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Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages (1843)

Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 142

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aken from the Anglo-Saxon hncep, the modern German?iapf, a cup, or goblet. The name in low Latin was hanapus, or hanaphus;in old French hanaps; and in the latter language we have hanapee, a cup-full ; hatiapel, a little cup; hanapcr (hanaperium) was the name given to theplace in which these cups… … (lone, received on that account the name of the Hanaper, the person whotransacted the business bearing the title of clerk of the hanaper, terms whichare still preserved. Hanaps are frequently mentioned in old documents. In an inventory of thegoods of the Hospital of Wez in 1350 (quoted by…

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