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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850
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| No. 56. | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1850. | Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| NOTES:— | |
| The Oldenburg Horn | 417 |
| Greek Particles Illustrated by the Eastern Languages | 418 |
| Samuel Rowlands, and his Claim to the Authorship of "The Choise of Change," by Dr. E.F. Rimbault | 419 |
| Etymology of "Apricot," "Peach," and "Nectarine" | 420 |
| Minor Notes:—Chaucer's Monument Robert Herrick—Epitaph of a Wine Merchant—Father Blackhal—The Nonjurors—Booksellers' Catalogues—Bailie Nicol Jarvie—Camels in Gaul | 420 |
| QUERIES:— | |
| Bibliographical Queries | 421 |
| Dryden's "Essay upon Satire" | 422 |
| Minor Queries:—Ænius Silvius (Pope Pius II.)—"Please the Pigs"—To save one's Bacon—Arabic Numerals—Cardinal—"By the bye"—Poisons—Cabalistic Author—Brandon the Juggler—Jacobus Præfectus Siculus—The Word "after" in the Rubric—Hard by—Thomas Rogers of Horminger—Armorial Bearings—Lady Compton's Letter to her Husband—Romagnasi's Works—Christopher Barker's Device | 423 |
| REPLIES:— | |
| Licensing of Books, by C.H. Cooper | 425 |
| Remains of James II., by Dr. J.R. Wreford | 427 |
| Judge Cradock, by H.T. Ellacombe | 427 |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Replies by George Stephens: On a Passage in the "Tempest;" Legend of a Saint; Cupid and Psyche; Kongs Skuggsia—Disputed Passage in the "Tempest"—Viscount Castlecomer—Steele's Burial-place—Cure for Warts—Etymology of "Parse" | 429 |
| MISCELLANEOUS:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. | 430 |
| Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | 431 |
| Notice to Correspondents | 431 |
| Advertisements | 431 |
NOTES.
THE OLDENBURG HORN.
The highly interesting collection of pictures at Combe Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Craven, in Warwickshire, was, for the most part, bequeathed by Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, the daughter of James I., to her faithful attendant, William, Earl of Craven. The collection has remained, entire and undisturbed, up to the present time. Near the upper end of the long gallery is a picture which doubtless formed a part of the bequest of the Queen of Bohemia, and of which the following is a description:—
Three quarters length: a female figure, standing, with long curling light hair, and a wreath of flowers round the head. She wears a white satin gown, with a yellow edge; gold chain on the stomacher, and pearl buttons down the front. She has a pearl necklace and earrings, with a high plaited chemisette up to the necklace; and four rows of pearls, with a yellow bow, round the sleeve. She holds in her hands a large highly ornamented gold horn. The back-ground consists of mountains. Underneath the picture is this inscription:
"Anno post natum Christum 939. Ottoni comiti Oldenburgico in venatione vehementer sitibundo virgo elegantissima ex monte Osen prodiens cornu argenteum deauratum plenum liquore ut biberet obtulit. Inspecto is liquore adhorruit, ac eundum bibere recusavit. Quo facto, subito Comes a virgine discedens liquorem retro super equum quem mox depilavit effudit, cornuque hic depictum secum Oldenburgum in perpetuam illius memoriam reportavit. Lucretio de Sainct Simon pinxit."
The painting is apparently of the first part of the seventeenth century. The ordinary books of reference do not contain the painter's name.
The same legend as that contained in this inscription, though with fuller details, is given by the brothers Grimm, in their collection of Deutsche Sagen, No. 541. vol. ii. p. 317., from two Oldenburg chronicles. According to this version Otto was Count of Oldenburg in the year 990 or 967. [The chronicles appear to differ as to his date: the inscription of the Combe Abbey picture furnishes a third date.] Being a good hunter, and fond of hunting, he went, on the 20th of July, in this year, attended by his nobles and servants, to hunt in the forest of Bernefeuer. Here he found a deer, and chased it alone from this wood to Mount Osen: but in the pursuit he left his companions and even his dogs behind; and he stood alone, on his white horse, in the middle of the mountain. Being now