I was linked to this french forum by a friend... http://mediaephile.com/forum/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1219063763 ... where I found the images.

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Frankreich, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, 1458, Handschrift, München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
Fouquet, Jean, Buchausstattung.
Antiochus III., König von Syrien, Miniatur (in der Kolumne)
Inventar-Nr. Cod. gall. 6

I think my brain will force me to have a replica of this. if only there was a surviving example of this... Any idea how this would be constructed?

I think he is one of PJs elves.....

Maybe it is textile armour? I cannot imagine it'd work very well over other armour of this time.

RPM

Very reminiscent of the Elve's armour in LotR, particularly the ones with the "nagamaki" like polearm/swords in the battle scene at the start

Well in the movie, that armour was done in one piece, It might be worth considering that because it looks segmented doesnt neccesarily mean the plates slip and slide etc. It might be just a funny way of presenting a more rigid piece of armour.

If it does move, I am willing to bet the plates are mostely attatched to each other in the middle, when you bend, the plates can slide freely and are probab;y partly attatched to each other by leathers not unlike the negmentata.

Considering that the image depicts Antiochus III, the King of Syria, I think that there is a distinct possibility that some of the armour depicted is fanciful, even if the majority of it was contemporary. Note the style of spaulders that the king is wearing - it is a conventional depiction of antique armour, used on ancients, angels, etc. It is also possible that the segmented armour was actually intended to depict a Roman lorica segmentata, considering that Antiochus was defeated by Rome in 192 BC.

Found these "History of Rome" examples on manuscriptminiatures.com which seen to support a textile armor.
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/search/?manus...ne-71-a-17
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Another contemporary model:
http://manuscriptminiatures.com/des-cas-des-n...1901/3073/
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Could this be lmprovised armour from rolled cloth? If you had cloth but no time or skilled tailor around to make a proper jack from it?

Could be. But all these examples look very different to me than the first one that started the thread and looks too precise geometrically to be textile armor.