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 notes on the construction of the gardecorps, see Eva’s pink gardecorps, Meredith Barter's Maciejowski cotte, a woman's gown from c. 1250, Ein Gardecorps, or a gardecorps pattern.
- 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
- Jaquier Lisain, 1250
- Thiebauz Rupez, 1250
- Several in The Life of St. Edward the Confessor (Cambridge University Library MS Ee.3.59), c. 1250-1260
- Michel Papelart, 1258
- Pierre du Frêne, 1262
- 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
- Several images in the Hispano-Moresque Haggadah (British Library Oriental 2737), c. 1300
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
- Women in hunt scenes on fols. 151r and 152v; men on fols. 173v, 189r, 201v, 202v, and 203v of the Queen Mary Psalter (British Library Royal 2 B VII), c. 1310-1320
- 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
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