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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Vol. IV.—No. 97. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 97.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
Transcribers' note: Classical languages (Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew) in this issue have been rendered as close to the original print as possible.
CONTENTS.
NOTES:—
Notes on Books, No. II.—Gabriel Harvey, by S. W. Singer 169
The Antiquity of Kilts, by T. Stephens 170
Notes on Julin, No. I., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 171
Minor Notes:—Anecdote of Curran—Difficulty of getting rid of a Name—House of Lord Edward Fitzgerald—Fairy Dances—Æsop—Nelson's Coat at Trafalgar 173
QUERIES:—
John Knox, by David Laing 174
Minor Queries:—"Fœda ministeria, atque minis absistite acerbis"—Cornish Arms and Cornish Motto—Gloucester saved from the King's Mines—Milesian—Horology—Laurentius Müller—Lines on a Bed—Pirog—Lists of Plants, with their Provincial Names—Print Cleaning—Italian Writer on Political Economy—Carli the Economist—Nightingale and Thorn—Coleridge's Essays on Beauty—Henryson and Kinaston—Oldys' Account of London Libraries—A Sword-blade Note—Abacot—Princesses of Wales 174
MINOR QUERIES ANSWERED:— A Kelso Convoy—Cardinal Wolsey—Brunswick Mum—Meaning of "Rasher" 176
REPLIES:—
Pendulum Demonstration of the Earth's Rotation 177
A Saxon Bell-house 178
The Whale of Jonah, by T. J. Buckton 178
St. Trunnian, by W. S. Hesleden 179
Replies to Minor Queries:—Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor—Did Bishop Gibson write a Life of Cromwell?—Lines on the Temple—Henry Headley, B. A.—Cycle of Cathay—Proof of Sword Blades—Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?—English Sapphics—The Tradescants—Monumental Inscription—Lady Petre's Monument 180
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 182
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 183
Notices to Correspondents 183
Advertisements 183
Notes.
NOTES ON BOOKS, NO. II.—GABRIEL HARVEY.
This learned friend of Spenser and Sir Philip Sydney (though better known from his quarrel with Tom Nashe) was in the habit of writing copious memoranda in his books, several of which were in the library of Mr. Lloyd, of Wygfair. Among them some miscellaneous volumes, which I believe afterwards passed into the collection of Mr. Heber, contained remarkable specimens of his calligraphic skill. His name was written four or five times: "Gabriel Harveins, 1579," and with variation, "Gabrielis Harveij" and "di Gabriello Haveio." The volumes contained the Medea and Giocasta of Lodovico Dolce, in Italian; the Hecuba and Iphigenia of Euripides in Latin, by Erasmus, the Comedies of Terence, &c.; and the first Italian and English Grammar, by Henry Grantham, 1575. On the blank pages and spaces what follows was inscribed:—
"La Giocasta d' Euripide, Dolce, et Gascoigno. Senecæ et Statii Thebais. Item Senecæ Œdipus. Quasi Synopsis Tragœdiarum omnium.—NON GIOCO, MA GIOCASTA."
"Omne genus scripti, gravitate Tragœdia vincit."
"Hæ quatuor Tragœdiæ, instar omnium Tragœdiarum pro tempore: præsertim cum reliquarum non suppetit copia. Duæ Euripidis placent in primis, et propter auctoris prudentissimam veram, et propter interpretis singularem delectum. Eadem