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A sketch of a rather cumbersome-looking chastity belt in the ca. 1405 manuscript of "Bellifortis", a late 14th-century book on military technology by retired soldier Kyeser von Eichstadt (born 1366).

For discussion, see The Girdle of Chastity: A Medico-Historical Study by Eric John Dingwall.[1] archive copy at the Wayback Machine

Original Latin description:

Florentiniarum hoc bracile dominarium, ferreum et durum, ab antea sic reseratum

For other scans from a different manuscript version of the "Bellifortis" see File:Konrad Kyeser, Bellifortis, Clm 30150, Tafel 15, Blatt 82v (Ausschnitt).jpg and File:Konrad Kyeser, Bellifortis, Clm 30150, Tafel 15, Blatt 82v.jpg

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