Mart,

I agree. And since we have the art I am far more on board with scale use. The tricky part is always linking them to the terms unless they give a clearish description.

So far in art I have seen scale fro the 14th for pretty much every part of the body so it clearly was done for sure. I tend to think aventails and sabatones are the most commo from what I have seen but there are vambraces, gaunts and torso armour as well.

RPM

I found another depiction of what seems to be a coat of plates, in Simone Martini's frescoes about St. Martin's life; they are in the St. Martin's church in the Lower Assisi Cathedral and dating (according to Wikipedia) 1315-1318:

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