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From the Bedford Missal, British Museum

called Francesco da Cotignola, in the Brera of Milan (Fig. 224)? All the peculiarities of this suit are rendered, the heaviness of the breastplate, the great size of the placate, the quaint little lance-rest placed so high up on the plate, the exact formation of the tuille tassets. Only one feature is missing in the Berne suit, and that is the grandly formed wings of the genouillères. These, we think, have at some later date been altered, at which time the lowest plate of the genouillère would seem to have been removed. This plate was doubtless either pointed, as in the case of the Vienna suit, or of a form to which could be attached a small fringe of mail as represented in the Cotignola picture, a most common affectation in late XVth century armour, especially that of Italy. We say affectation, for it can have