Costume of an Italian messenger, 15th century. He wears a blue chlamys with yellow lining, fastened at the shoulder with a gold clasp, scarlet tunic and belt, black boots and skyblue trousers. From a miniature painting in the Duke of Urbino's Bible in the Vatican library. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from "Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries," Levy Fils, Paris, 1861.