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CUPS AND THEIB CUSTOMS.
adds, should always be drank standing. In more
modem times, however drinlring-cups have been formed
of various materials, all of which have, at least in
regard to idea, a preferable and more humane founda-
tion than the one from which we derive the term. Thus,
for many centuries past, gold and silver vessels of every
form and pattern have been introduced, either with or
without lids, and with or without handles,
HANAP
is the name of a small drinking-cup of the
15th and 16th centuries, made usually of silver, gilt,
standing upon feet. They were made at Augsburgh
and Nuremberg,
In an old French translation of Genesis, we find at
v. 5, c. xliv.:—" Le Hanap que vous avez amblee est le
Hanap mon Seignor, et quel il solort deleter, male chose
avei fait,
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relating to the silver cup Joseph ordered to
be put in his brother's sack. In some Scotch songs a
drinking-eup is called cogne or cog; this word is also
spelt in different parts of Scotland cogie, and coig. This
word may be compared with
cocuhm
(medical Latin for
a hollowwooden vessel), also with the old German
kouch,
and the Welsh
cuing,
a basin.
The Flemish drinking-cups of the 16th and 17th
centuries were called
mdricomes
s
I.
e.
u
come-agains/'
The bell-shaped drinking-glasses of the sixteenth
century are specially worthy of observation $ and there
are three very good specimens in the Beraal Collection
at the South-Kensington Museum, one of which is
said to be German, and the others Tenetian. The
mounting of the German glass consists of a hollow