Oct. 19. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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last of the Greek Fathers," (Gibbon, iv. 472.) 

 a voluminous writer on ecclesiastical subjects, but 

 no physician, and therefore not at all likely to be 

 found among the books of Chaucer's Doctour, 



" Whose studie was but litel on the Bible." 

 Chavicer's Damascene is the author of Aphorismo- 

 rum Liber, and of Medicinm Therapenticte, libri vii. 

 Some suppose him to have lived in the ninth, 

 others in the eleventh century, a.i>. ; and this is 

 about all that is known about him. (See Biogra- 

 phie Universelle, s. v.) Ed. S. Jackson. 



Long Friday, meaning of. — C. Knight, in his 

 Pictorial Shakspeare, explains Mrs. Quickly's 



Jihrase in Henry the Fourth — " ' Tis a long 

 oan for a poor lone woman to bear," — by the 

 synonym ^rea^ ; asserting that long is still used in 

 the sense of great, in the north of England ; and 

 quoting the Scotch proverb, " Between you and 

 the long day be it," where we talk of the great 

 day of judgment. May not this be the meaning 

 of the name Long Friday, which was almost in- 

 variably used by our Saxon forefathers for what 

 we now call Good Friday ? The commentators 

 on the Prayer Book, who all confess themselves 

 ignorant of the real meaning of the term, absurdly 

 suggest that it was so called from the great length 

 of the services on that day ; or else, from the 

 length of the fast which preceded. Surely, The 

 Great Friday, the Friday on which the great work 

 of our redemption was completed, makes better 

 sense ? T. E. L. L. 



Hip, hip. Hurrah ! — Originally a war cry, 

 adopted by the stormers of a German town, 

 wherein a great many Jews had taken their 

 refuge. The place being sacked, they were all 

 put to the sword, under the shouts of, Hierosolyma 

 est perdiia ! From the first letter of those words 

 (//. e. p.) an exclamation was contrived. We 

 little think, when the red wine sparkles in the cup, 

 and soul-stirring toaats are applauded by our 

 Hip, hip, hurrah ! that we record the fall of Jeru- 

 salem, and the cruelty of Christians against the 

 chosen people of God. Janus Dousa. 



Under the Rose (Vol. i., p. 214.). — Near Zand- 

 poort, a village in the vicinity of Haarlem, Prince 

 vVilliani of Orange, the third of his name, h.ad a 

 favourite hunting-seat, called after him the Prin- 

 cenbosch, now more generally known under the 

 designation of the Kruidberg. la the neighbour- 

 hood of these grounds there was a little summer- 

 house, making part, if I recollect rightly, of an 

 Amsterdam burgomaster's country place, who 

 resided there at the times I speak of. In this pa- 

 vilion, it is said, and beneath a stucco roue, being 

 one of the ornaments of the ceiling, William III. 

 communicated the scheme of his inteiuied invasion 

 in England to the two burgomasters of Amsterdam 

 there present. You know the result. 



Can the expression of " being under the rose " 

 date from this occasion, or was it merely owing to 

 coincidence that such an ornament protected, as it 

 were, the mysterious conversation to which Eng- 

 land owes her liberty, and Protestant Christendom 

 the maintenance of its rights ? Jancs Dousa. 



Huis te Manpadt. 



Albanian Literature. — Bogdano, Pieiro, Archi- 

 vescovo di Scopia, F Tnfallibile Verita della Cat- 

 tolica Fede, in Venetia, per G. Albrizzi, MDXcr, is 

 I think much older than any Albanian book men- 

 tioned by Hobhouse. The same additional charac- 

 ters are used which occur in the later publications 

 of the Propaganda, in two parts, pp, 182. 162. 



F. Q. 



eaucrt'c^. 



BIBMOGRArHICAX QUERIES. 



1. Has anything recently transpired which could 

 lead bibliographers to form an absolute decision 

 with regard to the "unknown" printer who used 

 the singular letter K which is said to have ori- 

 ginated with Finiguerra in 1452 ? That Mentelin 

 was the individual seems scarcely credible; and 

 there is a manifest difference between his type and 

 that of the anonymous printer of the editio.princeps 

 of Rabanus Maurus, De Universo, the copy of 

 which work (illuminated, ruled, and rubricated) 

 now before me was once in Heber's possession ; 

 and it exhibits the peculiar letter R, which re- 

 sembles an ill-formed A, destitute of the cross 

 stroke, and supporting a round O on its reclined 

 back. (Panzer, i. 78. ; Santander, i. 240.) 



2. Is it not quite certain that the acts and 

 decrees of the synod of Wiirtzburg, held in the 

 year 1452, were printed in that city previously to 

 the publication of the Breviarium Hej-hipolense in 

 1479? The letter Q which is used in the volume 

 of these acts is remarkable for being of a double 

 semilunar shape ; and the type, which is very 

 Gothic, is evidently the same as. that employed in 

 an edition of other synodal deoi-ees in Germany 

 about the year 1470. 



3. When and where was the Liber de Laudibus 

 gloriosissime Dei genitricis Marie semper Virginis, 

 by Albertus Magnus, first printed? I do not 

 mean the supposititious work, which is often con- 

 founded with the other one; but that which is also 

 styled Super Evangelium Missus est Qucestiones. 

 And why are these Questions invariably said to be 

 230 in number, when there are 275 chapters in 

 the book? Beughcm asserts that the earliest 

 edition is that of JMilan in 1489 {Vid. Quetif et 

 Echard, i. 17G.), but what I believe to be a volume 

 of older date is "sine uUa notii;" and a book- 

 seller's observation respecting it is, that it is "very 

 rare, and unknown to De Bure, Panzer, Brunet, 

 and Dibdin." 



