This page deals with images of men and women wearing a garment presently known as a “gardecorps,” a fairly loose outerwear garment with an opening where the sleeve joins the body.

For a pattern, see Gardecorps, 1250; for notes on the construction of a lady’s gardecorps, see Eva’s pink gardecorps.

• A physician in a medical miscellany (St John’s College, Cambridge, MS D.24, fol. 59v), 13th century
• Many images in the Maciejowski Bible (PML M.638), c. 1250
• Several in The Life of St. Edward the Confessor (Cambridge University Library MS Ee.3.59), c. 1250-1260
• Aldobrandino of Sienna, Le Régime du corps (Brit. Lib. Sloane 2435, fol. 1), third quarter of the 13th century (perhaps c. 1285)
• The Woman Clothed in the Sun (Getty Ludwig III 1, fol. 19v), c. 1255-1260
• Several images in the Murthly Hours (NLS 21000), 1280s
ffurst þer sit an old cherl in a blake hure,
of alle þat þer sitteþ semeþ best syre,
      ant leyþ ys leg o-lonke.
An heme in an herygoud wiþ honginde sleuen,
& mo þen fourti him by-fore my bales to breuen,
      In sunnes 3ef y songe.

Satire on the Consistory Courts (1307),
Poems from Harley MS. 2253
(Historical Poems of the XIVth and XVth Centuries)

• A queen (?) riding a horse, Lancelot Cycle (Ashmole 828, fol. 1r), beginning of the 14th century
• Several images, mostly of physicians, in the Articella (Brit. Lib. Harley 3140), first quarter of the 14th century
• Herr Ulrich von Gutenburg (fol. 73r), Herr Wachsmut von Mühlhausen (fol. 183v), Herr Bruno von Hornberg (fol. 251r), Herr Günther von dem Vorste (fol. 314v), The Manesse Codex (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 848), c. 1300-1330
• The Queen of Sheba visits Solomon, Bible historiale (PML M.322, fol. 189v), c. 1325
• St. Cosmas and St. Damian, The Golden Legend (BNF Fr. 241, fol. 258), 1348