"Hanap" is an obsolete,
Norman-French term for a large drinking-
goblet
A chalice (from Latin 'cup', taken from the Ancient Greek () 'cup') is a drinking cup raised on a stem with a foot or base. Although it is a technical archaeological term, in modern parlance the word is now used almost exclusively for the ...
, made of precious material such as gold or silver, and used especially on state occasions.
In literature
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''Old London Silver, Its History, Its Makers and Its Marks''by Montague Howard (1903):
"hanap or Standing Cup (1616) Height, 25 inches At St. John's College, Cambridge A radical departure was made in the form of the standing cup of the second ..."
2
''Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England''by Great Britain Privy Council, edited by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Great Britain Record Commission, England and Wales Privy Council (1834):
"Item un autre hanap dargent par tout ... It j. autre hanap dargent playne ove j. tayle entour le ..."
3. In ''
Notes and Queries
''Notes and Queries'', also styled ''Notes & Queries'', is a long-running quarterly scholarly journal that publishes short articles related to " English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism".From the inner ...
'', contribution by Martim de Albuquerque (1850):
"The hanap frequently occurs in wills and inventories of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. In the will of Lady Clare, 1355*,— "Je devise a ..."
Resources
* http://www.lexic.us/definition-of/hanap
See also
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Hanaper
A hanaper or hanap, properly a case or basket to contain a " hanap" ( O. Eng. ''kneels'': cf. Dutch ''nap''), is a medieval cup or drinking vessel, a goblet with a foot or stem; the term is still used by antiquaries for medieval stemmed cups. The ...
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