Middle English Dictionary Entry
scrip(pe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | scrip(pe n. Also scripe, skrip(pe, skreppe & shrippe, shirpe, sherpe & (errors) script(e, skipp. |
| Etymology | OF escharpe, escherpe, eskerpe, eschreppe, escreppe, escrip(p)e & ML scrippum, scerpa, schrippa, schirpa, scherpa; also cp. ON: cp. OI skreppa. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A bag or satchel; a pilgrim's wallet; also fig.; (b) ~ and (ne) burdoun, burdoun and (ne) ~; (c) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Jas.(LdMisc 108)259 : A coppe of seluer stilleliche þis luþere Man gan bringue And dude in heore schrippe [Corp-C: scrippe] softeliche a-mong heore oþur þingue.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 17.40 : He ches to hym fyue moost cleer stones..& he putte hem in to þe shepperdis scrippe þat he hadde with hym.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judith 13.11 : She wente out & tooc þe heued of olofernes to hir hand maiden & comaundide þat she shulde puttyn it in to hir scrippe.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.10.10 : Nyl ȝe welden gold..not a scripe in the weye, nether two cootis, nether shoon.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.1777 : He..leyde adoun his potente and his hat And eek his scrippe [vr. scripte] and sette hym softe adoun.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7532 : Dauid..tok fiue stans..And put þam in his scrip [Frf: skrip] wit-in.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)6.23 : I sauȝ neuere palmere wiþ pik ne wiþ scrippe [vrr. skreppe, schrippe; C: shrippe] Axen aftir hym, er now in þis place.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)7.56 : He..heng his hoper at his hals in stede of a scrippe.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7403 : She had a burdowne al of thefte, That Gyle had yeue her of his yefte, And a skryppe of faynte distresse, That ful was of elengenesse.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)48b/b : Pera: a scripe or a pautener.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)118/13 : Þan went Patryk a-ȝen in-to þe towne for hir staffe & hir scryppe.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3474 : With flatte ferthynges the freke was floreschede all ouer..With scrippe ande with slawyn and skalopis inewe.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)2123 : This hous..Was ful of shipmen and pilgrimes, With scrippes [vr. shrippes] bret-ful of lesinges.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)257/8 : A syluer pece was put in his skipp [read: skripp] privalie.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)610/7 : Scarpsella: a scryppe.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)5372 : Thys bred..In ther sherpe [F l'escherpe] they shold..bere.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)396 : Schepherdys scrype [Hrl 221: cryppe]: Manticula.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)f.82va : She .. cutte of his heed .. and toke the heed & wrapped it in the canape and delyueryd it to her mayde & bad her to put it in her scryppe.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.260 : Þei tokyn moulyd bred in her scrippis.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)176/35 : They sawe þe man..haue a-bowte his necke a skrippe and a staf in his hande, as he hadde ben a pilgryme of Seynt Jame.
b
- c1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)61/1061 : Horn tok burdon & scrippe.
- c1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)192/4054 : Eft scrippe [vr. script] and bordoun he gan take.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)636 : I ffaillede a sherpe & bordon, Wych al pylgrymes ouhte to have.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)6220 : Towchyng shyrpe & bordoun, Thow shalt hem haue..Deluyered in thyn owne sighte.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)6264 : Ye..yive to me occasioun To leue skryppe & ek bordoun.
- a1500(1413) ?Hoccl.Poems PS (Eg 615)p.lii/15 : Burdone ne skrippe may I no lengere bere, Myne enemy so sore assaileth me.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Spencer 19)1.13.9b : He..neuere lefte fro him his scrippe ne his burdon, as it belongith to do a good pilgryme.
c
- (1260) Chester R.in Chet.n.s.8426 : Geoffrey Scrippe.