Manifer

In addition to the ordinary tilting armour extra pieces were worn : The grandguard and volant piece, very often riveted together; the elbow or pasguard, and the manifer or miton gauntlet for the bridle hand.

(vii) The manifer (reinforcing bridle gauntlet for the tilt) was examined in cross-section. The microstructure shows tempered martensite and bands of ferrite, associated with corrosion cracks.

Even from that distance, the Master of the Armoury could see that the gauntlets were masterpieces of construction, the left one a manifer or bridle gauntlet, designed to cover hand and lower arm on the exposed side of the jouster.