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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''<» S. X. Dec. 1. '60. 



Latin Bible. — In Great Gaddesden Church, 

 CO. Herts, there is a very fine and perfect folio 

 copy of a Latin Bible with the following title- 

 page : — 



" Biblia Sacrosancla Testameti Veterls et Noui, h 

 sacra Hebraeorum Lingua Grsecorumque fontibus, con- 

 sultis simul orthodoxis interpretib. religiosissime translata 

 in Sermonem Latinuni. Authores omneniq; totius operis 

 rationem ex subiecta Intelliges PrsEfatione." (Here oc- 

 curs a figure of a palm-tree with a scroll bearing these 

 words: Christof Froshover zv Zurich.) Paulus Rom. xv. 

 Tigure excudebat C. Froschoverus, anno mdxliil" 



I shall be glad if any of your correspondents 

 can give me any information respecting the value 

 or rarity of this edition. A^. 



[This is the celebrated Tigurine Bible, made bj' the 

 divines of Zurich. The Old Testament is principallj- the 

 work of Leo Juda, who was engaged upon tlie translation 

 for upwards of eighteen years. He did not live to com- 

 plete the whole. Theodore Bibliander translated the 

 last eight chapters of Ezechiol, the Book of Job, the last 

 48 Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles. The New Testa- 

 ment is Erasmus's translation, revised and corrected by 

 Eodolph Gualter. The whole of the work was revised 

 and edited by Conrad Pellican. See a full description of 

 it in Bibliotheca Susscxiana, vol. i. part ii. p. 410. The 

 Duke of Sussex's copy fetched 2/. IDs.] 



John Fletcher, Poet. — In Pennant's London, 

 the age to which John Fletcher the poet lived is 

 stated to have been forty- nine, whereas in Beau- 

 mont and Fletcher, published by Mr. Bohn, it is 

 stated that he died at forty-six. Which is cor- 

 rect ? Is there extant any copy of an epitaph or 

 inscription on the above John Fletcher ? 



Epitaph. 



[The account of John Fletcher in Kippis's^/o^r. i?/(7aw. 

 ii. 89. appears carefully compiled, and states that this 

 poet was born in 1576, and died in 1G25, in the fortj'- 

 ninth 3'ear of his age. In the burial register of St. Mary 

 Over}', Southwark, is the following entry: " 1G25, Au- 

 guste 29. Mr. John Ffletcher a man in the church." 

 VVm. Oldys has also the following note in his annotated 

 Langhaine : " As Fletcher was retiring into the country, 

 he waited in the borough of Southwark for his taylor to 

 bring him a new suit of clothes, when Death stopped his 

 journey in that sickly time of the plague, and laid him 

 down there. He was buried in St. Mary Overy's church 

 without any memorial. The said taj'lor was the parish 

 clerk there in 1670, aged above eighty j'ears, and told 

 this particular to Mr. John Aubre}-, who has recorded 

 the same in his Natural Hist, and Antia. of Surreii, 8vo. 

 1719, vol. v. p. 210.] 



Sanskrit MSS. — What became of the valu- 

 able collection of Sanskrit MSS. belonging to the 

 late Sir Robert Chambers, Chief Justice of Ben- 

 gal, of which his widow printed a catalogue in 1838, 

 to which was appended a brief memoir of that 

 eminent judge ? The MSS. are said to have ex- 

 ceeded 700 in number, and it was hoped that 

 some institution either at home or abroad would 

 purchase the whole of them, and keep them toge- 

 ther. E. H.A. 



[This collection of Sanskrit MSS. was purchased for the 

 Boyal Library at Berlin.] 



Letter to Preachers, 1548. — Can you in- 

 form me whether any copy exists of The Copie of 

 a Letter sent to all those Preachers which the 

 King's Majesty hath licensed to preach, dated 23rd 

 day of May, and printed June 1st, 1548, both by 

 Berthelet and Grafton ? The book is noticed by 

 Ames as a 12mo., but it could not have filled 

 more than half a sheet. Nicholas Pocock. 



[A copy of this Letter is in the Lambeth Librar3', 

 xxxi. 9. 3. (8.) It is also printed among the Records iu 

 Burnet's History of the Reformation, ed. 1829, vol. ii. pt. 

 ii. No. 24., p. 189.] 



CHANCELS. 

 (2»« S. X. 68. 118. 253. 312. 357. £93.) 



After the remarks of H. A., your other corre- 

 spondents will probably agree with me in thinking 

 that the orientation theory may be allowed to 

 drop. Against the symbolism theoi-y, H. A. in- 

 vokes the high authority of Pugin. 



I find that there are in Paris two churches in 

 which the deviation from a straight line exists in 

 a very marked manner — St. Germain des Pros 

 and St. Etienne du Mont. 



With respect to St. Germain des Pres (a work 

 of the twelfth century), M. de Guilhermy, in his 

 Itineraire Archeologique de Paris, has the following 

 note : — 



" Lorsque de I'entree de I'eglise on porte ses regards 

 vers I'extremite de I'abside on est frappe d'une deviation 

 notable dans I'axe du monument. Le chevet flechitd'unc 

 maniere tres-sensible vers le levant d'hiver. Nous sommes 

 persuade que cctte irregularity tient h des difiicuUes 

 de construction, comme 11 s'en rencontre toujours quand 

 il s'agit d'asseoir un edifice au milieu de bailments 

 plus anciens, et qu'elle no provient nullement d'un parti 

 pris de rappeler la position du Christ sur la croix." — 

 P. 136. 



With respect to St. Etienne du Mont, the same 

 author expresses himself as follows: — 



" Un defaut d'ulignement assez visible existe entre la 

 nef et le choeur. L'axe n'est pas exactement lo meme 

 pour ces deux parties de I'edifice. La conformation du 

 terrain, les reprises successives de la construction, le 

 voisinage de I'eglise Sainte-Genevieye sont, h, not re avis, 

 les seules causes de cette irregularitc. Nous ne pouvons 

 nous resoudre a y voir un raflinement de symbolisme, qui 

 n'etait guere dans les idees du xvi<= siecle." — P. 193. 



It will be seen that though M. de Guilhermy 

 does not dispose of the idea of symbolism in so 

 summary a manner as Pugin, still he looks upon 

 it with but little favour ; and, at least in a build- 

 ing of the sixteenth century, he considers it to 

 be utterly inadmissible. 



But if the two theories usually assigned are 

 rejected, how are we to account for the practice — 

 a practice which appears to have existed for 

 several hundred years ? M. de Guilhermy is dis- 

 posed to attribute the deviation to dilHculties of 



