Middle English Dictionary Entry
penner n.
Entry Info
| Forms | penner n. Also pener, pennar(e. |
| Etymology | L pennārium |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A pen-case; also, a writing case; also, a case in which a surgeon carried instruments [quot.: ?a1425]; ~ and inke-horn.
Associated quotations
- (1393) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.212 : [Counting-house..one] pennar [and ink-horn].
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1879 : But pryuely a penner [vrr. pennere, penne] gan he borwe, And in a lettre wroot he al his sorwe.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ezek.9.2 : O man in the myddis of hem was clothid with lynnun clothis, and a pennere [WB(1): ynkhorn; L atramentarium] of a writere at hise reynes.
- a1425 *Trev.Barth.(Mrg M 875)14b/a : Þey bereþ penneris and enkehornis and oþer instrumentis of writtis.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)1a/b : In his [surgeon's] pennaclero, i. pennar [Ch.(2): case; L pennarolo] or casse, he oweþ for to bere 5 instrumentz.
- (a1430) Invent.Randolf in Archaeol.61171 : j Penner and j Incorne silver and gild, writen theron, God make us gude men.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)392 : Pennare [vr. penner], or ynkhorne yn o worde: Scriptorium, calamarium.
- (c1450) Paston (EETS)1.152 : Cest escriptori est nostre: This pener is owre.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)601/34 : Pennarium: a Pennere.
- (1463) Acc.Howard in RC 57229 : Item, payd the sayd day for a pener and a ynkorne, iij d.
- (1471) Will York in Sur.Soc.45194 : Item..j nother pener gylted.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)94a : A Pennere & An ynkhorn: Calamarium.
- (a1483) Tailors' Gild Exeter320 : Water Kent, a payre of tabelles and a penner and a inkehorne.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)682/15 : Hoc pennare: a pener.