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mappa

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Searchable Lemmata: mappa (L).
Alternate Forms: map, mappae, mappe, mampam, mappam, mappis.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Textile; cloth; cloth covering. In Latin accounts, used as a general term for napery, etc.: napkin; tablecloth; undercloth; cloth or napkin used in the performance of mass; cloth for the refectory. [Also, 'a map' - evidence not provided]. Farmer, S. (2006) points out that ‘In 1301-2 and 1303-4, the English king’s buyers paid between 6.6d. and 10d. per ell for Parisian mappa, between 5d. and 14d. for mappa from Dinant, and on one occasion, 13d. for some unspecified English mappa' [p. 79; citing NA MSS E 101/359/18 and E 101/366/4].(ante 700 - circa 1450)
1. Mantelia nunc pro operiendis mensis sunt; quae, ut nomen ipsud indicat, olim tergendis manibus praebebantur. Mappae convivii et epularum appositarum sunt, quasi manupae, atque ob id nominatae; cuius diminutivum mapella est. Toralia longae perpetuaeque mappae, a toro dictae. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,26,6)]
2. Mappa : wætersceat. [DOE AntGl 2 (Kindschi) (0836 (833))]
3. Mantilia mappae uellosae . [DOE CorpGl 2 (Hessels) (4855 (11.86))]
4. mapa bordclaþ. [DOE ÆGl 1 (001400 (14))]
5. sedilia refectorii, capituli, claustri tegantur bancalibus ... festivae mappae super tabulas refectorii sint extensae ita ut ante pendeant Ecclesiastic/Regula. tablecloth [DMLBS LANFR. (Const. 127-129) ante 1089]
6. extergifacium, mappa, togilla, gausape ... manutergium, manupiarium Gloss. [DMLBS OSB. GLOUC. (Deriv. 201) 1150/1175]
7. duo baudkynys de bruno sine armis ... una mappa sive pallia pro magno altari cum frontinello ymaginibus aureis ... ij mappe de viridi et rubeo cerico cum armis domini Accounts. spcf.: altar cloth (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [DMLBS Reg. Glasg. (332) 1432]
8. una capa preciosa de campo rubii cerici cum (?) pe[ndicul]is *ofichis aureis ... una capa de persico cerico intext' bestiiis, foliis, et floribus, cum parauris aureis et ymag' ceric' ... item capa de cerico persico intext' bestiis et volucribus aureis cum paraturis aureis ... cum iiij mappis sive twalis pro altari ... integrum vestimentum cum peraturis aureis de albo cerico cum lintheo Ja. Cameron .... Accounts. spcf.: altar cloth (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [DMLBS Reg. Glasg. (333) 1432]
c.f.: maniple, fanon, napery, wætersceat
L; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
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    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical Latin.
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