Aug. 3. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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have seen that it was sent to Calvin, It was 

 never returned, but produced in evidence, and 

 burnt with him at the stake. Nevertheless, he 

 either possessed another copy or took the pains of 

 writing it afresh, and thus the work was secretly 

 printed at Vienna, at the press of Balshazar Ar- 

 noullet in 1553. Of this edition, those at Frank- 

 fort were burnt at the instance of Calvin ; at Ge- 

 neva, Robert Stephens sacrificed all the copies 

 which had come into his hands ; so that of an 

 edition of one thousand, it is said only six copies 

 were preserved. These facts I owe to the excel- 

 lent Life of Calvin by JMr. T. H. Dyer, recently 

 published by Mr. Murray. Now does the follow- 

 ing MS. bear relation to that described as recopied 

 by Servetus, from which Arnoullet printed? or 

 is it the first rough sketch ? Can any of your 

 readers say into what collection it passed ? 



The extract is from the Catalogue of the Li- 

 brary of Cisternay Dufay, by Gabriel Martin, 

 Paris, 8vo. 1725, being lot 764., p. 98., and was 

 sohl for 176 livres. 



" Librorum Served de Trlnitate Codex MS. auto- 

 graphus. In fronte libri apparet nota qu£e sequitur, 

 nianu ipsius defuncti D. du Fay exarata. 



'• Forsan ipsius auctoiis autograplius Codex hie 

 MS. qui fuit percelebris Bibliopolas Baslliensis Ccclli 

 Horatii Curionis. Videtur prima coiiceptio (vulgo 

 I'Esquisse, en termes de Peinture) Libri valde fami- 

 gerati Mich. Ssrveti, a Joanne Calvino cum ipso 

 Serveto combusti, cui Titulus, Christianismi Resti- 

 tutio, hoc est totius Ecclesice ApostoVccc ad sua limina 

 Vocatio, &c. &c., typis mandati anno 1554, Viennfe 

 Allobrogum, 8vo. pagg. VS'l," concluding with an anec- 

 dote of the rarity of tlie volume. 



There may be some to whom these " Notes" 

 may be of use, others to whom a reply to the 

 " Queries " may have interest, and so I send them 

 to you. Such MSS. are of great historical import- 

 ance. S. H. 



Athenaeum, July 26. 



Hesmel. — " Let their hesmel be high istiled, al 

 without broach." 



Irspille. — "Wear no iron, nor haircloth, nor 



irspilles felles." J. Mn. 



ETTMOLOGICAI, QUERIES. 



Any remarks on the meaning and derivation of 

 the following words, will be thankfully received. 



Ifi/ltelot. — A magpie ? 



Bereburde. — " In the fever or the Berehnrde." 



Writsmn, or Wursiim. — "My wounds that were 

 healed gather new wrn.suiii, and begin to corru])t." 



Dcule. — Placed always between two sentences 

 without any apparent connection with either of 

 them. Is it an abbreviation of " Dieu le salt? " 



Sabraz. — "He drinks bitter sahruz to recover 

 his health." 



Hatciii-stc. — " Inclosed helenest in a stone coffin 

 or tomb." 



Sc/iuuche. — " Schunche away." 



l-menbrad. — " A girdle i-meiibred." 



JJlodbeiuli's ol' silk. 



Countess of Desmond. — I should be much 

 obliged if any of your readers would inform me of 

 the manner of the death of Catherine Fitzgerald, 

 Countess of Desmond, conmionly called the " old 

 Countess of Desmond," who died in 1626, aged 

 above 140 years, — some say, 162 years, i think 

 I remember reading, some years since, that she 

 died from a fall from a cherry-tree, at the age of 

 144 years. If so, where can the account be Ibund? 



K. 



Cheetham Hill, 



Noli me tangere. — Can any of your readers refer 

 me to pictures upon the subject of Noli me tangere. 

 I want to know what artists have treated the sub- 

 ject, and where their pictures exist. B. 11. 



Line in Miltous " Pensei-oso." — In those some- 

 what hacknied lines, — 



" And may my due feet never fail," &c., 



I am somewhat puzzled to understand the ex- 

 pression, — 



" With antique pillars massy proof." 



Now what is " proof," — a substantive or adjec- 

 tive ? If the latter, no edition is rightly stopped ; 

 for, of course, there should be a comma after 

 " massy ;" and then I somewhat doubt the pro- 

 priety of " proof" for " proved," unless joined 

 with another word, as "star-proof," "rain-proof." 



It "proof" is a substantive, "massy proof" is 

 in apposition to "antique pillars," and is very 

 meaningless. Can any of your readers suggest an 

 explanation ? li. A. B, 



" Mooneys Goose." — As a pendant to " Ludlam's 

 dog," I beg to insert the proverb of "Full of fun 

 and fooster, like Mooney's goose," with the hope 

 that your acute and ingenious correspondent 

 D. V. S. may be able to throw some light upon 

 " Mooney." Let me add that D. V. S. has perhaps 

 somewhat misconceived my brief counnent on 

 Ludlam, which my regard for conciseness has lelt 

 some deal obscure ; and it does not ai)pear worth 

 while to go over the ground again. 1 repeatedly 

 heard " Dick's hat-band " (juoted by Lancashire 

 friends exactly as given by Southey. Does not 

 the variation " cobbler's dog" tend to prove the 

 alliterative principle for which I had been con- 

 temling? J. M. B. 



Translation of the Philobiblon. — Where can I 

 procure a translation of Robert de Bury's Philo- 

 biblon:'' L- S. 



