quintane

Exodus is the second quintane: and so of the rest ...

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

So the Gloss hath it; "A quintane; that is, a book of the law, in which there is only one quintane."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

And a little after; "They lay the Law upon the quintanes, and the quintanes upon the Prophets and Hagiographa; but not the Prophets and Hagiographa upon the quintanes, nor the quintanes upon the Law": that is, not any one single quintane upon all the quintanes made up into one volume.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Pigs rooted in garbage in the quintane, the narrow spaces between the houses.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

The streets were slippery, and the clean, vaporous scent of drying rain was stronger than the usual odor of rotting rubbish piled between the houses in the spaces the Orvietans called quintane.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

Queen Elizabeth was very much amused at Kenilworth Castle by the hard knocks which the inexpert riders received from the rotating sand-bag when they charged "a comely quintane" in her royal presence in the year 1575.

Old English Sports 1892