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    Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849
    Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849
    Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849
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    Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849

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      Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 - Various Various

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes & Queries 1849.12.22, by Various

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      Title: Notes & Queries 1849.12.22

      Author: Various

      Release Date: March 22, 2004 [EBook #11652]

      Language: English

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      of Early Journals.

      NOTES AND QUERIES:

      A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

      When found, make a note of.—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.

      CONTENTS.

      NOTES:—

      Otloh, the Scribe, by S.W. Singe

      Notes on Cunningham's London, by E. Rimbault

      Wives of Ecclesiastics

      Tower Royal

      Ancient Inscribed Dish, by Albert Way

      Barnacles, by W. B. MacCabe

      Dorne the Bookseller

      Rev. W. Stephen's Sermons

      Roger de Coverley

      Minor Notes:—Omission of Dei Gratia—Grace's Card—Florins—John Hopkins the Psalmist

      Notes in answer to Minor Queries:—Genealogy of European Sovereigns—Countess of Pembroke's Letter, Drayton's Poems, &c.—Viz. the corruption of Videlicot—Authors of Old Plays—Birthplace of Coverdale—Caraccioli

      QUERIES:—

      Love, the King's Fool

      Mare de Saham, &c.

      The Advent Bells

      The Poets

      Mr. Poore's Literary Collections, &c., by S. Britton

      The Middle Temple, by E. Foss

      Minor Queries:—Henry Lord Darnley—Coffee the Lacedaemonian Black Broth—Letters of Mrs. Chiffinch—Sangred—Dowts of Scripture—Catsup—Nation's Ballads—To endeavour Oneself—Date of Anonymous Ravennas—Battle of Towton—A Peal of Bells—Lines quotes by Goethe—MS. Sermons by Jeremy Taylor—Papers of John Wilkes—John Ross Mackay

      MISCELLANEOUS:—

      Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c.

      Books and Odd Volumes wanted

      Notices to Correspondents

      Advertisements

      WHAT BOOKS DID OTLOH WRITE?

      Sir,—In Dr. Maitland's able vindication of the Dark Ages (p. 419. 1st ed.), he concludes his interesting extract from the scribe Otloh's account of himself by saying:—One would like to know what books they were which Otlohnus thus multiplied; but this, perhaps, is now impossible. I have it accidentally in my power to identify two at least of the number; and if it was his universal practice to subscribe his name, as he does in these instances, a search into the principal repositories of MSS. would, no doubt, give a large list. A valuable MS. volume in my possession has been thus described by a learned Benedictine: Codex Membranaceus constans foliis 223 numerando; sæculis ix. desinente, x. et xi. incipiente, variis manibus scriptus, per partes qui in unum collectus, ex scriptis variis natidæ scripturæ carlovingicæ, varia continens: 1° Vita et Passio, seu Martirium S. Dionisii; scripta fuit ab Hilduino Abbate Coenobii S. Dionisii in Francia sub Ludovico Pio. It is said that Hilduinus was the first writer who gave the marvellous story of the saint carrying his own head in his hand for nearly two miles after his decapitation. But he tells us that he abridged his narration ex Græcam et Latinorum Historiis.

      2° Revelatio facta S. Stephano Papæ de consecratione altaris SS. Petri et Pauli ante Sepulchrum S. Martirii Dionisii quæ consecratio facta fuit v. kal. Aug. 754. This part of the MS. is remarkable for containing in one place the date written in Roman ciphers, thus—dccLiiii. v. kl. aug.; a circumstance so rare in MSS. of this age, as to have astonished the learned diplomatists Papebroch and Germon.

      3° Historia S. Simeonis Trevirensis Solitarii. Of whom it is recorded that he lived sub Poppone Episcopo Trevirense, in quædam cellula ad portam nigram sitâ. At fol. 36. an interesting account of the death of the saint is given by the author, who was present, and with the assistance of two other monks, piously performed his obsequies. It appears that the abbey of S. Maximin was about 120 paces from the cell of the saint at Treves, and it is therefore most probable that the writer was a monk of the Benedictine order then belonging to that foundation; but he puts his name out of doubt by the following couplet, inscribed at the end of the narrative:—

      "Presbiter et monachus OTLOH quidam vocitatus

      Sancte tibi librum BONIFACII tradidit istum."

      This dedication of his labours to S. Boniface may only indicate his veneration for the national saint; but, as he tells us he worked a great deal in the monastery at Fulda (of which S. Boniface was the patron saint and founder), may not this have been one of his labours there? At a subsequent period, it appears, he revised and amplified Wilibald's Life of Boniface.

      I must summarily indicate the other contents of this interesting MS., which are: 4. Passio SS Sebastiani et Vincentii. 5. Vita S. Burchardi. 6. Vita et Passio S. Kiliani (genere Scoti). 7. Vita S. Sole. 8. Vita S. Ciri. 9. Depositio S. Satiri. 10. Alphabetum Græcum. 11. Officio pro Choro cum notis musicis, pro festo S. Pancratii; sequitur ipsiis martiriis passio. 12. Vita S. Columbani [this is anonymous, but is attributed to his disciple Jonas, and contains much valuable historical matter]. Lastly, 13. Vita S. Wolfgangi, by the hand of our interesting scribe OTLOH, written at the instance of the Benedictine Coenobites of his monastery of

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