Re: cuir boile Gauntlets?

[Jürgen Gäbel]

Like this one:
http://rivetedchainmail.pl/gauntlet_15.html

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Gesendet: 29.05.2010 03:35:18
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Betreff: cuir boile Gauntlets?

>Clifford Rogers asked about an interesting passage in Bertrandon de la
>Broquerie (1439) discussing what armor to wear on crusade. He says footmen
>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?
>
>