Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.
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Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.
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Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, 13th cent.
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London :: Imprinted by Thomas East, dwelling by Paules wharfe,
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¶ Of Tabula. ca. 162.
A Boord is called Tabula, and hath the name of Teneo, to holde: and Ta∣bula is in one signification a meat boord, and namely of rich men, as it wer Te∣nebula, bolding morsells, for they holde morsells and vessell, that be set there vp∣on: and is areared and set vpon féete, and compassed with a lyst about. And in another manner. Tabula is a plaieng boord, that men play on at the Dice, and other games: & this maner of Table is double, and arayed with diuers colours. In the third manner it is a thin planke and plaine, and therein be letters writ with colours, and sometime small shin∣gles be plained, and made some deale holow in either side, and be craftely ioy∣ned togethers, and filled full of waxe, blacke, greene or red, to write therein. And such tables be called Tabulae, for they hold letters that are writen therin. And the more plaine ye trée is that they be made of, and the more hard & smooth, the better the Tables be.
In another manner, this name Ta∣bula commeth of Tegendo, as it wer a heling or a couering, and is a long shin∣gle and broad, cloue with an axe or with
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a sawe, and such a boorde is néedefull to couering of houses, for of such boords be tables made, and other buildings crafte∣ly arayed, and be disposed, sometime in fighting, with many manner crafte and wonderfull, and that after many maner casting, hewing, denting, and plaining: that such tables and boords may be euen and well ioyned. Boords and tables gar∣nish houses, neuerthelesse when they bée set in soler flores, they serue all men & beasts that be therein, and be troden of all men and beasts that come therein, & haue gyests or beames lyke farre asun∣der, and be fastened thereto, and defend∣ed therewith, that they bende not nor crooke too soone, when they be ouerset & pressed with stones and other heauye things laid on them. Then they be dres∣sed, hewed and plained, and made coue∣nable to vse of the ships, of bridges, of bulks, and coffers, and many other néed∣full things of buylding. Also in shippes mariners flye to a boord, and be ofte sa∣ued in perill.