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An external image Image of a man in fashionable clothing from the First Book of Fashion Breastplate

Maximilian and his Armourer Conral Seusenhofer

From "The Armourer and his Craft" by C.J. Ffoulkes.

The First Book of Fashion

Page 103

Manuscript page 52 Recto

Breastplate circa 1510-20

inv. num. A-281