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[No. 8. 
10. Alphabetum Grecum. 11. Officio pro Choro 
cum notis musicis, pro festo §. Pancratii; sequitur 
ipsiis martiriis passio. 12. Vita S. Columbani 
[this is anonymous, but is attributed to his disciple 
Jonas, and contains much valuable historical 
matter]. Lastly, 13. Vita S. Wolfgangi, by the 
hand of our interesting scribe Orxon, written at 
the instance of the Benedictine Ceenobites of his 
monastery of §. Emmeram, at Ratisbon, where 
the saint was buried. ‘This, as in the case of the 
Life of S. Boniface, is a rifaccimento ; it was made 
from two older lives of 8. Wolfgang, as Otloh 
himself tells us, one of them by a certain monk 
named Arnolfus, the other haying been brought 
out of France. He is here, therefore, more an 
author than a scribe; but he declares modestly / 
that it was a task he would willingly avoid for the 
future. The passage of his Preface is worth 
transcribing: “ Fratrum quorundam nostrorum 
hortatu sedulo infimus ego, O ccenobitarum §. 
Emmerammi compulsus sum 8. Wolfgangi vitam 
in libellulis duobus dissimili interdum, et impolita 
materie descriptam in unum colligere, et aliquan- 
tulum sublimiori modo corrigere. .... Multa 
etiam que in libro neutro inveniebantur, fidelium 
quorundam attestatione comperté addere studui, 
sieque quedam addendo, queedam vero fastidiose 
vel inepte dicta excerpendo, pluraque etiam cor- 
rigendo, sed et capitularia praponendo. Vobis 
O fratres mei exactoresque hujus rei prout inge- 
nioli mei parvitas permisit obedivi. Jam rogo 
cessate plus tale quid exigere a me.” At the end 
of the Life he has written : — 
« Presul Wolfeange cunctis semper venerande 
Hee tua qui seripsi jam memor esto mihi 
Presbiter et Monachus Otloh quidam vocitatus 
Sancte tibi librum Bonifacii tradidit istum.” 
We have here sufficient evidence that Otloh was 
a worthy predecessor of the distinguished Bene- 
dictines to whom the world of letters has been so 
deeply indebted in more recent times. 
Dr. Maitland’s mention of the calligraphic la- 
bours of the nun Diemudis, Otloh’s contemporary, 
is not a solitary instance: in all ages, the world 
has been indebted to the pious zeal of these 
recluse females for the multiplication of books of 
devotion and devout instruction. An instance, of so 
late a date as the eve of the invention of printing, 
now lies before me, in a thick volume, most beauti- 
fully written by fair hands that must have been 
long practised in the art. As the colophon at the 
end preserves the names of the ladies, and records 
that the parchment was charitably furnished by 
their spiritual father, I think it worth tran- 
scribing :— 
“ Expliciunt, Deo Jaus omnipotente, quinque libri 
de Vira & Convensatione Sancrorvm Parry Scripti 
per manibus Sororum Ave Trict et Guerze Ysenoup1 
in festivus diebus suis consororibus dilectis in memo- 
riam earum. Finiti ano dii m° cccc® xirx? in festo 
decollationis Sci Johannis baptiste ante suinam missam. 
Et habebant ad hoe pergamenum sibi ex caritate pro- 
visum de venerabili presbitero Dno Nicorao Wyr tune 
temporis earundem patre spirituali & sibi ipsiis spiritu- 
aliter ac in Do sat reverenter dilectio. Ex caritativo 
amore sitis propter Deum memores eorum cum uno 
Ave Mania.” 
I omitted to mention that Massmann, in his 
Kleinen Sprachdenkmale des VIII. bis XII. Jahr- 
hunderts, Leipsig, 1830, p. 50., says: “ ‘The Bene- 
dictine priest Otloh, of Regensburg, left behind 
him a work, De Ammonicione Clericorum et Lai- 
corum, in which is twice given a Latin prayer 
(Cod. Monacens. Emmeram. f. exiii. mbr. see. 
xi.), at fol. 51. d., as Oratio ejus qui et suprascripta 
et sequentia edidit dicta, and at fol. 158. as Oratio 
cuidam peccatoris.” On fol. 161. b. is an old Ger- 
man version, first printed by Pez (Thes.i. 417.), 
corrected by Graff. Diutiska, 111. 211., by Mass- 
mann, at p. 168. Otloh mentions in this prayer 
the destruction of his monastery of St. Emmeram, 
which took place in 1062. 
I have advisedly called him Otloh, and not 
Otlohnus. S. W. Srneer. 
Mickleham, Dee. 10. 1849. 
NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM’S HANDBOOK FOR 
LONDON. 
No. 1. “ Gerrard Street, Soho. At the 
Turk’s Head, in Gerrard Street, Johnson and Sir 
Joshua Reynolds founded, in the year 1764, ‘ The 
Literary Club.” ' 
It would appear from the following extracts in 
my Common-place Book, that the original Turk’s 
Head, at which the Literary Club first held their 
meetings, was in Greek Street, Soho, not in 
Gerrard Street : — 
« The Literary Club was first held at the Turk’s 
Head in Greek Street, which tavern was almost half a 
century since remoyed to Gerrard Street, where it con- 
tinued nearly as long as the house was kept open.” -—— 
EHuropedn May. Jan. 1803. 
«“ The Turk’s Head, in Gerrard Street, Soho, was, 
more than fifty years since, removed from a tavern of 
the same sign the cornerof Greek and Compton Streets. 
This place was a kind of head-quarters for the Loyal 
Association during the rebellion of 1745.”— Moser’s 
Memorandum Book, MS. dated 1799. 
No.2. Storey’s Gate, Birdcage Wath, St. James’s 
Park. —J have seen it stated, but do not recollect 
where, that “Storey’s” was a house.of public 
entertainment. ‘ Webb’s,” mentioned in the fol- 
lowing extracts, was also a place of a similar de- 
scription : — 
« April 25. 1682.— About nine, this night, it began 
to lighten, thunder, and rain. The next morning, 
there was the greatest flood in S&. James’s Park ever 
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