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address (E ix, fol. 21) in Latin verse to Robert of Anjou from the town of Prato, in Tuscany, executed about 1335-1340, in which is depicted a knight (Fig. 414) fully armed in the reinforced chain mail of the time. He is armed with a sword and dagger, remarkable in their detail. On his head is represented the chapel-de-fer, with an almost conical skull-piece and sloping brim worn over the coif of mail.

Fig. 417. Chapel-de-fer

Probably Burgundian, about 1450-90. Ex collection: Signor Ressman, now Metropolitan Museum of New York

M. Viollet-le-Duc in his erudite work, the Dictionnaire du Mobilier Français, reconstructs various interesting types of the chapel-de-fer from contemporary illuminations.

Fig. 418. Chapel-de-fer

Spanish type, about 1460-90. Collection: Sir Edward Barry, Bart.

Fig. 418a. Chapel-de-fer

About 1460-90. The Rotunda Museum, Woolwich

With the advent of the XVth century we can expect to find actual head-pieces that tally with the pictorial descriptions of the chapawe. Of these