Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Anonymous Ravennas_ (Vol. i., pp. 124. 220. 368.; Vol. iii., p.
462.).--Your correspondents have neglected to observe that this author's
Chorography of Britain was published by Gale, "ad calcem Antonini Iter
Britanniarum," viz., _Britanniæ Chorographia cum Autographo Regis Galliæ
Ms'o. et Codice Vaticano collata; Adjiciuntur conjecturæ plurimæ cum
nominibus locorum Anglicis, quotquot iis assignari potuerint_: Londini,
1709, 4to.
A copy of the edition of _Anonymi Ravennatis Geographiæ Libri Quinque_
(of the last of which the Chorography of Britain forms a part) noticed
by J. I. (Vol. i., p. 220.) is now before me; as also a later edition,
published by the editor's son, Abram Gronovius: Lugduni Batavorum, 1722,
8vo.
Horsley's _Britannia Romana_, book iii. chap. iv., contains "1. Some
account of this author and his work; 2. The Latin text of this
writer[2]; 3. Remarks upon many of the places mentioned by him, and more
particularly of such as seem to be the same with the stations per lineam
valli in the Notitia." His remarks are diametrically opposite to the
conjectures of Camden and Gale.
[Footnote 2: The Chorography from Gale's edition.]
T. J.
_Margaret Maultasch_ (Vol. iv., p. 56.).--Your correspondent who
inquires where he can meet with the particulars of the life of Margaret,
surnamed _Maultasch_, Countess of Tyrol, will find them in the
Supplement of the _Biographie Universelle_, vol. lxxiii. p. 136.
The great heiress in question, though a monster of ugliness, was twice
married: first to John Henry, son of Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia (1331),
from whom she procured a divorce on the plea of his incapacity; and,
secondly (1341), to Louis of Bavaria, eldest son of the Emperor Louis
IV., by whom she had a son, Mainard, who died without issue during his
mother's lifetime.
I know not upon what authority rest the imputed irregularities of her
life, but her biographer, in the article above mentioned, casts no such
slur upon her character. Nor can I discover that the armorial bearings
of the town of Halle, in Tyrol, have any such significant meaning as has
been hinted at. They are to be found in Matthew Merian's _Topographia
Provinciarum Austriacarum_, printed at Frankfort on the Maine in 1649,
engraved on the view of Halle, at p. 139., and appear to be _a cask or
barrel, supported by two lions_. There is _no_ statue of Margaret
Maultasch among those which surround the mausoleum of Emperor
_Maximilian_ (not _Matthias_) in the Franciscan church at Inspruck; but
her ludicrously hideous features may be found amongst the historical
portraits engraved in the magnificent work descriptive of the Museum of
Versailles, published a few years ago at Paris, under the auspices of
King Louis Philippe.
W. S.
Denton, July 28.
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