Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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The chapters are divided generally into four or five parts by means of the
first letters of the alphabet. The letters are neither placed equidistant,
nor do they always mark a fresh paragraph.
It is not divided into verses. There are a few marginal references, and the
chapter and letter of the parallel passages are given.
Crosses are placed at the heads of most chapters, and also throughout the
text, without much apparent regularity. It contains a few rude cuts of the
Apostles, &c. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. John are placed before that
to the Hebrews.
Letters are frequently omitted in the spelling, and this is indicated by a
dash placed over the one preceding the omitted letter. A slanting mark (/)
is the most frequent stop used. I will transcribe a few lines exactly as
they occur, only not using the black-letter.
"B. As some spake of the temple/ howe yt was garnesshed with goodly
stones and iewels he sayde. The dayes will come/ when of these thyngis
which ye se shall not be lefte stone upon stone/ that shall not be
throwen doune. And they asked hym sayinge/ Master wh[=e] shall these
thynges be? And what sygnes wil there be/ when suche thynges shal come
to passe."--St. Luke, ch. xxi.
Land is spelt _londe_; saints, _sainctis_; authority, _auctorite_, &c.
A. BOARDMAN.
P.S. It commences at the 19th chapter of St. Matthew, and seems perfect to
the 21st chapter of Revelation.
* * * * *
Minor Queries.
_Ravilliac_.--I have read that a pyramid was erected at Paris upon the
murder of Henry IV. by Ravilliac, and that the inscription represented the
Jesuits as men--
"Maleficae superstitonis, quorum instinctu peculiaris adolescens
(Ravilliac) dirum facinus instituerat."--_Thesaur. Hist._, tom. iv.
lib. 95, ad ann. 1598.
We are also informed that he confessed that it was the book of Mariana the
Jesuit, and the traitorous positions maintained in it, which induced him to
murder the king, for which cause the book (condemned by the parliament and
the Sorbonne) was publicly burnt in Paris. Is the pyramid still remaining?
If not, when was it taken down or destroyed, and by whom or by whose
authority?
CLERICUS (D).
_Emblem on a Chimney-piece_.--In the committee room of the Church
Missionary Society, Nos. 16. and 17. Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, a
curious emblem-picture is carved on the centre of the white marble
chimney-piece. An angel or winged youth is sleeping in a recumbent posture;
one arm embraces a sleeping lion, in the other hand he holds a number of
bell flowers. In the opposite angle the sun shines brightly; a lizard is
biting the heel of the sleeping youth. I shall not offer my own conjectures
in explanation of this allegorical sculpture, unless your correspondents
fail to give a more satisfactory solution.
ATH CELIATH.
_"To know ourselves diseased," &c_.--
"To know ourselves diseased, is half the cure."
Whence?
C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
Birmingham.
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