13th Century

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Image - Italy, Florence, National Library, *Cantigas de Santa Maria* collection, No. 275-F103V: The Virgin of Terena cures two friars of the Order of St. John of rabies. Work of Alfonso X the Wise (1221–1284).
Particular attention should be paid to the garment worn over the cotte (only the sleeves of the cotte are visible). This is likely the outer garment known as a "garnache."

Image - Fragments from the *Book of Games* of Alfonso X (1251–1282). The headwear and the colors of the cottes and cloaks—black and brown—are of particular interest.

Image - Legend of St. ...St. Francis, fresco, 1300 (Legend of St. Francis 25: Dream of St. Gregory, 1300, fresco, Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi) – British Library.

Illustration – Inverted banners of the Templars and Hospitallers: mid-13th-century miniature (Historia Anglorum, Ms. Roy. 14.CVII, f. 130v) – British Library. The surcoats are brown; the cloaks are black.

Illustration – Hospitaller banner on the left: *Chronica Majora* by Matthew Paris. Statutes of the Order, 13th century (Manuscript 016, folio 142).

Illustration – Joseph Chauncy, Prior of the Hospital in England around 1273, praying before John the Baptist (Joseph Chauncy's Missal)

Illustration – Reynard the Fox during a dispute between a Hospitaller (left) and a Templar (right), and Reynard the Fox on the Wheel of Fortune. Renart de Nouvel, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. Fr. 372, f. 59, Paris, France, 1290–1300

14th Century

Illustration – 'St. "George and the Dragon," Basilica di San Zeno, Verona, Italy, 1340.

Image – Mid-14th-century wall painting (in situ, Avio Castle, Italy) – MAA.

Image – Illuminated initial from the *Gran Crónica de España* by Juan Fernández de Heredia, second half of the 14th century – MAA.

Image – Grand Master of the Hospitallers, Italy, Andrea da Firenze, 1355.

Image – Grand Master of the Hospitallers Juan de Heredia, second half of the 14th century.

Image – Miniature depicting the arrest of the Templars, late 14th century. (Chroniques de France ou de St. Denis, Shelfmark/Page: Royal 20 C. VII, f.42v ) – British Library: the artist who created the miniature was likely unfamiliar with the Templars—as the Order had been dissolved in 1308—and thus depicted them resembling the Hospitallers.

15th Century

Image – Wall painting by Gaspare da Vimercate (Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy), 1450 – MAA.

Image – *Leggenda delle reliquie* (Legend of the Relics) by Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 1484, 15th century.