1869 Drinking Cups and their Customs (Mixellany)

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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, 51 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