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sindon

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Searchable Lemmata: sindonie (AN), cindon (L), sindo (L), sindone (ME), sindon (W), sindon (OScots), sindon (MdE).
Alternate Forms: cindon, cindone, scindon, sindone, sindoni, syndon, syndone, syndony.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Textile; a fine linen material; also (quotations 1336-7 and 1346), used of a kind of silk, otherwise called sendal (q.v.) or cendal. Lisa Monnas notes that 'Sindons were woven both from silk and from linen during the Middle Ages, and it has been suggested that in the Great Wardrobe accounts the term denoted linen cloths [Newton, S.M. (1980), 135]. In the purchase lists, however, it seems that sindon was being substituted for cendal, a lightweight silk cloth; and in one separate account of liveries dating from the mid-fourteenth century, the two terms are definitely interchanged' [she cites transcriptions by Nichols, N. H. (1846), pp. 12, 16, 17].(ante 1100 - circa 1337)
1. Anaboladium amictorium lineum feminarum quo humeri operiuntur, quod Graeci vel Latini sindonem vocant. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,25,7)]
2. Anaboladium ł sindo linen heafodes wrigels. [DOE ISID. Etym. (080500 (805))]
3. et mutatoria et pallia et linteamina et acus et specula et sindones et vittas et theristra. [DOE Biblia Sacra (Fischer, et al.) (Is, 3. 22-23)]
4. [91] ... sindone: cendal ... lumbaribus: brailers ... stragulata: chalun de Reins ... [92] ... criniali: par large kele, garlonde, de un bende de chef ... [93] ... nichiteria: cholers .i. chaumpiuns ... [93.71] ... manicis: espaces, manicles ... [93.72] ... fimbriis: par lurlures (l. par l'urlures) Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 91-93) ante 1300]
5. Pro vna vlna Cindone empta ad ligandam pred. clocam, vj d. Accounts. from ‘The Wardrobe and household accounts of Bogo de Clare, A.D. 1284-6’, ed. S.M. Giuseppi, who notes that 'Considerable quantities of it of various shades of red and green were bought from the Lucchese merchants in 1285 and 1286, its price being between 10d. and 1s. 2d. the ounce or 3s. 8d. and 13s. 4d. the piece. It was used for the covering of mattresses and pillows, for gardecorsata (waistcoats or corsets), and for the binding of Bogo’s robes. It was probably a silken material, the price of silk thread being much the same per ounce' [Giuseppi, S.M. (1913), 9]. [MED Wardrobe Acc.de Clare in Archaeol.70 (33) 1286]
6. [588] ... in 3 duoden. de cheker (l. chekeré) ... [595] ... In duabus ulnis de cyndone [AND Durham2 (588-595) 1311/1315]
7. si mustrat le sindonie e la suarie [AND Revelaciun (16r)]
8. Item, in carde sindone filo serico et lacis empt ... pro casickis et cappis emendandis [MED Sacrist R.Ely 2 (79) 1336/1337]
9. ipse relicto syndone (mantel) nudus fugiet.The term is is found in the stage directions of one of the Cornish mystery plays, in which it is referred to as a mantel in the text: "the vantel gas yn gage." [LexP Passio XPI (Norris) (1182 (stage dir))]
c.f.: sendal
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
References: Giuseppi, S.M. (1913); Monnas, L. (1989); Newton, S.M. (1980)
1b(n.) Textile; sheet of 'sindon' cloth, often linen, used in the context of a shroud or wrapping for the body of Christ following the crucifixion; also used as bedding or bed linen.(ante 1100 - ante 1475)
1. Et accepto corpore iesu inuoluit illud in sindone munda : & þa genoman þæs hælendes lic iosep bewand in clæne scetan. [DOE MtGl (Ru) (1035 (27.59))]
2. Joseph accipiet Jhm in brachia et portat cindone [LexP Passio XPI (Norris) (3156 (stage dir))]
3. Et depositum inuoluit sindone et posuit eum in monumento excisso in quo nondum quisquam positus fuerat & miððy ofasette ł innbewand mið linene hrægle & gesette hine in byrgenne ł aheawun ł in ðæm ne ðaget ænig monn gesettet wæs. [DOE LkGl (Li) (1096 (25.53))]
4. Ioseph autem mercatus est sindonem et deponens eum inuoluit sindone et possuit eum in monumento quod erat excisum de petra et aduoluit lapidem ad hostium monumenti wutudlice brohte lin & ofdyde hine biwand in line & sette hine in byrgenne ðæt wæs giheowen of stane & awælte ðone stan to ðær dura ðær byrgenne. [DOE MkGl (Ru) (0657 (15.46))]
5. ITEM ORATIO AD CORPORALE BENEDICENDUM SIUE DUO UEL TRIA UEL AMPLIUS FUERINT CORPORALIA BENEDICENDA. Deus ... dum pro omnium uita pius uoluisti agnus mactari . atque in sindone ioseph lino texta totum te inuolui permisisti. respice propitius ad uota nostra. qui tua fideliter carismata amplecti cupimus quaesumus domine sanctificare . benedicere . consecrareque . digneris haec linteamina in usum altaris tui ad consecrandum super ea siue ad tegendum inuoluendumque corpus et sanguinem filii tui domini nostri iesu christi. [LexP Egbert Pont. (Banting) (48) circa 950]
6. I gyf þe þis syndony þat I haue bowth to wynde þe in whyl it is new Biblical/Hagiographic, Drama, Poetic. [MED Ludus C. ((Vsp D.8) 311/1156) ante 1475]
7. Ane pretius claith, quhilk we ane syndon call, That kingly corps to couer he coft syne [DOE Abbo (111)]
c.f.: sendal
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French syndone, sindone, or from Latin sindon (-nis), from Greek σινδών (-όνος), prob. of Oriental origin. Also cf. sendal.
WF:
Etym Cog: cendal, sindon, σινδόν, sendal, sindone, sindonie.
References:
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