History of Muff (handwarmer)

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In Roman instances, the area of the glove changed into taken by using long sleeves (manicae) reaching to the hand, and in iciness special sleeves of fur had been worn. In Medieval Latin we find the word muffulae, defined by means of Du Cange as chirothecae pellitae et hibernae ("leather wintry weather gloves"). He prices from a cartulary of the yr 817, of the issuing to monks of sheepskin coverings to be used for the duration of the wintry weather. These can also have been, because the Roman surely have been, separate coverings for each hand, even though the cartulary mentioned also distinguishes the glove for summer season from the muffulae for winter wear. The Old French moufle meant a thick glove or mitten, and from this the Dutch mof, Walloon mouffe, and thence English "muff", are in all likelihood derived.