The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431., Scrope, Stephen, -1472, tr., Warner, George F. (George Frederic), Sir, 1845-1936, ed., Bath, Thomas Henry Thynne, 5th Marquis of, 1862-, Roxburghe Club.

Mynerve was a lady of grete connyng and fonde the craft to make armure; for afore the pe[p]yl armed theyme but wyth cuirboyle. 4. [Cuir-bouilli, leather boiled and moulded, while soft, into the required shape.] And for the grete wysdom that was in this lady thei called hyr a godes; and because that Hector cowde sette armure welle on werke and that it was hys ryght craft, Othea called hym the sone of Mynerve, notwythstondyng that he was sone to qwen Ecuba of Troye. And in the same wyse all that loueth armes may be named. And to this purpose an auctoure seith that knyghtes youen to armes be soggettes to the same.