The entrance of tournament judges, juges diseurs, to a town.
The entrance of the judges, juges diseurs, to a town. The lead judge wears a black cap, scarlet simar, and rides a horse in a caparison of scarlet with white band and blue bridle. The second judge has a black hat with plume, scarlet coat over yellow doublet, and rides a horse with a white caparison with scarlet bands. Their squire wears blue cap, green doublet, pink stockings and black cracows (pointed shoes). From an illustration by Barthelemy d'Eyck in Rene of Anjou's Tournament Book, 1488. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries, Levy Fils, Paris, 1861.
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