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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 245. 



©uertejS. 



MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPTS. 



I have had a manuscript book lent to me con- 

 taining the following works, and I shall be very- 

 glad to be informed by any of your correspondents 

 which, if any, are in print, and where they are to 

 be found : — 



1. "Brevis Relatio eorum quae spectant ad 

 declarationem Sinarum Imperatorls Kam Hi circa 

 coeli Cumfucii et Avorum cultum, datam anno 

 1700. Accedunt primatum doctissimorumque 

 virorum et antiquissimae tradltionis Testimonia. 

 Opera P. P. Societ. Jesu Pebini, pro Evangelii 

 propagatione laborantium." 



At the foot of this title-page follows some 

 writing, which I cannot read, and which I do not 

 think you would be able to print. 



I have endeavoured to give a fac-simile of the 

 first three parts of it ; the end is evidently " by 

 Mr. Hodges." 



2. " De Imputatione Actualis Adse Peccati." 

 Reference is made in the course of this article, 



which I have not yet read, to Pighius, Bellarmini, 

 Daniel Camerius, Chemnitz, Calvin, and a host of 

 authors of that celebrity. 



The first part shows that not all the Protestant 

 churches have taught that the actual sin of Adam 

 is imputed to us, both from their own public con- 

 fessions and from the treatises of some of the most 

 famous writers among them. 



The second part shows that the ancient Fathers, 

 and especially Augustine, by no means seem to 

 have recognised that hypothesis concerning the 

 imputation of Adam's sin. 



The third part shows that that hypothesis con- 

 cerning imputation neither is to be found in 

 Scripture, nor is of any weight as regards piety, 

 and that therefore it ought by no means to be 

 accounted and set down among the common public 

 articles of faith. 



Such is the translation of the heading of each 

 part. The whole is in Latin. 



3. The general assembly of the Chapter of the 

 Catholick Church, held in May, a.d. 1667. 



This just states the occasion of the assembly; 

 then follows " The Roll of Chaptermen and officers, 

 as it stood at the beginning of this assembly." 



Then follow the records of the several sessions 

 of May 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 11th, and after that 

 rules for Dean's, Treasurer's, Secretary's, Vicar- 

 General's, and Archdeacon's office. 



It appears by the signatures to be an original 

 document. 



4. The fourth is a catalogue of the library of 

 Isaac Vossius : " Catalogus codicum manuscrip- 

 torum integrioris notae et exactioris cura8 in Bi- 

 bliotheca viri clarissimi D. Isaaci Vossii." 



5. The fifth is entitled, "Memoire pour trois 

 manuscrits arabes nouvellement apportes d'orient." 



According to this Memoir the MSS. in question 

 treat of the religion of the Druses, and of their 

 laws, statutes, and ordinances, "dont on n'avait 

 point entendu parler jusqu'a present." 



The discovery of these MSS. is due to Sieur 

 Nosvallah Gilde, "natif de la ville de Damas,. 

 medecin de profession." 



6. A MS. without title-page, on the back of 

 which is written, "MS. notes cont. the grounds 

 of grammar." It contains a Latin grammar, or 

 rather accidence, a good deal of which is rude 

 rhyme. 



7. A MS. inscribed on the back " S. Chrys. 

 Anecd. in Bibl. Bodl. Ox." with the former owner's 

 name on the top of the first page of the dedica- 

 tion, " Rev. D" ac Dns Dns Arthuro Charlett,'* 

 not in the same hand as that in which the rest of 

 the MS. is written. This also seems to be an 

 original poem. It is a new year's gift from Hum- 

 fredus Wanley to a superior officer in his own 

 college, and bears date Kal. Jan. 1698-9. So 

 says the dedication. 



The MS. is entitled— 



" riiVa^ avv de^ tlav \6ywv kolI iiri(TTo\wv cweKiSrccj^ 

 rod fV ayiots irccTphs riixu>v 'loodwov hpxie''^uyK6nov Koou- 

 aravrlvov irSx^us tov Xpv(ro(TT6iJ.ov, ruv fJ-expt rod vvv 

 iv rfj rod BoSKeiov fii€\iod-fiKr) 'O^Sypari nepiex'>fJ''f>'wv." 



Then follows the Catalogue, very neatly written, 

 giving the title and the opening words of the 

 several treatises, &c., which are very numerous, 

 and the shelf on which each is kept. 



8. A letter from Rome, dated at the end of 

 May 7, 1687, containing an account of the per- 

 secution of Count Molinos by the Jesuits. It has 

 no name, but is entitled " Copie of a letter from 

 H." It appears to be a Catholic revealing to a 

 friend in England the history of the spread of 

 Quietism, and the efforts made by the Roman 

 hierachy to keep it in check. 



9. " A Relation showing how Mr. Lewis Ramee 

 was detained in y* prisons of y* Inquisition at 

 Mexico and in Spain, and concerning his happy 

 deliverance, sent by himself to Madam de ." 



This MS., which is very interesting indeed, and 

 full of good spirit, the work of an able man, has 

 an appendix of letters between him and his friends 

 and persons of authority, treating about his re- 

 lease. E. C. S. 



Minav iSixttxiei, 



Boswell and Malone's Notes on Milton. — Have 

 the Boswell MS. Notes on Milton's Poems, edited 

 by Warton, and Malone's MS. Notes on Milton's 

 Letters of State between 1649 and 1659, been pub- 

 lished? Gablichithe. 



Water-cure in 1764. — The following passage 

 from Rousseau's Confessions, which occurs near 



