Sources

Documents and literature from the late middle ages are the core of this site. Here is an index to the sources on clothing and makers.

  1. Rules of the Jupe-Makers of Venice (1219 and later)
  2. Rule of the Crossbow-Makers of Venice (before 1278 to after February 1307/1308)
  3. Rules of the Paris Guilds (1296 and later). Still on old Wordpress site
  4. Health Regime for Students by Petro Fagarola of Valencia (1315)
  5. City Laws of Prague (14th century)
  6. The Baggage of a Student in 1347
  7. Petrarch on Maria of Pozzuoli (November 1343)
  8. The Limburger Chronicle on clothing around 1350
  9. Rules of the Tailors of Paris (1292-1476)
  10. Rules of the Tailors of Troyes (1399/1400)
  11. Statutes of the Tailors of Robes, Cousturiers, and Makers of Pourpoints and Doublets of Meaux (1404)
  12. Rule of the Hosiers of Pontoise (1404)
  13. Rules of the Pourpointiers of Amiens (1429/1430)
  14. le Begue on Painting (1431)
  15. Rule of the Hosiers of Touraine (1447/1448)
  16. Coventry Ordinance on Arms (15 January 1450)
  17. Laws on Having and Bearing Arms at Strassburg (first one transcribed is from 1452)
  18. Ordinance of the Council of Koblenz for the Master Tailor's Exam (1454)
  19. Statutes of the cousturiers of Caen, June 1455: Ordonnances des rois de France, vol. xiv, pp. 360-363 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k108685w/f395.item coming when I can transcribe it
  20. Rule of the Tailors of Poitiers (1461) coming when I can transcribe it
  21. Rule of the Pourpointiers and Tailors of Bordeaux (1462) coming when I can transcribe it
  22. Rule of the Tailors of Abbeville (c. 1480) coming when I can transcribe it
  23. Rules of the Armourers and Scabbardmakers of Angers (1488)
  24. Rule of the Tailors, Hosiers, and Doublet-Makers of Seville (1522) coming when I can transcribe it, see pp. 361-371 of 570 of http://bvpb.mcu.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=451883 (1527 printing) or fol. 163-169 of http://www.bibliotecavirtualdeandalucia.es/catalogo/consulta/registro.cmd?id=8495 (1632 reprint)
  25. Negotiations for a Norwich Levy, 1542
  26. Ordinance of the pourpointiers of Granada (1541) coming when I can transcribe it, see p. 151 of Ordenanzas que los muy ilustres y muy magnificos señores Granada ... (1552, reprinted 1672) https://books.google.com/books?id=JmpNk9eRGuAC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
  27. Ordinance of the hosiers of Granada (1546) coming when I can transcribe it, see Ordenanzas que los muy ilustres y muy magnificos señores Granada ... (1552, reprinted 1672) https://books.google.com/books?id=JmpNk9eRGuAC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false pp. 220v-222v

Here is an index to the sources on arming.

  1. Libro di Montaperti (Florence, 1260)
  2. Challenge of the Viscount of Rohan to the Seigneur of Beaumanoir (7 April 1309)
  3. Lydgate, Troy Book (begun 1412, finished 1420) Still on old Wordpress site
  4. Letter of Charles VI of France authorizing all citizen and foreign merchants to import and sell arms and armour at Paris (1412) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k108681c/f15.item
  5. Johan Hill, Treatise of the Points of Worship in Arms (abandoned 1434)
  6. The French Treatise on Military Costume (1446-1448)
  7. How a man schall be armyd at his ese when he schal fighte on foote (c. 1460 to 1486)
  8. Letter of Martin Rondelle to Sir John Paston (28 August 1473)
  9. The Apparel for the Field (England, c. 1480-1510) A list of things a lord or wealthy knight should bring to war

I also have some collections of information about surviving objects from the middle ages. If it is more a 'catalogue' than an argument, it goes under sources rather than essays.

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