Hi Laura,
I looked up cornu in my Latin dictionary (Smith and Hall [1904]). I don’t have the OLD (2012) at home. Smithe and Hall give the following as one of the meanings of cornu: “wing of an army” [hence, side?]; more precisely in Lewis and Short (via Perseus): The point, end, extremity, wing of a place [B.2.l], with refs to Livy, Tacitus, and Pliny. And BWL (?) has cornu dextro vel sinistro “on the right or left wing” (from the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources [Logeion]).
Bill
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That's great. In another related document it does indeed look like cornu but I didn't think it could be!
Many thanks
Laura
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On 27 March 2017 at 14:10, Bill Schipper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Hi Laura,
“cornu epistolae”, the right side of the alter, from the point of view of the congregation. Cornu, -us can made “side”. The other side would be the “cornu euangeliae”.
Bill
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I'm struggling to transcribe a document which refers to the epistle side of a church screen (at least I think that's what it's talking about) but I can't read the term for side. It looks like 'cirnu/cornu epistole'. A dictionary search leads to 'citra' as a possibility, but it really doesn't look like that. What would be the usual term for 'epistle side'?
Many thanks,
Laura
Dr. Laura Jacobus
Senior Lecturer in History of Art
Birkbeck, University of London
For details of my book on Giotto and the Arena Chapel see http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9781905375127-1
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