Collars and Leashes
"The Dog in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Body types, uses and accoutrements", by THL Peryn Rose Whytehorse, Meridies -[[1]]
Leeds Castle Dog Collar Museum -
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A nice photostream from Leeds Castle - [[3]]
Interesting antique collars, unfortunately post-period - [[4]]
AKC Museum of the Dog in St. Louis, MO, apparently has some "antique collars".@http://www.museumofthedog.org/index.html
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Mediaeval Collars for the Modern Dog, by Alianora Munro (link from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
Try also images from some early French hunting manuals:
Gaston Phoebus, Book of the Hunt, Bibliothèque Nationale MS Fr 616 (15th c.)
Jacques Du Fouilloux, La Venerie (1561)
Dog Collars and Leashes in period images - http://larsdatter.com/dog-collar-leashes.htm (Medieval & Renaissance Material Culture website)
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#x--14th Century:#x--Period Examples:14th Century:
Luttrell Psalter (Brit. Lib. Add. 42130, fol. 64v), c. 1325-1340, coupled hounds on an around-the-body leash?
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| Taymouth Book of Hours, British Library Yates Thompson MS 13, 2nd quarter 14th century, f72r | |
| f. 72r: Bas-de-page scene of a lady walking towards a tower, carrying rabbits on a stick in one hand, and leading two hounds from an around-the-body leash in the other |
Book of Modus and Ratio// (BNF Fr. 12399), 1379: [a hind] (fol. 18v), [a boar] (fol. 23), [a boar] (fol. 23v), and Hunting a hare (fol. 43v)
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15th Century:
Gaston Phoebus Book of the Hunt, c1407, BNF MS 616
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Gaston Phoebus Book of the Hunt, c1410, [M.1044, fol. 45]
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| January from the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1412-1416 | York Minster, c 1414, Lady Beatrice Ros |
[Adoration of the Magi] by Gentile da Fabriano, 1423 - dog with muzzle
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| Head of a muzzled dog by Antonio Pisanello, c. 1420-1450 |
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| Tristan and the shepherds, Tristan de Léonois (BNF Fr. 97, fol. 136v), 1st quarter 15th century | Christine de Pizan, Harley MS 4431, detail | Dog supporting an escutcheon (Getty 7, fol. 2v, 1445) from the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie, with motto on collar |
Gaston Phoebus, Mandragore for BNF Fr. 1291 (c. 1445-1450)
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| Bas-relief of story of Esau and Jacob, by Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1444-1452 | Procession of the Old King in the Procession of the Magi frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1459-1460, herald with collared cat |
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| Lancelot du Lac (BNF Fr. 112(1)), c. 1470: Lancelot beats his master (fol. 4v) |
Hunt-themed playing cards with one of the suites as dog collars, collars on face cards seem to have a little extra bling? (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flemish 1470-80)
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| 1470-80 Hunt-themed playing cards, collar suite | 1470-80 Hunt-themed playing cards, king of collar suite |
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| The Wayfarer by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1480 | September, the Hours of Charles d’Angoulême (BNF Latin 1173, fol. 5r), c. 1475-1500 | MS Egerton 2045, f89, 1480-85, spike collar on shepherds dog |
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| The Judgment of Cambyses by Gerard David, 1498 |
The Garden of Pleasure, //Échecs amoureux (BNF Fr. 143, fol. 198v), c. 1496-1498, border detail
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16th Century:
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| Semiramis, De mulieribus claris (BNF Fr. 599, fol. 5v), 15th or 16th c. | Two Venetian Ladies by Vittore Carpaccio, c. 1510 |
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| Portrait of Charles V by Jacob Seisenegger, 1532 | Portrait of Charles V by Titian, 1532-1533 |
Prong collar on executioner dog
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| Boy with a greyhound by Paolo Veronese, 1570s | Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington in the Hunting Field by Robert Peake the Elder, 1603 |
Post-Period:
Abraham Danielsz Hondius, Amsterdam Dog Market, c. 1677, detail of dog collars
Modern Slip Collars for Coursing:
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