New Haven BRBL MS 390: Savoy Hours: Women being handed palm frond by a sainted nun
- Published/Created:
- ca. 1300-1399
- Date Depicted:
- 1975
500 AD - 1499 AD - Materials:
- parchment
- Notes:
- The kneeling woman is in a closed circular cape with a slit for the arms. The unbuttoned hood forms a short cape around the shoulders. The figure in gray, a nun, is in a circular cape open at the center front. Both are in a wimple and veil. Orders of nuns
- Abstract:
- The mantle is still a popular overgarment. Normally it is draped over the head; sometimes it is arranged over a shoulder.
- Topics:
- Costume -- Europe -- History -- (LC)
Manuscripts -- France -- 14th century -- (YVRC) - Period/Style:
- Gothic (Medieval)
- Culture:
- French
- Accession Number:
- 4389-035
- Genre:
- costume (mode of fashion) (AAT)
illuminated manuscripts (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
Clothing & Accessories
Paintings & Drawings - Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- 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)
- 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:
- F.36
- OID:
- 10596343
- PID:
- digcoll:1863154