Interesting! This armour and a number of other items are evidently on loan
to the Frazier Museum from the Royal Armouries. Here's a
not-so-historically-accurate article on the topic from Louisville Magazine:
http://www.mjfreelancer.com/?p=19. Also see
http://www.fraziermuseum.org/takeatour3.asp#tudor, and click on "Tudor" on
the map to see a photo of the burgonet.
I'd want to hear more about that attribution to Sidney, though. Might be a
fanciful piece of salesmanship on the part of the Frazier Museum. When you
go to the Royal Armouries' excellent online collections catalog,
http://collections.royalarmouries.org/, there are no entries under "Sidney."
This particular burgonet is in the catalog, but is simply attributed to its
engraver, Adrian Collaert. (They have lots and lots of stuff belonging to
Leicester, though. Check it out.)
Sorry to cast cold water on anyone's desire to look around Zutphen with a
metal detector for those matching cuisses!
Katherine
Katherine Eggert
Associate Professor of English
University of Colorado
226 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0226
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Subject: Re: the surprise at the Frazier International History Museum (fwd)
Penshurst has an armor museum -- I'm not sure what's there, but I wonder
if they know about this? Germaine
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