burnished bright, and varnished. The only mentioning of black is as a fabric cover, or as a prohibition from using black sheepskin.

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PMed him on FB.

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Li Romans de Bauduin de Sebourc , from Hainaut and believed to date to c.1350 continues the use of the aketon beneath mail and plates. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044087008793 Baudouin de Sebourg, Boca, M. L., editor, Valenciennes, De li̓mprimerie de B. Henry, 1841. p.313 271 Il ve...

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