Middle English Dictionary Entry
limnǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | limnǒur n. Also limnor(e, limner, liminour, limenour, leminer & (early surnames) liminur, liminer, leminur, lemner, leominur. |
| Etymology | AF lymnour |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. luminoure.
1.
An illuminator of manuscripts; also, a member of a gild of illuminators; also, as surname.
Associated quotations
- (c1230) Cart.Oseney in OHS 89189 : Radulfo le Liminur.
- (1275) in Fransson Surn.130 : Joh. le Leominur. Ric. Lemner.
- (1279) Hundred R.Tower 2463 : Thomas Liminer.
- (1286) Feet Fines Oxf.in ORS 12223 : Iohannes le Lemynur.
- (1310) Reg.Greenfield in Sur.Soc.151268 : John le limnour of Beverley.
- (1332) in Fransson Surn.130 : Will. le Leminer'.
- (1358-9) Acc.Chester in LCRS 59249 : John le Lymnour.
- (1389) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.148 : [John Whyte,] lymenour, [was committed to prison for a debt of 16 s. which Henry Gaysle,] scriveyn, [recovered against him on the award of the masters of the] Lymenours.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)246a/a : Graueres, lymynours, and poynters eteth rue by cause of þe yhen.
- (1406) Cart.Oseney in OHS 91193 : Hen. Lymner.
- (1430) Close R.Hen.VI104 : [John Brown] lymner.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)317 : Lymnore [KC: luminour]: Elucidator, miniographus, aurigraphus, miniator, alluminator, illuminator.
- (1442) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.166 : [Richard Okkewell,] lymner.
- (c1458) Let.Oxf.in OHS 36344 : Al bokbynders, lymnors, wryters, pergemeners, barbours.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1400 Trin-C O.9.39 Recipes (Trin-C O.9.39) 55/17 : Forto make a colour whiche þat lymenours clepeþ colour de rose.
- ?c1500 Hrl.2252 Artist.Recipes (Hrl 2252) 73/18 : Here begynnythe the crafte of lymmyng. Fyrtse howe thow shalte temper al thy colors to lymme with bokes, and how þu shalte make a syse to cowche gold or syluer..with many hother craftes þat be nedefull for a lymnour to haue.
- ?a1525 Dc.54 Artist.Recipes (Dc 54) 266/5 : To make rosyn colour for lymnorus.
Note: Additional quotes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1500 Hnt.HU.1051 Recipes in Crafte Lymmyng (Hnt HU 1051) 315/23 : To dry brasil water when it is cruddid to be substancial for alumpnars or steynars.
Note: Clarke's gloss = 'illuminators, err. for lymnours'. ?New spelling = (?error) alumpnar.