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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 139, 



Pandecte, an entire Copy of the Bible (Vol. v., 

 p. 557.). — Your correspondent C. H. has noticed 

 this word ; I send you a short account of the Irish 

 MSS. in the Bodleian Library, which I laid some 

 time ago before the Royal Irish Academy, and 

 which is printed in their Proceedings^ vol. v. p. 1 62. 

 I have there noticed a curious work by Oengus 

 Cele De, or Oengus the Culdee, a writer of the 

 eighth century, in which the word Pandecte (or, as 

 tlie Irish scribe spells it, Pantecte') is used in the 

 same sense as that in which Alcuin employs it, for 

 the Bibliotheca, or Bible of St. Jerome. 



I have marked the passage, pp. 9, 1 0. of the en- 

 closed paper, which if you think it worth while 

 you may insert. But perhaps it may be enough 

 to refer your readers to the above-mentioned 

 volume of the Proceedings of the Royal Irish 

 Academy. Jas. H. Todd. 



Trin. Coll. Dublin. 



:^t^cenane0u*, 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



• If among the writers of the present day there is one 

 whose opinion with regard to Robin Hood and the 

 cycle of ballads of which that renowned outlaw is the 

 hero would be looked for with anxiety and received 

 with respect, it is the Rev. Joseph Hunter, a gentleman 

 in whom are happily combined that thorough his- 

 torical and antiquarian knowledge, and that sound 

 poetic taste which are required to do justice to so 

 interesting a theme. The announcement, therefore, 

 that the fourth of Mr. Hunter's Critical and Historical 

 Tracts is entitled The Great Hero of the Ancient 

 Minstrelsy of England, Robin Hood. His Period, real 

 Character, §•£., investigated, and perhaps ascertained, 

 will be received with welcome by all who rejoice " that 

 the world was very guilty of such ballads some three 

 ages since," and who, loving them and their hero, 

 would fain know something of the history on which 

 they are founded. Mr, Hunter dissents, and we think 

 rightly, from two popular and recent theories upon the 

 subject, — the one, that which elevates Robin Hood into 

 the chief of a small body of Saxons impatient of their 

 subjection to the Norman rule ; the other, that which 

 reduces him to one among the " personages of the early 

 mythology of the Teutonic people," Mr. Hunter, on 

 the other hand, identifies him with one " Robyn 

 Hood" who entered the service of Edward II. a little 

 before Christmas 1323, and continued therein some- 

 what less than a twelvemonth : 



" Alas then said good Robyn, 



Alas and well a woo. 

 If I dwele longer with the kynge 



Sorowe wyli me sloo : " 

 and the evidence which he adduces in favour of our 

 popular hero having been one of the Contrariantes of 

 the reign of the Second Edward ; and the coincidences 

 which he points out between the minstrel testimony of 

 the Little Geste and the testimony of records of different 

 kinds and lying in different places, will, we are sure, 

 be read with great interest even by those who may not 



think that our author has quite succeeded in unmasking 

 the " Junius " of those olden times. 



Richmondshire, its Ancient Lords and Edifices : a 

 Concise Guide to the Localities of Interest to the Tourist 

 and Antiquary ; with short Notes of Memorable Men, by 

 W. Hylton Longstaffe, is a pleasant, chatty, and amus- 

 ing guide to a beautiful locality, which the author 

 describes as " the capital of a land whose riches of 

 romance are scarcely exceeded by any other in England, 

 the chosen seat of its own Earls, the Scropes, Fitz- 

 hughs, Marmions ; and those setters up and pullers 

 down of kings, the richest, noblest, and most prudent 

 race of the North, the lordly Nevilles : " and which 

 as such may well tempt the tourist and antiquary to 

 visit it during the coming autumn. Those who do 

 will find Mr. Longstaffe's little volume a pleasant 

 companion. 



Books Received. — The second volume of Charlotte 

 A. Eaton's Rome in the Nineteenth Century, containing 

 a Complete Account of the Ruins of the Ancient City, the 

 Remains of the Middle Ayes, and the Monuments of 

 Modern Times, which completes this lady's excellent 

 guide to the Eternal City. — The second volume of 

 Miss Thomasina Ross's well-executed translation of 

 Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equi- 

 noctial Regions of America during the Years 1799—1804, 

 is the new volume of Bohn's Scientific Library, — The 

 Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Con- 

 stitution and Course of Nature ; to which are added Two 

 Brief Dissertations ; on Personal Identity, and on the 

 Nature of Virtue ; and Fifteen Sermons, by Joseph 

 Butler, D.C.L., late Lord Bishop of Durham. — The 

 new volume of Bohn's Standard IJbrary is deserving 

 of especial mention. It is a reprint of Bishop Halifax's 

 Standard Edition, with the addition of Analytical In- 

 troductions, and- Notes by a Member of the University 

 of Oxford ; and we have no doubt will be found a 

 really useful popular edition, such as may allure to the 

 careful study of one of the best works in our language 

 those minds which, without such help, might shrink, 

 from the task. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO FUKCHASB. 



Mahon's England, 4 Vols. 

 Scott's Ladv of the Lake. 



L»Y OF THE Last Minstrei..' 



Mabmion. 



The original 4to. editions in boards. 

 Flanagan on the Round Towers op Ireland. 4to. 1843. 

 A Narrative of the Proceedings in the Douglas Cause. 



London, Griffin. 8to. 1767. 

 Clare's Poems. Fcap. 8vo. Last edition. 

 Mallet's Elvira. 

 Maona Charta ; a Sermon at the Funeral of Lady Farewell, by 



George Newton. London, 1661 . 

 Chaucer's Poems. Vol. I. Aldine Edition. 

 BiBLiA Sacra, Vulg. Edit., cum Commentar. Menochii. Alost 



and Ghent, 1826. Vol. L 

 Barante, Dues DB Bourgogne. Vols. L and XL 1st, 2nd, or 



3rd Edit. Paris. Ladvocat, 1825. 

 Biographia Americana, by a Gentleman of Philadelphia. 

 Potgieseri de CoNDiTioNE Servorum apud Germanos. 8v9. 



Col. Agrip. 

 The Comedies of Shadwell may be had on application to tho 



Publisher of " N. & Q." 

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