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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'"» S. VIII. Sept. 17. '59. 



the word itacism. It occurs several times in the 

 review of the edition of the Vatican manuscript 

 of the New Testament, by the late Cardinal Mai, 

 in the last number of Titan. The meaning of the 

 word appears to be interchange of vowels — such 

 as a for e, o for o, &c. ; but 1 have not been, able 

 to discover its derivation. E. D. K. 



\_Itacisin. originally signified the pronunciation of tlie 

 <5reek rj as t, so that eta became ita. This mode of pro- 

 nunciation is now stated to have been for some j'ears 

 publicly adopted in France. If we rightlj' understand, it 

 hrings the French pronunciation of eta to ours, that of ee 

 in peel. Otherwise, the continental pronunciation of eta 

 is that of a in liare. But farther, and in a more extended 

 sense, itacism is the faultj' substitutionn^ ij for ot, ei, i, 

 V, or of these for that. It appears from our correspon- 

 dent's communication that, in the publication to which 

 he refers, itacism is used in a meaning still more com- 

 prehensive.! 



Filleroy. — " He showed me a little square 

 building surmounted with filleroy." {Connoisseur, 

 No. 33.) What was this ? Dubius. 



[On a careful reference to three editions of the Connois- 

 seur, namely, 1. the editio princeps, fo. 1755 ; 2. edit. 1788 

 •(vol. vi. of Harrison's British Classicks') ; and 3. edit. 

 1823 (vol. XXV. of Chalmers's British Essai/ists') ; we find 

 that the " little square building " in the citizen's garden 

 was " sitrrounded with fiileroj'," not " surmounted" with it. 

 The filleroy, which surrounded the said little building (or 

 "temple"') was phillerei/, 'L. phyUeria ox pliyllyrhaa, Fr. Jilaria 

 or philaria, — commonly chilled mock privet. " Ph3'lleria, 

 phillerey, the name of a genus of plants," Suppt. to Cham- 

 bers, Cyclop., 1753 ; " Phillyria, mock privet," Webster ; 

 " Filaria, mock privet .... toujours vert," Flem. & Tibb. 

 Both the mock privet and the privet proper, from the 

 density of their foliage, are peculiarly available for sur- 

 rounding such " little buildings " as tliat in question, and 

 accordingly one constantly sees them so emploj-ed in 

 rustic gardens. The evergreen sorts are evidently the 

 best, as they answer their purpose in winter as well as 

 summer.] 



ZACHARY BOTD. 



(2°* S. viii. 10.) 



In reply to J. O. it certainly would have been 

 to me a source of much pleasure to have furnished 

 him with " any precise information regarding the 

 dates and peculiarities of the several editions of 

 *' The Psalmes of David in Meeter, by the INlinis- 

 ter of the Baronie Churcb," Mr. Zachary Boyd, if 

 I had been so qualified; but I fear to be able only 

 in a very inadequate manner to respond to his 

 inquiries, and particularly to a con*espondent of 

 " N. & Q." who has formerly shown himself so 

 enlightened in curious old " Bokes." 



As the result of some '■^diggings in this old 

 field," perhaps it may not be thought altogether 

 egotistical in me to state that as a kind of "labour 

 of love" to the memory of a neglected Author so 

 much respected amongst us, I edited in 1831, for 

 subscribers, a fac-simile reprint of 300 copies. 



Glasgow, Svo., pp. 476 of his "Last Battellof the 

 Sovle in Death, Printed at Edinburgh by the 

 Heires of Andro Hart, 1629," a most original, va- 

 luable volume of 1336 pages, which had become 

 so scarce as to be on the eve of being lost to the 

 world. To the new edition I prefixed a Biogra- 

 phical Sketch of the Author, with some Account 

 of his Printed Works, prose and poetical, and a 

 detailed Catalogue of his large collection of MSS., 

 as deposited in the Library of the University of 

 Glasgow, together pp. xlviii. In 1831 little was 

 known of the author, except through some scat- 

 tered, incidental notices, and nothing almost of his 

 MS. works. The former, along with new facts 

 and information progressively picked up, I 

 wrought into a more accurate and complete bio- 

 graphical chain than in 1831, and at a leisure mo- 

 ment, in 1855, published them in 400 copies, fcap. 

 4to., Glasgow, Printed by George Richardson, in- 

 cluding " Four Poems from Zioti's Flowers,^' (his 

 so-called "Bible"), edited froni his MS. in the 

 University of Glasgow, in whole pp. 255. The 

 author has now, in some degree, been restored to 

 society, and it affords me occasionally much satis- 

 faction to observe that in several literary produc- 

 tions of modern times, he has obtained a place 

 among other celebrated men of his age. It is to 

 be hoped that the Faculty of the University will 

 do him more justice than he has hitherto received, 

 by the printing of his " Workes," for which he 

 bequeathed funds to be appropriated to that pur- 

 pose, never applied, so far as has yet been dis- 

 covered ; and for the Documents connected with 

 this mysterious subject, see the vjorh last above re- 

 f erred to, pp. 22 — 28 of "Introduction," and "Ap- 

 pendix," pp. xxiii. — XXX. 



In relation to the "Psalmes" in question, I 

 heard, in 1831, that he had published three or 

 four editions of a metrical version, but from the 

 extreme rarity of his printed books the difficulty 

 was to find any copy of his Psalter : I, however, 

 succeeded at last in obtaining one which was ge- 

 nerally believed to be the third edition (and as 

 such inserted N° 17 in List of his Printed \Vo7-ks), 

 12mo., Glasgow, 1646, from which, in the reprint 

 first above named at p. xliv., I gave a few speci- 

 mens of the Psalms, and also of " The Songs of 

 the Old and New Testament." The two editions 

 of his Psalter, said to have been previous to 1646, 

 I have never been so fortunate as to see ; nor are 

 they noted by the Kev. H. Cotton, or any other 

 bibliographer whom I have happened to examine. 

 Indeed, from the topic having to some extent 

 worn out of memory, I have only lately had an 

 opportunity of consulting the edition of 1648, 

 with " the Prose interlined," quoted by J. O., 

 which latter I'think to be a peculiarity not. of the 

 1646 edition. This of 1648 may doubtlessly be 

 concluded upon as the final and crowning work 

 " of the travclls of Mr. Zachary in this line," ac- 



