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According to Latham's Revised Medieval Latin Wordlist (under tuallia), it is a "towel or altar-cloth." Philip Rusche UNLV ----- Original Message ----- From: Laura Jacobus To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 3:46 PM Subject: [M-R] tobalia/tovalea I've come across the term 'tovalea' in a fourteenth century inventory, and it seems to correspond with a 'tobalia' mentioned in a fifteenth one, but I don't know what it means. The items in question are associated with lecterns, and some have two 'capitibus' , which would seem to indicate that they were books or cloths, depending on how the latter term translates. Any suggestions? Working from home during the school hols, I don't have access to Niermeyer et al. laura