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It looks rather like a modern Trappist habit - except that Trappists as such
didn't exist then, so some sort of Cistercian, I suppose. And Trappists
don't have the white capuce thingy, afaik. How odd.
Helen Brown
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> The URL above goes to a supposed illustration of Vincent of Beauvais (BL
> Royal MS. 14.E.1, 15th c) I ran across browsing a book on
> illuminations. Vincent, as is well-known, was a Dominican friar. Yet
> this is in no way a Dominican habit. Indeed, I don't know what religious
> order has this sort of habit. It is as if the proper colors were
> completely reversed. My experience is that at least later medieval MSS
> are careful about such details. Any speculations about this strange garb
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