Medieval and Renaissance Garters

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Images showing the use of garters on various types of hose. Buckles and tips from the garters found in the tomb of Queen Aregonde, c. 570 Garter, London, early 14th century Sword-fighting, Corpus iuris civilis (UBG 32, fol. 91v), first half of the 14th century A man, Sermons (UBG 730, fol. 49v), first half of the 14th century Marginal illustrations on fols. 60r, 87r, 158v, 170v, and an archer, the Luttrell Psalter (British Library Add. 42130, fol. 170v), c. 1325-1335 Byneþe here hamme upon a hose gray, y-bounde is ţat dame wyþ a garter grey, here legges faste to ty3te here hose “Þo oure lord god …”, PML M.957, c. 1400 Killing an adulterer, Concordantiae caritatis (SBL 151, fol. 244v), c. 1349-1351 The rape of Dinah, Egerton Genesis Picture Book (British Library Egerton 1894, fol. 17), third quarter of the 14th century The greeting of Willehalm and Rennewart, Willehalm (ÖNB 2643, fol. 185r), 1387 Badge: a hunter, late 14th century Fols. 3v, 4r, 4v, 5r, 5v, 6r, 6v, 7r, 7v, 8v, 9r, 9v, 10v, 11r, and 11v, Il fior di battaglia / Fiore dei Liberi (PML M.383), early 15th century Tedaldo returns to Florence disguised as a pilgrim in the Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070, fol. 120r), 1432 The drunkenness of Noah, Weltchronik (ÖNB 2823, fol. 21r), 1463 And the comouns weren no wolen, but yf it be a powvere cote undir thair uttermest garnement, made of grete caunvas, and callid a frokke. Thair hausyn beth of lyke caunvas, and passyn not thair kne, wherfore thai beth gartered and ther theis bare. Thair wyfes and childeren gone barefote; thai mowe in non otherwyse leve. Sir John Forescue’s description of French customs, The Governance of England, c. 1475 A woman (the letter R on the third row), the Hours of Charles d’Angoulême (BNF Latin 1173, fol. 52r), c. 1475-1500 A suspicious husband maltreats his wife, Le roman de la rose (Douce 195, fol. 66v), end of the 15th century The stoning of St. Stephen, 1502 Flight into Egypt by Albrecht Dürer, 1503-1504 Nativity, 1505 The bearing of the Cross, a prayerbook (ÖNB 3257, fol. 20v), 1505 The martyrdom of St. Catherine on an alterpiece at Poniky in Slovakia, 1512

Garters

Images showing the use of garters on various types of hose.

Buckles and tips from the garters found in the tomb of Queen Aregonde, c. 570
Garter, London, early 14th century
Sword-fighting, Corpus iuris civilis (UBG 32, fol. 91v), first half of the 14th century
A man, Sermons (UBG 730, fol. 49v), first half of the 14th century
Marginal illustrations on fols. 60r, 87r, 158v, 170v, and an archer, the Luttrell Psalter (British Library Add. 42130, fol. 170v), c. 1325-1335

Byneþe here hamme upon a hose gray,
y-bounde is ţat dame wyþ a garter grey,
here legges faste to ty3te here hose

“Þo oure lord god …”, PML M.957, c. 1400

Killing an adulterer, Concordantiae caritatis (SBL 151, fol. 244v), c. 1349-1351
The rape of Dinah, Egerton Genesis Picture Book (British Library Egerton 1894, fol. 17), third quarter of the 14th century
The greeting of Willehalm and Rennewart, Willehalm (ÖNB 2643, fol. 185r), 1387
Badge: a hunter, late 14th century
Fols. 3v, 4r, 4v, 5r, 5v, 6r, 6v, 7r, 7v, 8v, 9r, 9v, 10v, 11r, and 11v, Il fior di battaglia / Fiore dei Liberi (PML M.383), early 15th century
Tedaldo returns to Florence disguised as a pilgrim in the Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070, fol. 120r), 1432
The drunkenness of Noah, Weltchronik (ÖNB 2823, fol. 21r), 1463

And the comouns weren no wolen, but yf it be a powvere cote undir thair uttermest garnement, made of grete caunvas, and callid a frokke. Thair hausyn beth of lyke caunvas, and passyn not thair kne, wherfore thai beth gartered and ther theis bare. Thair wyfes and childeren gone barefote; thai mowe in non otherwyse leve.

Sir John Forescue’s description of French customs, The Governance of England, c. 1475

A woman (the letter R on the third row), the Hours of Charles d’Angoulême (BNF Latin 1173, fol. 52r), c. 1475-1500
A suspicious husband maltreats his wife, Le roman de la rose (Douce 195, fol. 66v), end of the 15th century
The stoning of St. Stephen, 1502
Flight into Egypt by Albrecht Dürer, 1503-1504
Nativity, 1505
The bearing of the Cross, a prayerbook (ÖNB 3257, fol. 20v), 1505
The martyrdom of St. Catherine on an alterpiece at Poniky in Slovakia, 1512