Comparison of tools mentioned in texts

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British Library, MS Cotton. Julius A II (11th century?) Extracted from Wright, Thomas.  A Volume of Vocabularies.  Diccionarius of John de Garlande,  ca. 1220 (written sometime between 1218 and 1229.) Extracted from Wright, Thomas.  A Volume of Vocabularies.  [Galfridus Anglicus or Galfrisus Grammaticus]. Promptorium Parvulorum [A.k.a. Medulla Gramatice], ca. 1440 [earliest known printing 1499]. Lystyne Lordys Verament
(also called "A Shoemaker's Verse Testament" (c.1475-1500)
Manuscript Oxford, Lincoln College, MS Lat 141 f.5-6              		Thomas Dekker. "The Shoemaker's Holiday" 1598/9 Deloney, Thomas. The Gentle Craft. London: John Stafford, 1648. (Excerpt) Originally published c.1600. An Act concerning Tanners, Curriers, Shoe-makers and other Artificers Occupying the Cutting of Leather. (1604) Rowley, William. A Shoo-Maker a Gentleman London:  I. Okes, 1638.

 

 Holme, Randle. The Academy of Armory, or, a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon Containing the Several Variety of Created Beings, and How Born in Coats of Arms, Both Foreign and Domestick : With the Instruments Used in All Trades and Sciences, Together with Their Terms of Art : Also the Etymologies, Definitions, and Historical Observations on the Same, Explicated and Explained According to Our Modern Language : Very Usefel [Sic] for All Gentlemen, Scholars, Divines, and All Such as Desire Any Knowledge in Arts and Sciences. Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 634:10. Chester: Printed for the author, 1688. 
 
  • ansorio
  • SHAPYNG KNYFE, of sowtare: Ansorium, -ij; CATH
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  • Trenket/tranket
        
  • Cutting Knife
     
  • carwyng knyfe
  • paring knife
  • paring knife
  
  • Paring-knife/cutting knife
  • paring Knife
  • Subula, Æl

 
  • subula
  • ELSYN? (elsyng, K.; alsene, awl) Sibula.
  
  • a prick
  • awl
  • four sorts of awls

 
  • Pricking Aule
  
  • pricking-aule
  • Aule
  • Aule
  • stitching Aule
  • sowing Aule (Bent)
  • pegging Aule
 
  • licino / "twist" (?)
  
  • lygellys
  • shoe-thread
  • shoo-threed
  • "good Thread well twisted"
  • shooe-thrids
  • Closing Thread
  • Stitching Thread
  • Leather or Heel thread
  • Stitching Thread
  • Tatching ends
  • a Rowl or Knot of a Tatching Thread
     
  • sterop
  • stirrup
  • Stirrop
  
  • Stirrups
  
 
  • seta porcina / sow's hair
  • (BRUSTYL of a swyne, K.P. Seta.)
  • brystyllys
  
  • Sow-haires
  
  • shooe-hairs/Sow-haires
  
         
  • Drawer
  
  • Drawer
  
       
  • dresser
  • Dresser
  
  • Dresser
  • Dresser
         
  • two wedges, a more and a lesser
  
  • Wedges
  • pair of Wedges
     
  • fotyng-bloke
  • heel-block
  • Heel-block
  
  • Heele-blocks (Greater and lesser)
  
 
  • Formipedius/
    Formes
  • LESTE, sowtarys forme. Formula, CATH. formipedia, DICC. calopodia, C. F.
 
  • lastys
  • Last
      
  • Shoomakers Last
       
  • hand- and thumb- leather
  • Hand-leather and a Thumb-leather
  • "Hand-leathers"
  • hand and thumb-lethers
  
         
  • Pincers

 

  
  • Pincers

 
  • Pincers/Nippers
  • Pincers/Hammer Pincers
     
  • nallys

 

  
  • tackes

 

  
  • Tacks

 
  • heel Tack
  • Sole Tack
  • heel Tack (double/treble nick about the head)
       
  • stopper
  • stopping-stick
 		  
  • stopping stick
 		  
       
  • rubbing-pin
  • rubbing stone
  
  • rubbing-stone
  • pollishing stick, (or hollin sticks - 3 sorts)
  • Bakers Brake
  • Petty Boy
  • stitching Stick
  • fore-part Stick
  • Long Stick
       
  • two balls of wax

 

  
  • "Wax well rosened"

 

  
  • Ball of Shoomakers Wax
         
  • The Aule steele
  
  • Steele
  
         
  • whetstone
  
  • whetstone
  
  • Acus/Nædl
        
  • Needle
  
  • Needle
  
         
  • Thimble
  
  • Thimble
  
         
  • Apron...Lambs skin
  
  • Apron
  
     
  • orgone
  • organ-pipe
        
       
  • wooden heel (on a woman's cork shoe)
    
  • short-heeles
  
     
  • talow
  • gres
  • a firkin of butter, to tan leather withal
        
 
  • atramentario denigratum (blacking?)
  • BLEKE (blecke, P.) Atramentum.
  • blackyng pot
  • blacking pan
  • thombys blake
          
               
  • Shooe-sole/Pattern for a Shooe-sole
     
  • paring bord
  • chaspy
  • schoyng horne
  • turning styke
  • Kyng Coltyng spone
 
  • gimlet?
  • clouts
  • rubbing brush

 

 		      
  • Mounter
  • Shoomakers Measure
  • Punch
  • Punching Lead
  • Lead/Cistern