July 13. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



105 



in bringing his verses to that degree of perfection 

 which satisfied his own fastidious taste, that the 

 president was ha|)pily remarried, and the consola- 

 tion not at all re(iuired. 



Bishop Hurd, in a note on the Epistle to Augus- 

 tus., p. 72. , says : 



" Mallierbe was to the French pretty much what 

 Horace had been to Latin poutry. Thesi.- great writers 

 had, each of th^m, rescued the lyric muse of their 

 country out of the rude un;riacious hands of their old 

 poets. And, as their talents of a good ear, elegant 

 jurigmeiit, and correct expression, were the same, they 

 presented her to the public in all the air and grace, 

 and yet severity, of beauty, of which lier form was sus- 

 ceptible." 



S. W. SlNGEE. 



Mickleham, July 2. 1850. 



"dies ir^, dies illa. 



In replj' to the first of Mr. Simpson's Queries 

 (Vol. ii., p. 72.) relative to the magnificent se- 

 quence Dies ira:, I beg to say that the author of 

 it is utteily unknown. The following references 

 may be sufficient: — Card. Bona, Rer. Liturgic, 

 lib. ii. cap. vi. p. 3-36., Romas, 1671 ; or, if possiule, 

 Sala's edition, toni. Hi. p 143., Aug. Turin. 1753; 

 Gavantus, toni. i. pp. 274-5., Lugd. 1664 ; and the 

 Additions by jNleiati, i. 117-18., Aug. Vindel, 

 1740; Zaccaria, Biblioth. Rlttuil. torn. i. p. 34., 

 liomae, 1776 ; Oldoini Addit. ad Ciaconii Vit. 

 Pontijf. et Cardd., torn. ii. col. 222., Rom-.p, 1677. 



Mr. Simpson's second question is, " In what 

 book was it first printed ?" Joannes de Palentia, 

 in his notes upon the Ordinariuiii PP. Prad., as- 

 serts that this celebrated prose was first intro- 

 duced into the Venice editions of the Missals 

 printed for the Dominicans. The oldest Missale 

 Pradicatorum which I possess, or liave an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing, is a copy of the Parisian impres- 

 sion of the year 1519 ; and hei-ein the Dies irce is 

 inserted in tiie Commemoratio Defunctorum ; mens. 

 Novemb. sig. M. 5. 



An inquiry remains as to the date of the general 

 adoption of this se(juence liy the Roman Church. 

 In Quetif and Echard {Scriptt. Ord. Pripd. i. 437.), 

 under the name of Latin us Malabraiiea, we read 

 that it certainly was not in use in the year 1255 ; 

 and there dues not api)car to be the sliglitest evi- 

 I (lence of its admission, even upon private authority, 

 into the office for the dead anterior to the com- 

 mencement of the fifteenth centui-y. 



Your corresfiondent was not mistaken in his 

 belief that he had met with an imperfect tran- 

 script of this prose, for the original consists not of 

 "twenty-seven," but oi' Jiftij-seven lines. I may 

 add that I do not remember to have found I he 

 text more correctly given than in the beautiful 

 folio missal of the church of Augsburg, jiarlly 

 printed on vellum in 1555 (fol. 466. b.). R. G. 



The Dies Irce is truly said by Mr. Sparrow 

 Simpson (Vol. ii., p. 72.) to be an extremely 

 beautiful hymn. Who was its author is very 

 doubtful, but the probabilities are in favour of 

 Thomas de Celano, a Minorite friar, who lived 

 during the second half of the fourteenth century. 

 It consists of nineteen strojihes, each having three 

 lines. Bartholomew of Pisa, a. d. 1401, in his 

 Liber Conformitatum, speaks of it ; but the earliest 

 printed book in which I have ever seen this hymn, 

 is the Missale Romanum, printed at Pavia, a. d. 

 1491, in 8vo., a copy of which I have in my pos- 

 session. D. Rock. 



Buckland, Faringdon. 



DR. SAMUEL OGDEN. 



In reply to your correspondent Twtford 

 (VoLii., p. 73.), the original of the common sur- 

 name Ogden is doubtless Oakden. A place so 

 called is situated in Butterworth, Lancashire, and 

 gave name to a family, — possibly extinct in the 

 sixteenth century. A clergyman, whose name 

 partook both of the original and its corruption, 

 was vicar of Bradford, 1506, viz DiTs Tho. Ohden. 

 The aims and crest borne by the Oakdens were 

 both allusive to tlie name, certainly without any 

 reference to King Charles's hiding-place. 



Dr. Samuel Ogilen, born in 1716 at Manchester, 

 was the son of Thomas Ogden, a man of very 

 humble origin : but he had the merit of giving a 

 liberal education to one whose natural talents well 

 deserved culture; and both his parents, in tlie de- 

 cline of life, owed their support to Ogden's filial 

 piety and affection. Cole is quite mistaken in 

 fixing the father's residence at Mansfield, and in 

 stating that he had been in the army. The monu- 

 inent, spoken of by Cole, is not at ilansficld, but 

 in the cathedral of Manchester : nor is it a memo- 

 rial of Dr. Ogden. It was placed by him in 

 memory of his father. Ogden was buried in his 

 own church, St. Sepulchre's, Cambridge. 



The f()llowing epigram, it is believed, has not 

 been printed. Jt is transcribed from a letter in 

 my possession, addressed by the first Lord Alvan- 

 ley, when at college, to his fbi mer tutor, Mr. Thyer, 

 editor oi Butler's Remains: — 



" When Ogden his prosaic verse 

 In Latin numbers diest. 

 The Roman language prov'd too weak 

 To stand the Critic's test. 

 " To English Hhyme he next essay'd, 

 To show he'd some pretence ; 

 But all ! Rhyme only would not do — 

 They still expected Sense. 

 " Enrag'd, the Doctor said lie'd place 

 In Critics no reliance, 

 So wrapt Ills thoughts in Araliic, 

 And bad them all defiance." 



J. H. Mahkland. 



