French Cottes: 14th Century Women's Clothing

French Pouch - 1340.

Details: Brown kirtle, trailing on ground, wrist-length sleeves; blue cotte, short sleeves, skirt pulled up and tucked at waist; hair up, possibly in coils over ears.
Saint Clotilda at Prayer - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Cote, sleeves extend over hands; mantle; braids looped at ears.
Torture of Queen Brunhild - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Ground-length cote; braids looped at ears.
Richilda and Louis the Stammerer - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Cote, sleeves extend over hand; mantle with fur (collar?) at shoulders; braids looped at ear; cotes with ermine arm-bands.
Surrender of Constance of Arles - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Cote, trailing on ground, sleeves extend over hand; knee-length mantle with fur (collar?) at shoulders, possible trim at hem; braids looped at ears.
Philip I and His Family - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Shoulderless cote, tightly fitted torso, trailing on ground; braids looped at ears.
Louis VII and his consort praying - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Cote, sleeves extend over hand; mantle with fur shoulder cape; braids looped at ears.
Birth of Saint Louis - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Red kirtle; belt low on hips; white sideless surcoat, opening cut to hip-level; blue kirtle; low hip belt; red and white sideless surcoat with train; braids looped at ears, possible hair also coiled behind ears; black shoes with pointed toes.
Marriage of Charles IV - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Ground-length kirtle; knee-length cote, sleeves extend over hand; mantle with fur-lined hood; braids looped at ears.
Charles IV and Isabella of France - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Shoulderless cote, sleeves extend over hand; mantle with fur-lined hood; braids looped at ears, hair possibly coiled behind ears as well.
Coronation of Jeanne of Bourbon - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Red cote; black shoes with pointed toes.
Charles IV and Jeanne of Bourbon - Grandes Chroniques de France, c. 1350-1380.

Details: Pink shoulderless cote; blue shoulderless cote; grey shoulderless cote; grey sideless surcoat trailing on ground; armscye trimmed with fur; black shoes with pointed toe, mary jane style strap high on instep; grey shoulderless kirtle, sleeves extend over hand; grey sideless surcoat trailing on ground, armscye trimmed with fur, embroidered or woven pattern.
Fol. 6r - Engignart abordant la Courtisane dans un jardin (deux arbres). - Jour dou Jugement - fol. 6r., Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale ms. [M] 579

Details: Red kirtle; hair coiled at ears.
Fol. 7v - La Courtisane et sa Damoiselle dans le jardin de Babylone. - Jour dou Jugement - fol. 7v., Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale ms. [M] 579

Red belted kirtle, trailing on ground; pink kirtle.
Fol. 8r - Un édicule gothique. A l'intérieur le lit précité ou la courtisane s'est assise. La damoiselle est debout à ses côtés. - Jour dou Jugement - fol. 8r.,Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale ms. [M] 579

Details: Red belted kirtle; pink belted kirtle; veil.
Bust of Marie de France - Jean de Liège (Franco-Netherlandish, active in Paris, died 1381).

Details: Circlet; hair looped in braids over ears.
Nativity - (BNF, Lat 18104) fol. 143, John of Berry's Petites Heures, c. 1375-1400.

Details: Blue kirtle; tan sideless surcoat; red ground-length kirtle.
Birth of St. John the Baptist - (BNF, Lat 18104)fol. 207, John of Berry's Petites Heures, c. 1375-1300.

Details: White kirtle; yellow sideless surcoat.
Salome's Dance - (BNF, Lat 18104) fol. 212v, John of Berry's Petites Heures, c. 1375-1400.

Details: Green kirtle, wrist-length sleeves; pink cotte trailing on ground, elbow-length sleeves; circlet; braids looped at ears, back hair coiled at/behind ear; red kirtle, wrist-length sleeves; pink cote, elbow-length sleeves; braids looped at ear, also coils of hair behind ear.
Jeanne de Bourbon - Unknown, 1390.

Details: Kirtle with sleeves that extend over hand; low hip belt; sideless surcoat trailing on ground, wide plastron, skirt gathered on; large, ornate, square buttons on plastron; large cauls or nets over ears.