Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849

OUR PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS

NOTES

LATIN EPIGRAM AGAINST LUTHER AND ERASMUS

HALLAMS MIDDLE AGES—ALLEGED IGNORANCE OF THE CLERGY

ADVERSARIA

ORIGIN OF WORD "GROG."

ORIGIN OF WORD "GROG"—ANCIENT ALMS-BASINS

DYCE VERSUS WARBURTON AND COLLIER—AND SHAKSPEARE'S MSS

FOOD OF THE PEOPLE.—BILLS OF FARE IN 1683—HUMBLE PIE

BISHOP BARNABY

TRADE EDITIONS—COTTLE'S LIFE OF COLERIDGE

DIBDIN'S TYPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUITIES

QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 2. MADOC THE SON OF OWEN GWYNED

MADOC—HIS EXPEDITION TO AMERICA

MADOC'S EXPEDITION

QUERIES

"CLOUDS" OR SHROUDS, IN SHAKESPEARE

MEDAL OF THE PRETENDER

ROGER DE COVERLEY

HISTORY OF LANDED AND COMMERCIAL POLICY OF ENGLAND—HISTORY OF EDWARD II

THE REVEREND THOMAS LEMAN

GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE

KATHERINE PEGG

QUERIES IN MEDIÆVAL GEOGRAPHY

MYLES BLOOMFYLDE AND WILLIAM BLOMEFIELD'S METRICAL WRITINGS ON ALCHYMY

THYNNE'S COLLECTION OF CHANCELLORS

COLD HARBOUR

STATISTICS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

INCUMBENTS OF CHURCH LIVINGS

THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND—WHY IS THE NINE OF DIAMONDS SO CALLED?

NOTES OF BOOK SALES—CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

Отрывок из книги

Mr. Editor,—Your correspondent "Roterodamus" (pp. 27, 28) asks, I hope, for the author of the epigram which he quotes, with a view to a life of his great townsman, Erasmus. Such a book, written by some competent hand, and in an enlarged and liberal spirit, would be a noble addition to the literature of Europe. There is no civilised country that does not feel an interest in the labours and in the fame of Erasmus. I am able to answer your correspondents question, but it is entirely by chance. I read the epigram which he quotes several years ago, in a book of a kind which one would like to see better known in this country—a typographical or bibliographical history of Douay. It is entitled, "Bibliographie Douaisienne, ou Catalogue Historique et Raisonné des Livres imprimés à Douai depuis l'année 1563 jusqu'a nos jours, avec des notes bibliographiques et littéraires; Par H.R. Duthilloeul. 8vo. Douai, 1842." The 111th book noticed in the volume is entitled, "Epigrammata in Hæreticos. Authore Andrea Frusio, Societatis Jesu. Tres-petit in 8vo. 1596." The book is stated to contain 251 epigrams, "aimed," says M. Duthilloeul, "at the heretics and their doctrines. The author has but one design, which is to render odious and ridiculous, the lives, persons, and errors of the apostles of the Reformation." He quotes three of the epigrams, the third being the one your correspondent has given you. It has this title, "De Lutheri et Erasmi differentia," and is the 209th epigram in the book.

I have never met with a copy of the work of Frusius, nor do I know any thing of him as an author. The learned writer who pours out a store of curious learning in the pages of Gentleman's Magazine is more likely than any body that I know to tell you something about him.

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Christina of Sweden had quite a mania for writing in her books. In the library of the Roman College (at Rome) there are several books annotated by her, amongst others a Quintus Curtius, in which, as it would appear, she criticises very freely the conduct of Alexander. "He reasons falsely in this case," she writes on one page; and elsewhere, "I should have acted diametrically opposite; I should have pardoned;" and again, further on, "I should have exercised clemency;" an assertion, however, we may be permitted to doubt, when we consider what sort of clemency was exercised towards Monaldeschi. Upon the fly-leaf of a Seneca (Elzevir), she has written, "Adversus virtutem possunt calamitates damna et injuriæ quod adversus solem nebulæ possunt." The library of the Convent of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem at Rome, possesses a copy of the Bibliotheca Hispanu, in the first volume of which the same princess has written on the subject of a book relating to her conversion:* "Chi l'ha scritta, non lo sa; chi lo sa, non l'ha mai scritta."

Lemontey has published some very curious Memoirs, which had been entirely written on the fly-leaves and margins of a missal by J. de Coligny, who died in 1686.

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