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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»d s. X. Nov. 24. '60. 



"Taprobane," "They hunt tigers, oliphants, and 

 panthers, of the which there is great plentie." 



B. H. C. 

 The Stationers of the Middle Ages (2"'* S. 

 X. 347.) — The Cjclopjedist has certainly drawn 

 on his imagination for his description of the nor- 

 mal mode of transacting business by the stationers 

 of the Middle Ages. Du Cange gives us various 

 meanings of the word " Stationarius," among the 

 rest : — « 



" Stationarii, Librorum venditores, Librarii, h stationi- 

 bus seu officinis librariis: Anglice Stationers, quomadb 

 appellabant mercium vilissimarum institores, qui in foro 

 stationes liabebant. Statutuni Universitatis Parisiensis 

 promulgatum anno 1275. De Stationariis, sive Librariis : 

 ut Stationarii, qui vulgo appellantur, sive Librarii .... 

 corporale praecedant sacramentum, quod libros recipiendo 

 venales, custodiendo, exponeudb eosdem et vendendo . . . 

 fideliter et legitime se habebunt." 



This solemn oath imposed on the stationers would 

 effectually preclude the alleged practice of dividing 

 books into detached parts, and lending out the 

 fragments at exorbitant prices. 



Du Cange gives us another name for " Stationa- 

 rius Apothecarius." '■''Statio, Apotheca, Boutique : 

 Stationarius, Apothecarius." It is curious to ob- 

 serve how a word comes to be at length restricted 

 from a general to a very particular meaning. 

 Apothecary now means exclusively a vendor of 

 drugs ; whereas, strictly speaking, whoever keeps 

 a shop, store, magazine, or warehouse, in which he 

 deposits goods of any kind, is an apothecary ; and, 

 par excellence, a farmer ! The more common 

 meaning of airodrjKT) with the Greeks was a barn : 

 so that that noble specimen of a Briton an Eng- 

 lish farmer is, according to the strict derivation 

 of the word, an apothecary. John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



Splitting Paper (2"'* S. ix. 427.) — I lately 

 found, in the official Catalogue of the Great Exhi- 

 bition, directions for splitting paper, which Este 

 may find useful : — 



" Two pieces of calico are firmly cemented on the sides 

 of the paper, and dried. By a gentle pull on each side, 

 the paper splits into halves: the adhesion between the 

 paper and the calico being greater than that of the sur- 

 faces of the paper to each other. The split portions may 

 be removed by damping, and so loosening the paste be- 

 tween the calico and paper." 



F. L. 



"Theatre op Ingenuity" (2""* S. x. 268.) — 

 Is the book alluded to under this title by Mb. In- 

 GLis a translation of Edonis Neuhusii Theatrum 

 Ingenii Humani, sive de Cognoscenda Hominum 

 indole et secretis Animi moribus, libri duo. Ams- 

 telodami cIoIoclxiv. ? May I, in my turn, ask 

 for some particulars of Edo Neuhaus, or Neuhu- 

 sius, the author of this book ? I gather from the 

 dedicatory preface that it first appeared about 

 forty-six years previously. William Bates. 



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