Citations:manifer


 * a gauntlet; see Citations:mainfaire, Talk:mainfaire:


 * 1898, The Archaeological Journal, page 312:
 * In addition to the ordinary tilting armour extra pieces were worn : The grandguard and volant piece, very often riveted together; the elbow or pasguard, and the manifer or miton gauntlet for the bridle hand.
 * 1992, Arms and Armour Society, Journal:
 * Nuremberg retains two type I poldermittens and two manifers, while one of each, but not forming a pair, are found on the Higgins Stechzeug. These are very similar to their counterparts, but none of the serial markings directly ...
 * 1995, Robert Coltman Clephan, The Mediaeval Tournament, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486286204):
 * [page 64:] The manifer, or mainfere, main de fer, steife henze, or miton-gauntlt is the stiff, heavy jousting gauntlet for the bridle hand and forearm; the name "manifer" is given by Meyrick to the crinet, absurdly
 * [page 69:] The “Maynfere with a ring” is the manifer or mainfaire (main de fer), described in this work under the heading of reinforcing pieces.
 * [page 103:] Plate XI (1) pictures two fine suits at Paris for jousting at the tilt, one of them with the manifer or mainfere, the passe-guard and poldermiton in their places.
 * 2003, Alan R. Williams, The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern Period, BRILL (ISBN 9789004124981), page 805:
 * (vii) The manifer (reinforcing bridle gauntlet for the tilt) was examined in cross-section. The microstructure shows tempered martensite and bands of ferrite, associated with corrosion cracks.
 * 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press (ISBN 9781843835943), page 156:
 * ... in turn is complemented by the manifer that protects the bridle hand. The tassets flare out from the breastplate, and the armour is completed by full leg-harness and residual bear-paw sabatons, reflecting the fashion of the time.
 * 2013, Edward Marston, The Roaring Boy, Allison & Busby (ISBN 9780749015800):
 * Even from that distance, the Master of the Armoury could see that the gauntlets were masterpieces of construction, the left one a manifer or bridle gauntlet, designed to cover hand and lower arm on the exposed side of the jouster.
 * 2020, Alan V. Murray, Karen Watts, The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas D'armes, 1100-1600, Boydell & Brewer (ISBN 9781783275427), page 84:
 * Manifers next appear – in the sources consulted – in the inventory of a Nottinghamshire knight of 1355. Two are listed after his jousting saddle, helms and shield: j sel p[u]r lez justes ij helmes j escu ij meyndeffers. An inventory ...