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sconsa

sconsa [ME scons; cf. absconsa], candlestick or lantern, sconce; b (with handle). c1219 item ~e iij Process. Sal. 179; c1250 iij ~e ad candelas Vis. S. Paul. 9; [abbas J.: ob. 1308] ut ~e †departate [l. deportate] essent in choro de nocte coram eis qui vellent in libris servicium suum decantare G. S. Alb. II 106; c1350 ~as et boettas (v. boeta); qui aliquam leccionem in conventu legerit, ~am cum lumine nec ad dextram nec ad sinistram in oculis fratrum sed directe teneat ad librum Ord. Ebor. I 23; 1430 pro x sconsis empt’ et lib’ noviciis ‥ iv s. vj d. Ac. Durh. 710; sconce, ~a vel absconsa, -e ‥ lanternula PP; c1510 duo candelabra magna ‥ una ~a argentea, deaurata pro majori parte, quadrata, ponderans ij li. dim. uncie Hist. Church York III 380.  b 1402 unum sconsorum argenteum ‥ cum una hansa argentea, ponderis de Troye xxvj unciarum Invent. S. Paul. 515.

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