[7] This book, Klaidungsbüchlein, in the Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum, Brunswick, Germany, was edited by August Fink and published in full in 1963 by the Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin.
[8] For a general account, see J. L. Nevinson, “Sigmund von Herberstein: Notes on 16th century dress,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für historische Waffen- und Kostum-Kunde (1959), new ser. 1, p. 86.
[9] Sigmund von Herberstein, Gratae Posteritati . . . (Vienna, 1560).
[10] Sigmund von Herberstein, Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii, expanded ed. (Basel: Oporinus, 1556).
[11] Juan de Alcega, Libro di geometria y traca (1589). See also, Tailor and cutter (London, 1933), no. 68. A copy of the 1588 edition was acquired by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., in 1964.
[12] “Supplication to the King.” Printed by the Early English Text Society, extra ser. (1871), p. 52.
[13] Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, vol. 1 (2), on. 3326.
[14] Andrew Boorde, Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge (1542). Reprinted by the Early English Text Society, extra ser., vol. 10 (1870), p. 116.
[15] Recueil de la diversité des habits . . . (1562). The book was reissued in 1564 and 1567.
[16] Translated, this reads: “. . . our predecessors of old . . . were more careful about sumptuous dress than rare virtue . . . for as the monk was recognized by his frock, the jester by his cap, and the soldier by his arms, so the wise man was known by his moderate habit.”