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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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authors of the numerous pieces in the second 

 part of " Political JMiscelLiiiies." F. B. E. 



The Coiujuest. — Permit me to point out the 

 erroneous historical idea which obtains in the use 

 of tiiis phrase. Acquisition out of the common 

 course of inheritance is by our lej;ists called per- 

 qui.sitio, by tlie feudists amqnisitio, and the first 

 purchaser (lie who brouQ;ht the estate into the 

 current fiimily) the conquercur. The charters 

 and chronicles of the age thus ri<rhtly style William 

 the Norman conqiiisito?-, and his accession cun- 

 quastus ; but now, from disuse of the foedal 

 sense, with the notion of the forcible method of 

 ac(piisition, we annex the idea of victory to con- 

 quisition, — a title to which AVilliam never pre- 

 tended. W. L. 



Twickenham, 



(Queries. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES. 



( Continued from page 421. ) 



(18.) What could have induced the accurate 

 and learned Saxius (Cat'd. Lib. Medial., edit. 

 p. Dxc.) to give the name Elucidarium to the first 

 part of the Maricde of Bern;irdinus de Bust is? 

 This writer, who has sometimes erroneously been 

 reputed a Dominican, and who is commemorated 

 in the Franciscan Martyrology on the 8th of May 

 (p. 178.), derived his denomination from his family, 

 and not "from a place in the country of Rlilan," 

 as Mr. Tyler has supposed. (TFo7-.sA//j of //(e Virgin, 

 p. 41. Lond. 1846.) Elsewhere Saxius had said 

 {Hist. Typog.-Liter. Medial, col. ccclii.) that the 

 Maricde was printed tor the first time in 1493, and 

 dedicated to Pope Alexander VI. ; and Argelati 

 was led by him to consider the Elucidarium to be 

 a distinct performance ; and he speaks of the 

 Marinle as having been published in 1494. 

 (Bil)liotli. Scriptor. Aled., torn. i. p. ii. 24.5.) Un- 

 questionably the real title assigned by the author 

 to the first part of his Sermoiuirium or Mariale 

 was " Pekpetuum Silentium," and it was in- 

 scribed to Alexander's predecessor, Pope Inno- 

 cent VIII.; and, in conjunction with De Bustis's 

 OlHce of the Immaculate ("onception of the Viririn 

 Mary (sanctioned by a Brief of Pope Sixtus IV., 

 who in 1476 had issued the earliest pontifical de- 

 cree in favour of an innovation now predominant 

 in the Church of Kome), was primarily printed 

 " Mli," that is, Medialani, "j)er Uldericum scin- 

 zenzeler, Anno dni M.cccc.lxxxxij " (1492). 

 Wharton, Olearius, Clement, and Maittaire knew 

 nothing of this e'lition ; and it must take prece- 

 dence of that of Strasburg named by Panzer 

 (i. 47.). 



(19.) Can any particdiirs be easily ascertained 

 relative to reprints of the acts of the canonisation 



of the Seraphic Doctor in their original small 

 quarto shape ? 



(20.) To whom should we attribute the rare 

 tract entitled Luiiacrum conscientie omnium sacer- 

 d')tum,yi\\K\\ consists of fitty-eight leaves, and was 

 printed in Gothic letter at Cologne, "Anno post 

 Juiiileum quarto?" 



(21.) Where can information be met with as to the 

 autiiorship of the Dialogua super Libertate Eccle- 

 siadica, between Hugo, Cato, and Oliver ? Fischer 

 {Esxai sur Gutenberg, 79.) traces back the first 

 edition to the year 1463; but I know the treatise 

 only in the form in which it was republished at 

 Oj)penheim in 1516. 



(22.) Who was the compiler or curator of the 

 Viola Sanctorum f and can the slightest attempt 

 be made at verifying the signatures and numbers 

 inserted in the margin, and apparently relating to 

 the MSS. from which the work was taken ? One 

 of two copies before me was printed at Nurem- 

 berg in 1486, but the other I believe to belong to 

 the earliest impression. It is of small folio size, 

 in very Gothic type, perhaps of the year 1472, 

 witliout date, place, or name of printer, and is 

 destitute of cyphers, catchv^ords, and signatures. 

 There are ninety-two leaves Ln the volume, and 

 in each page generally thirty-three (sometimes 

 thirty-four, rarely thirty-five) lines. (See Bruuet, 

 iii. 547. ; Kloss, 280. ; Panzer, i. 193.) 



(23.) By what means can intelligence be pro- 

 cured respecting " Doctor Ulricus," the author of 

 F7-aternitas Clerif A satisfactory reply to this 

 inquiry might probably be found in the Bibl. 

 Spencerianu ; but I have not now an opportunity 

 of determining this point. 



(24.) A question has been raised by Dr. Mait- 

 land, from wh(]se adniiiable ca-iticism nothing con- 

 nected with literature is likely to escape, as to the 

 meaning of the letters " P. V." placed over a 

 sudarium held by St. Peter and St. Paul. (Early 

 printed Books in the Lambeth Library, pp. 115. 

 368.) Any person who has hajJiieneii to obtain 

 the Vitas Patrum, decorated with the curious little 

 woodcuts of which Dr. Maitland has carefully re- 

 presented two, will cheerfully agree witii him in 

 maintaining the excellence of the acquisition. In 

 a copy of this work bearing date 1520, eleven 

 years later than the Lambeth volume {List, p. 85.), 

 the reverse of the leaf which contains the colophon 

 exhibits the same sudarium, in conijiany with the 

 words " Salve sancta Facies." This circum- 

 stance inclines me to venture to ask whether my 

 much-valued friend will concur with me in the 

 conjecture that Pictnra Veronica: may be the in- 

 terpretation of " P. V. ? " Tliough the pseudo- 

 Arclibishop of AVestminster declared, in the sim- 

 plicity of his heart {Letteis to John Poynder, Esq., 

 p. 6.), that he had "never met "with the sequence 

 " qua? dicitiu- in Missa Votiva de Vultu Suncto," 

 doubtless some of his newly-arrested subjects are 



