THE HISTORY OF COSTUME - TEXT INDEX #1
By Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880



Plate #1 - Egyptians, Moors, Turks

a) Ancient Egyptian King, Egyptian Commoners
b) Moorish Princes
c) Turkish Official and Two Noblemen
d) Turkish Women



Plate #2 - Ancient Near East - Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian

a) Assyrian High Priest, Assyrian King
b) Persian Nobility
c) Noblewoman, Egyptian Queen, Noblewoman
d) Egyptian Court Official, Egyptian King, Fanbearer



Plate #3 - Ancient Near East - Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian

a) Commoner, Assyrian Court Official, Assyrian Noblemen
b) Assyrian Soldier with Standing Shield, Soldier with Small Shield, Archer
c) Persian Soldiers, Persian Nobleman
d) Mede Nobleman, Persian Nobleman, Persian



Plate #4 - Ancient Judah

a) Jewish Noblemen
b) Jewish Noblewomen
c) Soldiers, Jewish King
d) High Priest, Levite - Church Officials



Plate #5 - Ancient Greece

a) Priestess, Noblewomen
b) Greek Soldiers - Generals
c) Olympic Victor, Priest of Bacchus, Greek King
d) Greek Country People



Plate #6 - Ancient Rome

a) Standard Bearer (German), Roman General
b) Roman Soldiers
c) Noblewomen, Slave Girl
d) Roman Lictor, Emperor, Nobleman



Plate #7 - Ancient Germans - The Teutonic Tribes

a) The Stone Age
b) The Bronze Age
c) Beginning of the Christian Era
d) Third and Fourth Centuries AD



Plate #8 - Fourth to the Sixth Centuries

a) Christians
b) Christians
c) Arabs
d) Arabs



Plate #9 - Byzantine Empire

a) Page, Byzantine Emperor
b) Servant, Byzantine Empress and Princess
c) Soldier and Chancellor
d) Deacon, Bishop, Levite - Church Official



Plate #10 - Sixth Century - Byzantine Empire

a) Early 6th Century
b) Early 6th Century
c) Attendants and Empress Theodora (547)
d) Emperor Jusinian (482-565), Empress Theodora (d. 548)



Plate #11 - Fifth to Tenth Centuries and Ancient Egypt

a) Soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire
b) Frankish Ladies, Charlemagne
c) Frankish Court Dress
d) Ancient Egyptian Soldiers, Egyptian King In Battle Attire, Charioteer



Plate #12 - Carolingians



Plate #13 - Tenth Century - France

a) Frankish King and Queen
b) Frankish Noblewomen
c) King Charles the Bald
d) Emperor Henry II, Frankish Bishop



Plate #14 - Eleventh Century

a) Monk, Bishop, Priest
b) Frankish King and Queen
c) Norman Ladies, Norman Noblewoman
d) Knights and soldiers - First Crusade



Plate #15 - Twelfth Century

a) Servant, Roman Pope, King
b) German Noblewomen, German Middle Class Woman
c) Squire and Knight - First Crusade
d) Commoner, Rich Jew, Knight



Plate #16 - Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Military and Religious Orders

a) Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers) - Females
b) Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers) - Males
c) Master and Knight of the Teutonic Order
d) Templars - Knights



Plate #17 - Thirteenth Century - German and Italian

a) German Prince, German Ladies
b) German Knight and Family
c) Italian Scholars, German Middle-Class Woman
d) Knight, Prince, Templar - Knight



Plate #18 - Fourteenth Century German

a) Knightly Dress (2nd Half of Century), Gunther von Schwarzburg - King of Germany (1349)
b) Court of Orlamunde (Mid-Century), Court of Katzenellenbogen (1315), Heinrich of Seinsjeim
c) Rudolph of Sachsenhausen (1370), Soldiers (2nd Half of Century)
d) Konrad of Bikenbach (1393), Gudela of Holzhausen, Weikhard Frosch (1378)



Plate #19 - Fourteenth Century - England

a) 1365, 1330, 1350, 13100
b) 1365, 1376 (Middle-Class Dress)
c) 1350 (Merchant), 1350-1360 (Nobleman)
d) 1330-1370



Plate #20 - Fourteenth Century

a) Prince and Knight
b) Princess and Lady-In-Waiting
c) Knight and Noble Maiden
d) German Patricians



Plate #21 - Fourteenth Century

a) German Chatelaine, Knight in Hunting Dress
b) Nobleman, Townsman
c) Ladies-In-Waiting, English Princess
d) Prince, Page, Nobleman



