Renaissance Era Costumes

India AND Olmec* (Mesoamerica)

Ireland

Assyria, Arabia, Croatia

Assyria, Arabia, Croatia

Hungary

Italy

Northern Greece, Ethiopia and Ta(r)tar* people

Palestine

Russia, Poland, Finland, Lapland, Croatia

Russia, Poland, Finland, Moscow, Lapland, Croatia

The Orient

Turkey

Turkey

Venice

Greece, Ta(r)tar peoples, Iraq, Saracen* peoples

'Kostüme der Männer und Frauen in Augsburg und Nürnberg, Deutschland, Europa, Orient und Afrika - BSB Cod.icon. 341' at Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek contains around three hundred hand-painted national costumes produced in the 16th century.

The anonymous manuscript was probabaly created in Augsburg and seems to be one of a very few similar works from around the same time period. There are a couple of scanned pages attached to Cod.icon 341 in German (one, two) with some contextual background - that I can't read of course - but that's about the extent of online references.

The captions above are the rough chapter - country - translations with a little modernising and, in the interests of avoiding any unintended international incidents, should probably be taken with a grain of salt. All the images above were extensively background cleaned which was totally a waste of time. If your model chooses to match red boots with a green and pink silk-lined cape, it's an exercise in futility believing that that ensemble can be saved by any amount of tweaking at the margins. [via Marion McNealy]