Re: cuir boile Gauntlets?

[Jürgen Gäbel]

Hi Brent,
I can't find these sentence on the page.
Are you sure about this title or the page [Voyage d'Outremer, p. 227]?
Maybe they mean gloves that are covered with boiled leather.
Cheers
Juergen

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>>Clifford Rogers asked about an interesting passage in Bertrandon de la
>>Broquerie (1439) discussing what armor to wear on crusade. He says footme=
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>>should all have their hands armored, "and I'd just as soon have the
>>gauntlets that are made in Germany of cuyr boully as others." [Voyage
>>d'Outremer, p. 227]
>>The passage is.
>>et au regart de moy, je auroye aussi cher des ganteletz que on fait en
>>Allemaigne de cuyr boully que d'autres.
>>
>>Anyone shed any light on this?
>>
>>