New Haven BRBL MS. 400: De Levis Hours: Flight into Egypt

Creator:
Bedford Master, fl. ca. 1405-1465
Published/Created:
ca. 1400-1420
Date Depicted:
1975
500 AD - 1499 AD
Notes:
A pink cote-hardie with a long skirt. Notice the very long liripipe on the red chaperone.
Abstract:
Middle Gothic dress is largely transitional. Familiar forms develop exaggerations. Necklines are lower. Skirts and sleeves are longer, even dragging on the ground. Shoes are more pointed. Fabrics are lush and saturated with color. Garment edges are finished in cutwork, such as scalloping, dagging, and foliating. Women seem to flutter and sway as they move. The sideless gown is the one important new garment. Sleeveless like a jumper, from under the arms to below the hips it is completely cut away. It is quite long in front and has a train. Extra skirt fullness is gathered into a curved band at the sides. The plastron, a shaped and separate piece decorated with jeweled button trim, is often added to the bodice front. After its life is over as a fashionable gown, it continues as a ceremonial garment.
Variant Titles:
MS. 400
Topics:
Costume -- Europe -- History -- (LC)
Manuscripts -- France -- 15th century -- (YVRC)
Period/Style:
Gothic (Medieval)
Culture:
French
Accession Number:
4389-050
Genre:
costume (mode of fashion) (AAT)
illuminated manuscripts (AAT)
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Clothing & Accessories
Paintings & Drawings
Rights:
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Access Restrictions:
Yale Community Only
Source Creator:
Button, Jeanne and Sbarge, Stephen
Source Title:
History of Costume, In Slides, Notes and Commentaries: Volume 2
Source Created:
New York, NY
Theatre Arts Slide Presentations
1975
Call Number:
GT513 +B87 2 (LC)
Orbis Barcode:
39002051938489
Yale Collection:
Visual Resources Collection
Digital Collection:
Visual Resources Collection
Original Repository:
New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Extent of digitization:
G.1
OID:
10596358
PID:
digcoll:1805896