There are many small drawings in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD. Some are fanciful creatures. Some are humanoid. Here are those with human heads, arms & legs and no wings:
Kells: f1v-2r Columns of figures on the frontis-pieces (includes some beard pulling men)
Kells: f4r (upper left) Soldier with spear & buckler in cloak & trews
Kells: f4r (upper right) Soldier with spear & buckler in cloak & trews
Kells: f8r Man in cloak
Kells: f44r Decorated initial letter
Kells: f53v Decorated initial letter
Kells: f68v Decorated initial letter
Kells: f86r Decorated initial letter
Kells: f89r Man in cloak & trews with horse
Kells: f130r Man in long trews
Kells: f200r Soldier with spear & buckler in trews
Kells: f201v Seated man in cloak & robe
Kells: f253v Decorated initial letters
Kells: f255v Monk in cloak & trews with horse
Check the full folios to judge how small these figures are.
Most of the large figures wear robes, but most of these small figures wear trews - to just below the knee.
There is little evidence of ankle length trews. Some of the colouring of those that form initial letters is due to the needs of the letter, such as the blue calf of 68v, so the blue legs of 86r may not be long trews.
130r has the only clear lines under the instep that could be straps attached to long trews, but, some features indicate anatomy instead of edges of clothes, such as lines and circles at ankles and in some the anatomy can be seen under the clothes e.g. 201v.
Is there any other evidence of long trews with straps under the foot? Or is it projected back from a 13th century drawing in 'Chapter House Liber A'?
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Columns of figures on the frontis-pieces in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD
Small drawings in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD
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Illustrations of Irish Costume & Soldiers
Kells: f1v-2r Columns of figures on the frontis-pieces (includes some beard pulling men)
Kells: f4r (upper left) Soldier with spear & buckler in cloak & trews
Kells: f4r (upper right) Soldier with spear & buckler in cloak & trews
Kells: f8r Man in cloak
Kells: f44r Decorated initial letter
Kells: f53v Decorated initial letter
Kells: f68v Decorated initial letter
Kells: f86r Decorated initial letter
Kells: f89r Man in cloak & trews with horse
Kells: f130r Man in long trews
Kells: f200r Soldier with spear & buckler in trews
Kells: f201v Seated man in cloak & robe
Kells: f253v Decorated initial letters
Kells: f255v Monk in cloak & trews with horse
Check the full folios to judge how small these figures are.
Most of the large figures wear robes, but most of these small figures wear trews - to just below the knee.
There is little evidence of ankle length trews. Some of the colouring of those that form initial letters is due to the needs of the letter, such as the blue calf of 68v, so the blue legs of 86r may not be long trews.
130r has the only clear lines under the instep that could be straps attached to long trews, but, some features indicate anatomy instead of edges of clothes, such as lines and circles at ankles and in some the anatomy can be seen under the clothes e.g. 201v.
Is there any other evidence of long trews with straps under the foot? Or is it projected back from a 13th century drawing in 'Chapter House Liber A'?
MIRROR SITE
Columns of figures on the frontis-pieces in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD
Small drawings in The Book of Kells, Ireland, c.800AD
Druzhina
Illustrations of Irish Costume & Soldiers
