The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century

Chapter 35: POLYGLOT GLOSSARY OF WORDS DEALING WITH ARMOUR AND WEAPONS

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A comprehensive compilation of practical and documentary evidence on medieval and early modern armour-making, presenting descriptions of tools, materials, and workshop processes alongside the regulations that controlled the trade. The text surveys iron and steelworking, construction techniques, proofing, decoration, maintenance, and the use of fabrics and leather in wearing armour. Institutional material covers guild ordinances, company records, lists of European armourers, makers’ marks, and short biographies, while diagrams, plates, translated documents, and a polyglot glossary clarify technical terminology and contemporary treatises on craft practice.

POLYGLOT GLOSSARY OF WORDS DEALING WITH ARMOUR AND WEAPONS

The meanings of the words in this Glossary are given either from comparison of various scattered entries in contemporary documents or from the following works:—

Boeheim. Waffenkunde. 1890.
Cotgrave. Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. 1611. C.
Du Cange. Glossaire Français. Edit. 1879.
Florio. A Worlde of Woordes. 1598. F.
Gay. Glossaire Archéologique, A-G (never completed). 1887. G.
Harford. English Military Discipline. 1680. H.
Meyrick. Antient Armour (glossary). 1842.
Roquefort. Glossaire de la Langue Romaine. 1808. R.
Valencia. Catalogue of Real Armeria, Madrid.

Where no reference letter is given the meaning given is that generally accepted at the present day.

The names of the different parts of the suit of plate armour are given in English; French, German, and Italian and Spanish are given on pp. 110, 111.