Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Buxtorf's Translation of Elias Levita's "Tub Taam"_ (Vol. iv., p.
272.).--This work was printed at Venice in 1538, in 4to. Münster
republished it in the next following year, with an epitome of its
contents in Latin. (G. B. de' Rossi, _Dizionario Storico, &c._, art.
"Levita.").
T. T.
Manchester.
_Stonehenge_ (Vol. iv., p. 57.).--P. P.'s objection to Sir R. C. Hoare's
derivation of _Stonehenge_ seems hardly justifiable. Surely the
horizontal stones there may be said to hang, μετέωροι, or
μετάρσιοι, sublime: as in the case of "Rocq Pendant" of
Alderney, the term "hanging" is loosely applied. That leans forth from
the cliff at a considerable angle out of the perpendicular, and is
"hanging," in another sense of the word, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa,
and as, in another acceptation, the famous terrace gardens of Babylon
are called the Hanging Gardens.
THEOPHYLACT.
_Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture_ (Vol. iv., p. 99.).--Referring
to this subject, allow me to add a Note I have from the will of Robert
Birkes, of Doncaster, alderman, proved at York, July 30, 1590, in
further illustration. The testator gives to his son Robert all "the
seeling work and portalls" in and about the house where he dwelt, "with
all doors, _glass windows_," &c., in full of his child's portion of his
goods; and then his _house_ he gave to his wife for her life. If by
"seeling work and portalls" are meant what we now understand by those
terms, the above extract shows that other essential parts of a house
besides glass windows were formerly considered as moveable chattels.
C. J.
_Fortune, infortune, fort une_ (Vol. iv., pp. 57. 142.).--The
explanation offered by a writer in the _Magasin Pittoresque_ for 1850,
seems perfectly clear without the proposed transposition of the adverb
_fort_ into _fait_ of your correspondent D. C.
If the sentence be read according to the French explanation D. C. has
quoted, viz. by reading _infortune_ as a verb, _fort_ the adverb to it,
it must be plain that the reading of the sentence must be:
"Fortune fort infortune une."
(Fortune very much afflicts one.)
If we turned _fort_ into _fait_, it would entirely spoil the sentence.
Query, But _is_ "infortuner" to be found as a verb in any old
dictionary? We have the adjective "infortuné," which looks much like a
participle.
J. C. W.
Francis Terrace, Kentish Town.
_Matthew Paris's "Historia Minor"_ (Vol. iv., p. 209.).--MR. SANSOM will
find the desired MS. in the British Museum, 14 C. vii. (Macray's _Manual
of Brit. Hist._, p. 26. Lond. 1845.)
R. G.
In the Cottonian library, Claudius D. vi. 9., will be found "Abbreviatio
compendiosa Chronicorum Angliæ, ab A'o 1000, ad A. 1255. Scripsit quidam
ad calcem, 'Hic desinit Mat. Paris Historia Minor, quæ est epitome
Majoris, quæ ad A.D. 1258 continuatur.'"
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