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Mœurs, usages et costumes au moyen âge : et à l'époque de la renaissance

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · 1874 · Paris : Firmin Didot · 388 pictures

Paul Lacroix's survey of medieval and Renaissance manners, customs and dress, published by Firmin Didot in Paris in 1874 for general French readers and antiquarians. Its 388 wood-engraved plates copy fifteenth- and sixteenth-century woodcuts and manuscript scenes: dancers and musicians, court tribunals, workshops and armourers, processions of figures in hoods, houppelandes and pointed shoes, drawn in clean outline with light hatching.

Manners and customs · Middle Ages · Renaissance · Costume

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