Various French costumes of the 9th century, taken from manuscripts in Paris and Brussels. Women in veils with long gowns and bombarde sleeves, soldiers in Carolingian helmets with lance and buckler. Angel with quill and scroll. Costumes divers IXe Siecle. Chromolithograph after Ferdinand Sere from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.