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