MINIATURE

MINIATURE OF THE MARTYROLOGY OF DEACON ALBERT KNOWN AS ADONIS CODEX, DATABLE TO 1181 – CATHEDRAL, CREMONA

The feminine skirts with a long train and very wide sleeves lined with vair fur and decorated with rich embroideries, provoke the violent criticism of clerics and writers.: Ugo da Persico, a poet from Lombardy, recalls amongst the most “tiresome” things, that is bothersome “drapi longhi ki pulver mena” (long sleeves which collect dust).