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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



i:2n<i S. N« 94., Oct. 17. '67. 



thirty-six. Coverdale lived to the age of eighty- 

 one, and died in 1580. Possibly he might have 

 translated the remainder of the Old Testament. 

 Farther information will oblige Henei. 



[The Bible was published in English by Coverdale in 



1535, and by TjMidale's friends in 1537. In the latter 

 edition at the end of Malachi, are Tyndale's initials in 

 flourished ornamented capitals. In 1539, these transla- 

 tions were revised under the direction of Archbishop 

 Cranmer and Lord Cromwell, and the new edition was 

 called " The Great Bible." The Book of Common Prayer 

 was first printed in 1549, and the Psalter, with the Epistles 

 and Gospels, was of course copied from the then author- 

 ised version of 1539. On the revision of the Book of 

 Common Prayer in 1661, it was ordered that the Epistles 

 and Gospels should be taken from the authorised version 

 of the Bible of 1611 ; but the Psalter itself was to remain 

 with the old translation of "The Great Bible." Tyn- 

 dale's age at the time of his martyrdom is not certain ; 

 but it is conjectured that he was about forty-nine. He 

 was burnt at Vilford (not at Augsburg), near Brussels, in 



1536. See Offer's Memoir of Tyndale, prefixed to the re- 

 print of the first edition of Tke New Testament in English, 

 Bagster, 1886.] 



History of the Old and New Testament. — Can 

 any correspondent inform me if a book entitled 

 Royaiimont on the Old and New Testament is 

 either rare or valuable ? The title-page is as 

 follows : 



"The History of the Old and New Testament, ex- 

 tracted out of Sacred Scripture and Writings of the 

 Fathers, to which are added the Lives, Travels, and 

 Sufferings of the Apostles ; with a large and exact His- 

 torical Chronology of all the Affairs and Actions related in 

 the Bible. The whole Illustrated with Two Hundred and 

 Thirty-four Sculptures and Three Maps, Delineated and 

 Engraved by good Artists. Translated from the Sieur de 

 Royaumont, by several Hands; Supervised and Eecom- 

 mended by Dr. Horneck, and other orthodox Divines. 

 The second Edition, Corrected. London : Printed for S. 

 & J. Sprint, C. Browne, J. Nicholson, J. Pero, and Ben- 

 jamin Tooke, 1G99." 



The sculptures, which are very quaint and 

 amusing, are with very few exceptions dedicated 

 to some particular person ; and it appears from a 

 list in the book, that the work was got up by sub- 

 scription, the sculptures being dedicated to the 

 various subscribers. Henki. 



[Le Sieur de Royaumont is apseudo, i.e. Nicholas Fon- 

 taine, a voluminous French writer, born in 1625, and died 

 in 1709. This work is frequently called " Blome's Bible," 

 the name of the publisher. The original in French passed 

 through several editions. Blome first published The New 

 Testament in 1688, which was followed by The Old Tes- 

 tament in 1690, fol. There must have been two " Second 

 Editions ; " for there is one dated 1701, in which many of 

 the plates are printed on both sides of a leaf, and which 

 diflFers in other respects from the copy described by our 

 correspondent. The third edition was published in 1705. 

 The sculptures are not dedicated to the subscribers, but 

 to the contributors of the drawings. Its value varies 

 from 10s. to 40s. ; as so much depends on the condition 

 and binding,] 



Olivefs Cicero. — Will you kindly inform me if 

 Olivet's Cicero, 9 vols. 4to, " Amstelajdami, apud 

 J. Wetstenium, mpccxlyii," is a good or scarce 



edition. I cannot find it in any bibliographical 

 work or catalogue that I have consulted. E. C. 

 Cork. 



[The following are the dates of the four quarto editions 

 of Olivet's Cicero, as given by Dr. Dibdin {Introduction to 

 the Classics, i. 404., ed. 1827) :— Paris, 1730, 4to, 9 vols. ; 

 Paduas, 1753, 4to. 9 vols. ; Geneva, 1758, 4to. 9 vols. ; Oxon. 

 1783, 4to. 10 vols. A well-bound copy of the Paris edi- 

 tion is worth 21/. ; the Geneva about 71. 7s. We have 

 also consulted the ordinary bibliographical works, but 

 cannot find that any edition of Cicero was printed at 

 Amsterdam in 1747, which leads us to suspect that the 

 title-page has been tampered with for some trick of trade, 

 more especially as Dr. Parr had in his library the Geneva 

 edition of 1758 with the Amsterdam title-page of 1745 !J 



PYTHAGOEAS. 



(2"-^ S. iv. 250.) 



It appears, on sufficient evidence from Plato, 

 Timaeus the Locrian *, Cicero and Plutarch, that, 

 in the opinion of Pythagoras (known only from 

 his followers), the seven then discovered planets, 

 including the moon, and adding, " the firmament 

 of the fixed stars," were separated by intervals 

 analogous to the intervals in musical harmony — 

 not as the seven chords of the lyre ; but I can 

 find no intimation, amongst the numerous musical 

 intervals overleaped by such theory, o£ any gap 

 or defective interval indicative of an unobserved 

 planet, as De Stael, without belief probably, says 

 is affirmed ; although it is certain that mathema- 

 tical calculation suggested to Bode one vacuum, 

 betwixt Mars and Jupiter, subsequently filled up 

 by a congeries of small planets, or one planet 

 split into many, now forty-seven, as Vesta, Juno, 

 Ceres, Pallas, &c. ; as also to Kant, celestial bodies 

 beyond Saturn, of which one was discovered by. 

 Herschel twenty-six years afterwards, named 

 Uranus (Allg. Nuturgesch., 1755). 



The following are the intervals of the planets 

 compared with the intervals in music from 

 Timteus the Locrian, and with Bode's empirical 

 values, the earth's distance from the sun being 

 taken as 10 : — 



True Value. 



Mercury - 3-87 



Venus - 7-23 



Earth - 10-00 



Mars - 15-24 



Vesta - 23-73 



Juno - 26 



Ceres - 27 



Pallas - 2 



Jupiter - 62-03 



Saturn - 95-39 



Uranus - 191-83 



Musical In- 

 tervals of 

 Pythagoras. 



Mi E 3-84 

 Fa F 7-29 

 DoG 9-72 

 Mi E 15-36 



3-73-) 

 6-67 f 



7-67 r " 



7-67J 



Sol G 51-84 

 Im A 92-16 



Empirical Values 

 of Bode. 



7 = 4 + (3x0) 

 10 = 4+ (3 x2) 

 16 = 4 + (3 x22) 



28 = 4 + (8 X 23) 



52 = 4+(3x24) 

 100 = 4 + (3 X 25) 

 196 = 4+ (3 X 26) 



* Whether Timaeus the Locrian did write the treatise 

 on'the soul of the world, or some other Pythagorean, is 

 not material to the present inquiry. 



