2»i S. V. 130., Junk 26. '58.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 



5id 



The following is from a catalogue : I was unfor- 

 tunately too late to get the book : — 



" 29. Amstelredams Mirakelen aldaeigheschid H. Sa- 

 crament des Ataers (on the desecration of the Host), 

 12mo. Dutch binding, with many curious emblematical 

 plates, brilliant impressions. 2s. Gd. 1G39." 



I suspect a misdescription. I cannot trace any 

 desecration at Amsterdam. There, in 1345, a sick 

 man coughed up a Host, which was unnoticed 

 and thrown into the fireplace ; but found unin- 

 jured in the flames the next morning. In the 

 British Museum, under the head " Amsterdams 

 Mirakel," is a small 12mo. (1568), with an account 

 of this and its consequent miracles. And Caf- 

 meyer (Historie, p. 11.) says that one has been 

 published, with engravings after Rubens. Should 

 this meet the eye of the fortunate purchaser, per- 

 haps he will say whether I am right in supposing 

 the last-mentioned to be the book advertised. 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



The following work on the " Miraculous Host " 

 may also be noted : — 



" The Miraculous Host tortured by the Jew, under the 

 reign of Philip the Fair in 1290, being one of the Legends 

 r, which converted the daughters and niece of Douglas 

 Loveday, Esq , under the reign of Louis XVIIl. in 1821. 



J. Y. 



THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORXr-FIFTH PSALM. 

 (2'"' S. V. 436.) 



The Septuagint has either preserved or supplied 

 passages not found in our Hebrew text. The 

 missing verse, commencing with J, is preserved in 

 the Septuagint-; and one MS. of Kennicott (No. 

 142.) in Trinity College, Dublin, has the ori- 

 ginal Text, vjj^yD "pan T-om mm bn nin'- jdxj, 



with which agree the Vulgate, Syriae, Arabic, and 

 Ethiopic versions.* (Compare the 17th verse of 



this psalm.) The word 733 in the first member 

 of the sentence is omitted in the Vatican MS., 

 but is in Grabe's edition from the Alexandrian 

 (Trao-f, " in all his words."). Many similar omis- 

 sions in the Hebrew text may be supplied from 

 the Septuagint. Genesis iv. 8. reads in our ver- 

 sion, " And Cain talked with Abel his brother," 

 but the Hebrew is, " And Cain said to Abel his 

 brother," leaving out, in the original, what he said. 

 The Septuagint and Syriae have preserved the 

 words " Let us go into the field," which are con- 

 firmed by the Samaritan Pentateuch (mKTl n3^J), 



* This passage of the Psalms must have been in the 

 Hebrew MSS. from which these versions were taken, the 

 oldest of them the Septuagint, about 170 b.c. in the time 

 of Ptolemy Philometer, (a century after the Greek ver- 

 sion of the Pentateuch,) subsequently to which date it has 

 been lost from the Hebrew text. 



but found in no Hebrew MS. of Kennicott or De 

 Rossi. Many MSS. leave a space here as if some- 

 thing were omitted ; but the Massorites have said 

 NpDD X73, "leave no space." Compare the 14th 

 and 53rd Psalms ; also the 108th Psalm with Psalms 

 Ivii. 8 — 12. and Ix. 7—14. The Hebrew text is 

 occasionally imperfect, from the inevitable errors 

 of transcribers, some of which have probably ex- 

 isted from the first apographs. The Jews have 

 evinced great judgment and becoming reverence 

 in leaving the text as they found it, marking by 

 keri and cethib the more obvious errors without 

 altering the text. Davidson (Bib. Crit.) will 

 furnish some useful illustrations of the history of 

 the Hebrew text; but Eichhorn (sec. 81 — 138.) 

 has gone fully into it, showing eighteen distinct 

 sources of error ; and his exemplification of the 

 methods to be followed for a critical investigation 

 of the Hebrew text (sec. 139—404.) should be 

 studied, to obtain correct views on the subject. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



CORPORATION INSIGNIA. 



* (2"'> S. v. 469.) 



Since the Municipal Corporations' Act of 1835 

 many insignia of corporations have been disused ; 

 some even have been sold, and the antiquary has 

 to thank Mr. Brent for his very interesting paper 

 in rescuing others from oblivion. 



It has been supposed by many that a two- 

 handled sword of state was only carried before 

 the mayor of a city, others having maces only ; 

 and the sword carried before the Mayor of Shrews- 

 bury when referred to was accounted for because 

 that was a great border town. 



This supposed distinction as to cities appears to 

 be quite exploded by the examples given by Mr. 

 Brent at Southampton and at Hertford. 



^VhiIe the Admiralty Sessions for offences on 

 the high seas were held before the Judge of the 

 Admiralty, Lord Stowell, assisted by the Judges. 

 Bay ley, Park, Baron Garrow, and other judges, 

 the Marshal of the Admiralty used to sit in the 

 Junior High SherifTs place at the Old Bailey, 

 wearing a uniform similar to that of a captain of 

 the royal navy, having placed on the table before 

 the judges a massive silver oar about two feet 

 long, which he carried before them as they entered 

 and left the court. 



The top of a handsome silver-gilt mace, given 

 by George first Earl of Berkeley, who commanded 

 the royal fleet at the Restoration, to the Corpora- 

 tion of Berkeley, was for many years used as a 

 drinking-cup at the conclusion of the feasts. When 

 the Mayor came to the last toast, the head of 

 the mace was unscrewed from the stem, and the 

 crown unscrewed froni the top. The cup-part of 



