338 Inventory of Chantry Furniture, A.D. 1472. 



Margarete Rodeney, brother and sister to the saide Robarde Lords 

 Hungerford. 



Item. A nother faire newe masseboke wele corrected, in the 

 wich is conteyned all the saide Obites in the latter ende of the 

 boke. 



Item. An Antiphoner ' wele noted, with an ymage of Jhu 

 lympned \_painted'\ in first letter D, of the Story of Advent. 



Item. An hole legend ^ with 2 corbet elapses,^ and with a tabill 

 in the last ende to enduce men in redyng to understand long or 

 shorte. 



Item. An Ordynali of Salisbury use,* wele corrected, And 2 

 Processionels ^ of the same use well corrected. 



Item. A Corporas ^ case of cloth of tissue crymsyn with a 

 corporas in the same of fine launde \_laivn']. Item. A nother 

 corporas case of blew cloth of goolde with Jhus embrowdred in the 



^ Antiphonarium ; the book containing the versicles and responses, used 

 throughout the year: such as the Introits of the mass, &c. [Hart.] 



2 That is, a " Whole Legend," or book with the lives of saints for the entire 

 year, for reading at Matins. [Dr. Rock.] 



3 Just as ia A.D. 1868, "Wiltshire folk do now call wasps " wapses,^' so 

 did they in A.D. 1472, call clasps " elapses." I am kindly informed in 

 private note from the Rev. Dr. Daniel Rock, that by corbet clasps is meant a 

 book-fastening of the following kind: viz., "leather straps on one side of the 

 book, having, at the end, a tongue or short piece of metal, with a hole in it, to 

 catch on to a knob or hook on the other side." As to the name " corbet," I 

 think it is merely some old provincial way of pronouncing ^'curved." In 

 Ains worth's Latin Dictionary, one of the meanings of the word " corvus" is 

 " a grapple or iron hook ;" which fairly corresponds with the brass fastenings 

 of ancient manuscript volumes. 



* Ordinale, or Portiforium ; otherwise called the Pie : a book of rubrical 

 directions; so numerous and hard to understand, that "many times there was " 

 (says the Preface to Book of Common Prayer) " more business to find out what 

 should be read, than to read it when it was found out." " Salisbury Use," of 

 course means the pecviliar ritual or ser%ice book used at Sarum before the Refor- 

 mation. In England there were^ye varieties. See the "Preface" alluded to. 



5 Processional ; was a book containing the Services used at the Rogation and 

 other processions. [Hart.] 



6 The Corporas, or Corporale ; a small cloth on which the Host was laid at 

 the time of consecration, made of fine linen, thoiigh outwardly it might be 

 adorned with silk and gold. The " Corporas Case" was called the " Bursa." 

 It was of a square form, made of some rich material, with a cross or some other 

 holy image on the upper side. [Hart.] 



