Middle English Dictionary Entry
manū̆el(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | manū̆el(e n. Also manual, manwel. |
| Etymology | OF; also cp. L manuāle. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A service book for use by the priest in administering the sacraments; (b) the title of a treatise by Pecock on praying with the Pater Noster.
Associated quotations
a
- (1432) Rec.St.Mary at Hill27 : ij legendes & a manwell & a Ordynall.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)325 : Manuele, booke to minster wythe the sacramentys: Manuale.
- (1447) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 1156 : Itm., a newe Manual, seconde folio begynnyng 'fensa per dominum'..Itm., An old Manual, ijde folio begynnyng 'Manibus sit'.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15147 : Item, j old Manuel begynning with the wordys: Omnibus diebus Dominicis, etc.
- (1467-8) RParl.5.632b : Yf it happe eny persone..to robbe..eny..Chales..Masseboke..Legend, Grayell, Manuell..and therof to be convict..then he..have not eny benefice of his Clergie.
- a1500 MSins (StJ-C G.30:Allen)744 : Þe manuel hyt is called, ffor in þe honde hyt schulde be bore.
b
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)204/36 : For þis secunde maner of preiyng, þou maist go into þe book y-callid my 'manuel'..wherynne it is deuisid þe rialist foorme of preiyng with pater noster.