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Barlaam and Joasaph
Byzantine, 14th century AD

f.4v Persecution of Christians

Titre : Grec 1128
Date d'édition : 1301-1400
Type : manuscrit
Langue : Grec
Format : Parchemin. - 203 fol. - Peint. - Petit format Parchment. - 203 folios - Painted. - Small size
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Grec 1128
Description : JOANNES S. Sabæ monachus. Historia Barlaami monachi et Joasaphi, Indiæ regis
                       JOHN St. Sabas, monk. History of Barlaam, the monk, and Raphael, the king of India.
Description : Barlaami et Joasaphi historia, auctore Joanne, S. Sabæ monacho
                       Story of Barlaam and Raphael, the author is John, a monk of St. Sabas

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Referenced as figure 655 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
655A and 655B. Manuscript, A - "Persecution of Christians," B - "Monks taken before the Kings," Barlaam and Joasaph, 14th century AD, Byzantine, Bib. Nat., Ms Grec. 1128, ff. 4v and 116v, Paris (Ners B).
p202: Two basic forms of arm protection were known, the sāʿad or vambrace, and the kaff which seems to have been a type of pauldron or epaulette. While the former was probably of Transoxanian origin (Figs. 61B, 428, 430, 440, 445 and 446), the latter may have corresponded to those flexible upper-arm defences, of leather with or without scale reinforcement, that remained characteristic of Byzantine armour from the 5th to 14th centuries (Figs. 95, 655 and 656).