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LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



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No. 56.'] 



Saturday, November 23. 1850. 



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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Notes :■ — 



The Oldenburg Horn . . - - - 



Greek Particles illustrated by the Eastern Languages 

 Sainuul Rimlands, and his Claim to the Authorship of 



•' The Choise of Change," liy Dr. E. F. Uinibault 

 Etvmulogv of " Apricot," " Peach," and '• Nectarine" 

 Minor Notes: —Qiiaucer's Monument Robert Herrick 

 — Epitaph of a Wine Merchant— Father Blackhal — 

 The Nonjurors — Booksellers' Catalogues — Bailie 

 NicoJ Jarvie —Camels in Gaul . . - - 



Qbbbies : — 



Bibliographical Queries - . - - - 



Drvden's " Essay upon Satire" - - - . 



Minor Queries :— iEnius Silvius (Pope Pius II.) — 

 " Hlease the Pigs"— To save tme's Bacon _ Arabic 

 Numerals — Canlinal — " Bv the bye " — Poisons — 

 Cabalistic Author — Brandon the Juggler — .lacnbus 

 PrajfectusSicnIus— The Word "after" in thcKuiiric— 

 Hard bv— Thomas Hogers of Horminger— Armorial 

 Bearings — Lady Compton's Letter to her Husband — 

 ?rtTnaonnci's WnrliR fliiristonher Barker's Device 



417 



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420 



420 



421 

 422 



Komagnasi's Works _ Ciiristopher Barker's Device 423 



Replies: - 



Licensing of Books, by C. H. Cooper . . - 



Remains of James II., bv Dr. J. II. Wrtford 

 Judge Cralock, bv H. I*. Kllaconibe ... 

 Replies to Minor Queries :— Replies bv George Stephens: 

 On a Passage in the '• Tempest ;" Legend of a Saint ; 

 Cupid and Psyche; Kongs Sknggsia— Disputed Pas- 

 sage in the '• Tempe>t" — Viscount Castlecomer — 

 Steele's Burial-place— Cure for Warts— Etymology of 

 "Parse" ------- 



425 

 427 

 427 



429 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books. Sales, Catalogues, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 

 Notice-^ to Correspondents 

 Ailvertisements 



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- 431 



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THE OLDENBURG HORN. 



'flic lii;rhly interesting collection of pictures at 

 Combe Al)l)uy, ttie seat of the Earl of Craven, in 

 Warwick.sliire, was, for the most part, bcfitieathed 

 by Eliziit)etli, Queen of Holicmia, the (laughter of 

 James I., to hi-r faithful attcnthviit, Willinm, Earl 

 of Crav(!n. TIk! eolh^ttion has rcmaiiieil, entire 

 anil utwIi^turlKMl, up to iIk; present time. Near 

 the upper end of tiie long gallery is a picture 



which iloubtless formed a part of the bequest of the 

 Queen of Boliemia, and of which the following is a, 

 description : — 



Three (juarters length : a female figure, stand- 

 ing, with long curling light hair, and a wreath of 

 flowers round the head. She wears a white satin- 

 gown, with a yellow edge ; gold chain on the- 

 stomacher, and jjearl buttons down the front. She 

 has a pearl necklace and earrings, with a high 

 plaited chemisette up to the necklace ; and four 

 rows of pearls, with a yellow bow, round the sleeve. 

 She holds in her hands a large highly ornamented 

 gold horn. The back- ground consists of moun- 

 tiiins. Underneath the picture is this inscription : 



" Anno post natum Christum 939, Ottoni coiniti 

 Oldenbtivgico in venatione veliemeiiter sitibundo vir^o 

 elegantissinia ex monte O.sen prodiens cornii argenteum 

 deaiiratum plenum liquore ut biberet obtulit. In- 

 specto is liquore adliorruit, ac eundum bibere recusavit. 

 Quo facto, subito Comes a vngine discedens liquorem 

 retro super equum quern mox depilavit efFudit, cor- 

 nuque liic depictum sccum Oldenburgum in perpetuam 

 illius memoriam reportavit. Lucretio de Sainct Simon, 

 puixit." 



The painting is apparently of the first part of the 

 seventeenth century. 1'he ordinary books of re- 

 ference do not contain the painter's name. 



The same legend as that contained in this in- 

 soriptiou, thougli with fuller details, is given by 

 tlie bi-others Cirnnm, in their collection of Dentsche 

 8(1^(671,^0.541. vol. ii. p. 317., from two Oldenburg 

 chronicles. According to tliis version Otto was 

 Count of Oldenburg in the year 990 or 967. [The 

 chronicles appear to differ as to his date : the 

 inscription of the Combe Abbey picture furnishes 

 a third date.] Being a good hunter, and fond of 

 hunting, he went, on the '20th of July, in this ve;ir, 

 attended by his nobles and servants, to hunt in the 

 forest of liernefeuer. Here he found a deer, and 

 chased it alone from this wood to Mount Osen : 

 but in the pursuit he left his com])anions and even 

 his dogs behind ; and lie stood alone, on his white 

 hoi'se, in the middle of the mountain. Bein<; now 

 exhausted by the great heat, he exclaimed : 

 " AVould to God that some one had a draught of 

 coldwatm'!" As soon as the count had uttered 

 these words, the mountain opened, and from the 



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