Hi,
I found this disembodied image on Pinterest, it appears to be from a book which I'd now like to add to my library. Does anybody know the title/ISBN of the book it is from?

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To answer my own question, in case it helps anybody else. It's this edition of 'Medieval Military Costume' by Gerry Embleton:

https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Military-Costume-Author-published/dp/B00Y2RV4Q6

There are later editions and variants of this book that replace the drawings with pictures or re-enactors in pretty decent kit but it's not as good as these drawings. The bit about padded jacks stuffed with tow fibre was new to me. People keep telling me padded jacks were stuffed exclusively with cotton but the English apparently used tow which is logical since it is a waste product of flax processing and the Lübeck jack is stuffed with wool which also makes sense since the Lübeck merchants moved wool out of Scandinavia by the dozens of shiploads .

According to Jessica Finley ("The Lübeck Wappenröcke: Distinctive Style in Fifteenth-Century German Fabric Armor" in Medieval Clothing and Textiles 13) the Lübeck garment was stuffed with cotton, rather than wool. The Black Prince's jupon was apparently stuffed with wool (it was originally said to be cotton, but the examiner changed this to wool in a later paper), and the Rothwell Jack also used wool in between the linen layers, so it was used to some extent. It would be interesting to know exactly how common it was used, but I'm not sure we can tell unless Sean's uncovered some records of wool being used.

Who is Embleton citing for the use of tow?

Hi Johnathan. Regarding the Black Prince's jupon, wasn't it stuffed with cotton wool? Cotton wool is what we in the UK and Ireland call a kind of loose cotton, which has often led to confusion with people thinking that it's a type of wool.

Yep. "Cotton wool" is unspun cotton. It has nothing to do with wool.

Thanks for the clarification Johnathan.

Those illustrations are from the Osprey books.

I would take those illustrations with a huge grain of salt. The Osprey books offer no verifiable references from which those illustrations are derived.

A is also very clearly from the Morgan Bible, although the way in which the sleeves attach/do not belong to a separate under layer is an odd interpretation of the very clear manuscript style.

Does it say where B is from?

B is a fantasy drawing. None of the other cross-hatched items are gambesons or padded jacks - they are jacks of plate.

For comparison to an original, here is the Adoration of the Magi from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, the source for image N posted above.

http://www.warfare.gq/15/Adoration_Magi-Hours...ouquet.jpg

This brigandine appears to be the source for illustration J

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Armouries catalogue number III.1663. Italian 1470-1480. This is it as reconstructed from a fragmented original.