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PARTI-COLORED GARMENTS OF THE 13th Century
(1200-1299)
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FIG.1 |
I
had recently been asking around to find out if parti-colored garments were
used in my time period [roughly anywhere from 1100-1250ish]. I was told
that it didn't appear until about 1320s or so when the cotehardie came
into fashion [that being a tunic that buttoned top to bottom in the front
instead of a pull-over tunic with only neck-hole buttons].
I
found this while looking through my Maciejowski Bible copy <
Old Testament Miniatures
> which is estimated to be penned about 1250. This first image has a
young court man playing the viol in a parti-colored one piece tunic with
dagging on the bottom and a center split from waste to hem. <
Folio 17 Recto 114
>
see: Fig.1 |
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Later
in the panels, <
Folio 29 Recto 176
> celebrating David's win over Goliath, the upper left panel has
many women playing musical instruments, though I feel the parti-colored
one is a courtly gentleman or minstrel playing the viol. No where in the
book are legs of a woman shown so high up in garb [exceptions are a few
death scenes and the Eden portion of the book where they are nude]. I feel
this is a male figure playing the viol as in Recto 114 above. Again, he is
parti-colored, with dagging on the hem and no buttons to be seen making me
believe this is still a one-piece tunic with tight fitting sleeves
<ruling out it is a surcoat of sorts> and the vertical seam is open
from the waste down in the front <which is very inconsistent with
warrior, court and worker's garb in the book>.
I think there may have been parti-colored tunics in the 1250s in France,
as to the extent, that is unknown until I find more sources. see:
Fig.2 |
FIG.2
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| After looking through the
entire Maciejowski Bible <
Old Testament Miniatures
>, I have surmised it may indeed have occurred in court styled
garb of the 1200s but only on minstrels and entertainers of the time. It
had yet to come into fashion as a everyday item though I am still
looking to determine more sources on that topic and also whether of not
this same theme may have been used on knightly surcoats. Bran~ |
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