Burgundian Noblemen's Underclothes c1445-1475
Burgundian Noblemen's Underclothes c1445-1475
Burgundian Noblemen's Underclothes c1445-1475
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Arguments for the high round neckline with an off-center slit<br />
I found multiple pictures of a shirt that looked like it had a slit slightly to the (wearer’s)<br />
front left (see pictures below).<br />
Figure 5.28<br />
Paris, muse du petit palais<br />
L Dut 456 fol18v, Bourgogne<br />
This may be showing a neckline<br />
with a slit or it may be showing a<br />
fold of fabric at the neck.<br />
Figure 5.29<br />
P. de Crescens, Le Rustican,<br />
about 1460.<br />
This is a 15th century French<br />
illustration of an agricultural<br />
treatise by a 14th century<br />
Italian naturalist, Peter of<br />
Crescenzi<br />
Figure 5.30<br />
Folie de Lancelot<br />
BNF Richelieu Manuscrits<br />
Français 116, Fol. 598v<br />
Lancelot du Lac, France, Ahun,<br />
XVe siècle, Évrard d'Espinques<br />
et collaborateurs<br />
There are two extant garments that have an off-center slit in the neck hole, but neither of<br />
them is remotely close to the <strong>Burgundian</strong> time-period:<br />
Figure 5.31<br />
Image Copyright © I. Marc Carlson 2003<br />
Front panels of the Gown of St. Elizabeth of Thuringia,<br />
dated to about 1230.<br />
Figure 5.32<br />
Image Copyright © I. Marc Carlson 2002<br />
This shirt was supposedly owned by Thomas Becket (1120-1170)<br />
and is now in the Cathedral of Arras<br />
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