Plate #22 - Second Half of the Fourteenth Century - Italy

a) Vittore Pisani - Venetian Admiral Died1380, Squire, Neapolitan Knight
b) Soldiers
c) Italian Girl, Noblewoman, Lady of Siena
d) Young Man, Roman Senator, Venetian Nobleman



Plate #23 - First Half of the Fifteenth Century

a) Florentine Noblewomen
b) Florentine Noblemen
c) German Noblewomen
d) French Noblemen



Plate #24 - First Half of the Fifteenth Century

a) Burgundian Court Dress
b) German Court Dress
c) German Citizens
d) Judge, Townsman, Peasant



Plate #25 - Fifteenth Century - Italy

a) Mid 1400, Apothecary (1st Half 1400)
b) Italian Podesta - Chief Magistrate, Sexton, Soldier
c) Mid 1400, End 1400
d) Lord of Rimini (1488), Beatrice d'Este (14100)



Plate #26 - Fifteenth Century - France

a) 1460-1480
b) 1460-1480
c) 1460-1480
d) Woman's Dress (1480), Charles the Bold (1477)



Plate #27 - Fifteenth Century - France and England

a) England (1400)
b) France (1470)
c) England (1st Third of Century)
d) Henry VII of England, Duke of Suffolk (1470), Henry VI (1471), Duchess of Suffolk (1470)



Plate #28 - Mid-Fifteenth Century - Burgundy

a) Charles the Bold



Plate #29 - Fifteenth Century - Germany

a) Lower Rhine Dress (1400)
b) Philippe of Ingelheim (1431), Martin of Seinsheim (1434), About 1410
c) Lady's Dress (Mid 1400), Townsman of Ravensburg (1429),
Knight of Stettenberg (1428)
d) Mid 1400.



Plate #30 Fifteenth Century - Swiss Military Costume

a) Standard-Bearer, Piper, Drummer
b) Executioner, Captain, Boy
c) Infantrymen
d) Sergeant, Mounted Soldier, Rifleman



Plate #31 - Second Half of the Fifteenth Century

a) French Dress
b) French Dress
c) German Citizens
d) German Citizens



Plate #32 - Second Half of the Fifteenth Century - Burgundy and Holland

a) Holland (1470-1485)
b) Burgundy (1470)
c) Burgundy (1470)
d) Burgundy (1470)



Plate #33 - Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

a) German Knight and Noblewoman (Mid-15th Century)
b) Prince and Princess (1st Third of 16th Century)
c) German Townswoman and Townsman in Armor
(1st Third of 16th Century)
d) Knight and Noblewoman (1st Third of 16th Century)



Plate #34 - First Third of the Sixteenth Century

a) French Noblewoman and Page
b) German Magistrate and Knight
c) German Citizen Women
d) German Citizen Women



Plate #35 - First Third of the Sixteenth Century - Germany

a) German Nobility
b) German Citizens
c) Citizens
d) Citizens



Plate #36 - First Third of the Sixteenth Century - Germany

a) German Townspeople
b) German Soldiers
c) German Soldiers
d) German Townspeople



Plate #37 - First Third of the Sixteenth Century - Germany

a) German Scholar and Townswoman
b) German Soldiers with Snow Shoes
c) German Soldiers - Mountaineers
d) German Peasants



Plate #38 - First Third of the Sixteenth Century - German Military Dress

a) Soldiers
b) Drummer, Stand-Bearer
c) Piper, Sergeant
d) Captain, Lieutenant



Plate #39 - Mid-Sixteenth Century - Germany

a) Noblewoman (1565-1570)
b) Cavalryman, Cavalry General - Under Charles V (1560), Lady
c) Nobleman (1570), Citizen of Nuremberg In Festive Dress (1588)
d) Standard-Bearer (About 1570), Traveling Musicians



Plate #40 - Late Sixteenth Century - Germany

a) Woman from Rostock, Councilman and Lady from Wismar (1590), Man from Dithmarschen
b) Pomerania (1590)
c) Merchant and Peasants from Rostock (1590)
d) Girl from Ockholm, Man and Woman from Pomerania (1590)



Plate #41 - Sixteenth Century - Italy

a) Rome and Siena
b) Florence and Padua
c) Venetian Senator and Noblewoman
d) Venetian Doge and Dogaressa - Chief Magistrate



Plate #42 - Late Sixteenth Century - Italy

a) Neapolitans (1583)
b) Burial in Padua (1583)
c) Students in Padua (1583), Peasant Woman
d) Venice (1583), Milan, Florence



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