And less than two centuries afterwards we read an order in one of the capitularies of Hincmar of Reims, to the effect that every priest ought to be provided with a censer and incense.
They were met by a deacon with a censer and by a servant who passed out on tiptoe without heeding them.
A censer lid with a late Saxon tower upon it, now in the British Museum, dates from the 12th century or earlier.
There are very numerous representations on the monuments; in some the censer appears as a small cup or bowl held by a human hand to which a long handle is attached on which is a small box to hold the incense.
There had already been other schisms on such questions as the right way to swing a censer and the legality of self-immolation for the Lord's sake.
The early Jewish portable censer would seem to have been a bowl with a handle, resembling a ladle.