Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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[We have an edition before us, printed at Noribergæ, 1599, to the end
of the Book of Ruth, but without the Sclavonic column. According to
Ebert (_Bibliog. Dict._) there is "a fourfold edition, differing only
in the last column, and goes only as far as the Book of Ruth. Scarce,
but of no value. The edition with the {135} Sclavonic column is the
most scarce." In 1600, Hutter published a Polyglott of the New
Testament, in twelve languages, viz. the Syriac, Hebrew, Greek, Latin,
German, Bohemian, Italian, Spanish, French, English, Danish, and
Polish; which, in an edition printed in 1603, were reduced to the
Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and German. He died at Nuremberg, about 1603.]
_Ethnology of England._--Will any of your readers favour me with a
reference to the best work or works which refer to the ethnology of this
island, more particularly in reference to the craniology of the different
races which have settled in it?
I beg to ask whether it is yet clearly settled that there are types of the
heads of Ancient Britons, Saxons, Danes, and other races, to be referred to
as standards or examples of the respective crania of those people? If so,
will any of your readers be kind enough to direct me to any work which
contains engraved outlines of such crania?
ETHNOLOGICUS.
[ETHNOLOGICUS is referred to the works of Dr. Prichard and Dr. Latham;
more especially to _The Ethnology of the British Islands_, by the
last-named writer, noticed in our 170th Number, p. 120. That types of
the heads of the Ancient Britons, Saxons, Danes, &c. are to be found,
there can be no doubt, though they have never hitherto been brought
together for comparison. To do this is the object of the projected
_Crania Britannica_, about to be published by Dr. Thurnam of Devizes,
and Mr. J. B. Davis, of which some particulars will be found at p. 497.
of our Sixth Volume.]
_Pitt of Pimperne._--Can any of your readers tell me what works of Mr.
Pitt, formerly Rector of Pimperne, Dorset, and translator of Virgil's
_Æneid_, &c., have been printed?
W. BARNES.
Dorchester
[In addition to the _Æneid_, Christopher Pitt translated Veda's _Art of
Poetry_, about 1724; and subsequently published a volume of _Poems and
Translations_, 8vo. 1727. His _Poems_ will be found in the twelfth
volume of Chalmers's Collection.]
_"The Bottle Department" of the Beer-trade_ was evidently _terra incognita_
in those days:
"He that buys land buys many stones;
He that buys flesh buys many bones;
He that buys eggs buys many shells;
But he that buys good ALE buys nothing else."
"A favourite proverbial rhyme among topers," quoth that most amusing of
lexicographers, old N. Bailey, [Greek: Philologos], who inserts it under
the word "Buy," folio edition.
Query, What was his Christian name?
BALLIOLENSIS.
[Nathan Bailey. A short account of him will be found in Chalmers's
_Biog. Dict._]
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