urcele (s.xiii3/4)
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urcele (s.xiii3/4)

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  FEW:  urceolus 14,60b Gdf:  orcel 5,615a / orcele 5,615b / orçuel 5,615c GdfC: ∅ TL: orcel 6,1185 / orcele 6,1185 / orçuel 6,1185 DEAF:  orcel  / orcel (orcele)  DMF:  orcel  / orcelle  / orçuel  TLF: ∅ OED:  urcelle n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  urceolus 3563a
orsele;  urcel,  ulcel (l. urcel?)  

Whereas the manuscript of the Bedford Inventories attestation clearly reads orseles (and the editor translates ‘branches and vases of gold’), this may be a scribal copying error for the word oiseles, so that the chapelle (i.e. 'cap') has images of ‘branches and birds’.

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1domesticimplement(small) jug, pitcher: 
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 ) labrum, gallice urcel, vel luter  123.45
( s.xivin; MS: c.1330 )  Largesce se byngne en petit urcele E Chynchesce se baynne en large paele  54.41
♦ eccl.implement cruet, small vessel to hold holy water or water and wine for the Eucharist: 
( 1307-08 )  pour un ulcel (l. urcel?) a eau benoite 84 l. 8s. 6d.  519
( MS: c.1335 ) Comaunda Dieu qe les riche vestimentz, le arche de le seintuayre, urcels, chaundelabres, basyns, lavours [...] y furent myses  iii 48.496
♦decor.representation of a (small) jug, pitcher: 
( 1433 )  Item, une chappelle de velvau vermeil, broudé d'ymages, semee de branches et d'orseles d'or  185.B9
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