Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Brass in All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne._--In the Church of All Saints,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (an erection dating at some period of the Protestant
dark ages), there is a magnificent Flemish brass, of which the incumbent
refuses to allow a rubbing to be taken, on the ground that the process
would _injure_ it! Can any of your correspondents tell me if it has been
engraved, and where?
J. H. B.
[There is a beautiful representation of the very curious plate of brass
inlaid on the table monument of Roger Thornton, the celebrated patron
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, temp. Henry IV., and still preserved in the
Church of All Saints in that town, engraved in Brand's _History of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne_, vol. i. p. 382. Mention is also made by that
author of another work containing it, entitled _Monuments in the
Churches of St. Nicholas and All Saints_.]
_Imperfect Bible._--A Bible has lately come into my possession in an
imperfect state. It is in black letter, 4to., with the capitals commencing
the chapters in Roman letters. I wish to know the date and printer. It
begins at fol. 7., at the end of the 6th verse of xvth chapter of Genesis,
"counted that to him for righteousness." There are a number of engravings
representing the instruments used in the temple and tabernacle, at fol. 36.
38. 40. 62. 160. &c. There is no date, but I think it is about 1590 or
1600.
AN IGNORAMUS ON THE SUBJECT.
[This imperfect Bible is one of the very numerous series of editions of
the Genevan or Puritan version, commonly called the Breeches Bible. It
is not a 4to. but a pot folio, having six leaves to the sheet or
signature, "Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker,
printer to the Queen's most excellent Maiestie, Anno Dom. 1595. _Cum
privilegio._" Our correspondent's copy wants the title and preface
(three leaves), six leaves of Genesis, the title to the N. Testament,
and at the end eleven leaves, including the two tables. The translation
may be identified by the last word of 1 Cor. vi. 9., or by 1 Tim. i.
10. There is another edition by the same printer, and of similar size,
in the year 1602; but the title to the second part has "conteineth,"
instead of "conteining."]
_The Poem of "Helga."_--At what date was this poem, by Herbert, written?
SELEUCUS.
[This poem was commenced, as the author states in his preface, "soon
after the publication of the translations which he made from the relics
of ancient Icelandic and Scandinavian poetry," issued in 1805.]
_"Merryweather's Tempest Prognosticator."_--I wish to know if there be a
book published entitled "Merryweather's Weather Prognostication?" I think,
if I mistake not, I saw it among the nautical instruments, &c. in the naval
department of the London Exhibition in 1851. I cannot find here if there be
any such book extant.
J. T. C.
Dublin.
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