scutellula

scutellula [CL scutella+-ula], ~um 1 small dish, saucer. 1501 xvj ~a coquinaria, A. sawcers Cant. Coll. Ox. I 33; superioris quadram, si fragmentis onustetur ‥ in ~am exoneret Whittington Vulg. 120. 2 small (metal) plate (in quot. as ornament of horse's harness). 13‥ sint lorene ‥ quedam de clavis latis, rotundis cum scutis, ~is pendentibus ferreis vel cupreis deauratis (Nominale) Neues Archiv IV 342.