Sept. 4. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Riitboto, Ratboten, Ratpoto, Ruotboto, Ruadpoto, 

 Hruodpoten, Radbod, Ratbold, Ratpott, Raboto, 

 Rabodo, Hradboten, Hruadboten. 

 RiBBERT, Ribbodo, Ribprecht, Rihbert, Rihberd, Ri- 

 pert, Rihpert, Rihbraht, Rihbrath, Rihhbraht, 

 Rihpraht, Richpert, Rihperaht, Rihperat,Rihpreht, 

 Rihberat, Richpert, Ricpreht, Richpretb, Heri- 

 perht, Heripreht, Heriperaht, Heripato. 



After an introduction to all these persons, the 

 reader would feel more at home at the places 

 which I have mentioned, and the almost name- 

 sake localities of Raprehteshusun, Rappertesdorff, 

 Rappotertorf, Raprehtisdorff", Raperzhouen, Ru- 

 prechtshouen, Rapotenraut, Rappertsvvyler, &c. 



S. R. Maitland. 



Gloucester. 



Minor ^aUS. 



Passage in Alfred's ^^Boethius." — Being fa- 

 voured with a reading of Alfred's version of Boe- 

 thius about fourteen years ago, I was surpi'ised 

 at meeting with the following passage, printed 

 without note, comment, or conjecture, by Chr. 

 Rawlinson, p. 87. (b, xxxiv. c. viii. of Alfred's 

 ai'rangement) : 



" Gif 'Sonne liwek mon masge gesion "Sa birhtu }>£es 

 heofenlican leohtes mid hluttrum eagum bis modes, 

 'Sonne wile he c\ve\>a.n ]>xi sio bcorhtnes l>aere sunnan 

 sciman sie ^£es cer nes to metanne wij) J>a ecan birhtu 

 Godes." 



That " t>£es z&v nes" are the disjectce membra 

 vocis, " |>eosternes," is so self-evident as to need 

 no proof, argument, or example. 

 Literal translation, 



" If, then, any man may (i. e. is able to) see the 

 brightness of the heavenly light with [the] clear eyes 

 of his mind, then will he say that the brightness of the 

 sunshine is darkness, to compare with the eternal 

 brightness [or glori/l of God." 



E. Thomson. 



Mistletoe on the Spruce and Silver Fir. — 

 Having observed in some old numbers of the 

 "N. &Q." lists of trees upon which the mistletoe is 

 known to grow, I may mention that although its 

 occurrence on needle-leaved trees is, I believe, 

 very rare, I have observed it on the spruce and 

 silver fir, both on the Guadarrama mountains in 

 Spain, and in many parts of the Pyrenees. It is 

 said also to grow on the Finns Cembra in Swit- 

 zerland. PwccA. 



Cambridge Frize Foem, 1820. — False Quantity. 

 — I am a Boeotian; accordingly I ought to be 

 well acquainted with Helicon. I have seen it in 

 the distance, and taken a walk on the highway 

 leading to it, but never got to its base. I however 

 once availed myself of a Graclus ad Parnassum, and 

 learnt to " scan " its sunny heights. Having re- 



ceived a kind invitation from the Cambridge Prize 

 Poem of 1820 to take a turn with him in the old 

 familiar road, I gladly consented. My companion 

 marched on for the space of forty-nine lines, when 

 he suddenly stood still. One of his feet appeared 

 to me to be decidedly lame. Can any of the classic 

 poets afibrd him a crutch whereon to lean? If 

 there should be one forthcoming, I must be pre- 

 pared to receive it on my own thick pate, instead 

 of to offer it to him for his lame foot. Neverthe- 

 less, until I start up beneath such a blow, I do not 

 expect to find myself " expergSfactus." 



BCEOTICDS • 



Edgmond, Salop. 



St. George's Day. — The day of England's patron 

 saint is marked for its influence on her poets* 

 destinies. It is the anniversary of Shakspeare'g 

 death and apotheosis too : and on the same day 

 AVordsworth put off these " lendings." It is per- 

 haps less generally known that " by a writ, dated 

 at Windsor, on the 23rd of April, 1374, a pitcher 

 of wine daily Avas granted to Chaucer for life, to 

 be received in the port of London, from the hands 

 of the king's butler." — See Sir H. Nicolas' life of 

 the poet, pp. 28, 29 : Pickering, 1846. 



Tradition tells us of a day when less fitting 

 acknowledgment was made to Milton's merits, by 

 a prematurely xmgrateful college. Was this 

 St. George's Day also ? Who knows ? and what 

 a triumph of induction if it were ! J. D. W. 



Cambridge. 



Scented Glue for Bookbinding. — No doubt 

 some of your readers have experienced the annoy- 

 ance of discovering that their newly received copy 

 of some scarce, but not erudite, book, obtained 

 with difficulty, had had its popularity at one time 

 acknowledged by readers ranking amongst the 

 great unleashed, from whose persons or pipes it 

 had derived an odour not pungent, indeed, but 

 very likely to be permanent. My Query is, Could 

 not some odoriferous mixture, compounded with 

 the glue of the binder, be employed to neutralise 

 or conquer the faint but offensive taint complained 

 of? 



Many books in old French bindings which I 

 have handled, have a scent about them so delicious, 

 as positively to increase the pleasure of reading 

 them ; I imagine that this scent must lie in the 

 glue. Any suggestion, or, better still, tried re- 

 cipe for such a mixture, or to answer its purpose, 

 will be gratefully received by Pastille. 



Dictionary of Anonymous Winters. — Diction- 

 naire des Ouvrages Anonymes et Fseudonymes, par 

 Ant. Alex. Barbier, 2nd ed., Paris, 1822-5, 4 vols. 

 8vo. See La France Litter aire, par J. M. Que- 

 rard, Paris, 1827, tome V"', p. 178. 



Can any reader of the " N. & Q." inform me of 

 a similar work on English bibliography ? And if 



