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Woman wearing a coif, detail of a portrait of an unidentified female, oil on wood panel by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1535–40; in the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.

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coif: References & Edit History

Article Contributors

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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Deleted Web site: Medieval Men's Coifs.	Grace Young	Sep 11, 2013
	Added new Web site: The Elizabethan Costume - Coifs.	Kanchan Gupta	Sep 12, 2007
	Added new Web site: Virtue Ventures - How to make a Coif.	Kanchan Gupta	Sep 12, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 27, 1999