Kel Rekuta wrote: | ||
That would be great Robert! Always looking to add to my library. :) BTW, could you reference the image you included. I believe it is Italian but I don't recognize the piece. |
Unfortunately I don't quite remember what the source of that image was...I do know that I found it here on the myArmoury forums. I don't have terribly long to post at the moment, but I'll throw in a few bits of 14th c. manuscript art I found interesting. Most of these are high resolution and too large to post directly, so I'll just include a few links...
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...l/2-22.jpg
The first is from Queste del Saint Graal / Tristan de Léonois (Milan, 1380-1385) and features a man who has been disrobed and is either resting or dead. You can see his arming garment and undershirt on the left and his bascinet, great helm, and other assorted pieces on his right. The great helm appears to be smaller than his bascinet, which I found strange considering that they seem to usually be worn over the bascinet with the visor removed. Is there another document way of wearing a great helm this late?
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/queste-del-sa...ncais/104/
This one's from the same manuscript (which is turning out to be one of my favorites) and depicts a melee at tournament. Lots of fantastic looking swords (Types XV and XVIII) with some very nice looking scent stopper pommels. More amazing looking great helms and surcoats. It appears that wearing surcoats of damask and other rich designs as opposed to traditional coat of arms forms was a popular stylistic alternative.
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...l/2-12.jpg
Another from the same manuscript. This one features a great helm suspended from a buckle on the back of the knight's surcoat. He's wearing what appears to be a cervelliere or very short bascinet. To answer my own question from the previous commentary, these cervellieres appear to be worn only when a great helm is being worn. You can see in the following two images that the visored bascinets look quite distinct from the skull caps worn with great helms. I'm not quite sure whether these are also worn beneath the great helm or if that was restricted to the cervelliere-esque form. Quite conveniently, the two bottom images are of the same knight wearing both types of bascinet show. The bottom one's shape seems much more suited to go beneath a great helm as it lacks the rather aggressive point present on his regular bascinet. For the record, this man is the same one featured in the disrobed image, with the bascinet larger than his great helm.
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...al/2-7.jpg
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...l/2-13.jpg
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...l/2-14.jpg
This image features a visored great helm, which I was not aware had stuck around until the 1380's.
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...l/2-24.jpg
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...l/2-21.jpg
Here's some interesting bascinet visors c. 1389 from Codex Vindobonensis 2762 - Wenzel Bible.
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat.../328-6.jpg
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...328-64.jpg
(This one has a some rather confusing garments as well)
Another from the same source. I particularly like the bascinet with the white feather crest. It reminds me of my own unique bascinet, which I am currently having recreated for me.
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/static/miniat...328-46.jpg
I will also post my new helm in this thread when it is completed in about a week. It will look nearly identical to the one I owned previously (seen below), but with a few minor aesthetic upgrades as well as some major metallurgical updates. The coronet is going to feature custom cast brass rose rivets in order to coincide with the ancestral English coat of arms I've chosen.
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I will try to post some more images in a bit.