Appendices D

Summary

Benôit's Briseida's costume worn when she leaves Troy:

In India the Great [Northern and Northeastern Asia to Northern China], by magic and marvelous means, they made an enchanted cloth: the rose is not so red nor the lily so white as it is during the day – it is five or six times as red and white. In daytime it has, indeed, seven colors, and there are no beasts or flowers under the heavens that cannot be seen pictured there – shapes, semblances, and faces. It is always fresh and always beautiful. The cloak was made of that cloth. A wise Indian magician who for a long time was taught with Calchas the Trojan, sent it to him from his country. Everyone who saw it marveled at the person who had made such a thing because great wisdom and great skill are needed to execute this work.

The lining of the cloak was very valuable, made completely and totally of one piece. It was neither pieced nor seamed. Scholars find in writings that there are beasts in the Orient – at three years old one of these beasts would be very large – and they are called Dindialos. Their fur is much valued and the bone even more so. Never – not in hue of herb or flower – did God make a color that does not appear in that fur.

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