Mab. 8. 1851.] 



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Sclielhorn's opinion as to the birthright of these 

 tracts is sufficient to awaken an interest concerning 

 them, for he conceived that they should be classed 

 among the earliest works executed with cut move- 

 able characters. (Dint, ad Card. Quirini lib., p. 25. 

 Cf. SeemiUer, i. 105.) So far as I can judge, an 

 adequate measure of seniority has not been gene- 

 rally assigned to these Zellian specimens of printing, 

 if it be granted " Coloniani Agrippinam post 

 Moguntinenses primiun recepisse artem." (Meer- 

 man, ii. 106.) This writer's representation, in his 

 ninth plate, of the type used in 1457, supplies us 

 with ground for a complete conviction tiiat these 

 undated Gersonian m:inuals are at least as old as 

 the Auguslinus de singidaritate clericorum. But 

 why are they not oLJer ? Is there any document 

 wliich has a stronger conjectural claim ? Van de 

 Velde's Catalogue, tome i. Gand, 1831, contains 

 notices of some of them ; and one volume before 

 me has the first initial letter principally in blue 

 and gold, the rest in red, and all elaborated with 

 a pen. The most unevenly printed, and therefore, 

 I suppose, the primitiul gem, is the Tractatus de 

 mendicitaie spiritaali, in which not only rubilbrm 

 capitals, but whole words, have been inserted by a 

 chirographer. It is, says Van de Velde, (the former 

 possessor,) on tlie fly-leaf, " sans chitTres et reclames, 

 en longues lignes de 27 lignes sur les pages en- 

 tieres." The full stop employed is a sort of 

 twofold, recumbent, circumflex or caret ; and the 

 most eminent watermark in the paper is a Unicorn, 

 bearing a much more suitable antelopian weapon 

 than is that awkwardly horizontal horn prefixed 

 by Dr. Dibdin to the Oryx in profile which he 

 has depicted in plate vi. appertaining to his life of 

 Ca.xton : Typographical Antiquities, vol. i. 



(44.) Wherein do the ordinary Hymni et Se- 

 queiiticB diff-r from those according to the use of 

 yarum ? Whose is the oldest Expositio commonly 

 attached to both ? and respecting it did Badius, 

 in 1502, accomplish much beyond a revision and 

 an ainendraenl of the style ? Was not Pynson, 

 in 1497, the printer of the folio edition of the 

 Hymns and Serpiences entered in INIr. Dickinson's 

 valuable Lint of English Service- Books, p. 8. ; or 

 is there inaccuracy in the succeeding line? Lastly, 

 was the titular woodcut in Julian Notary's im- 

 pression, A. D. 1504 (Dibdin, ii. 580.), derived 

 from the ilecoration of the Hi/mnarins, and the 

 Textits Snqnnntiuniin cum Optimo comnento, set 

 forth at Delft by Christian Snellaert., in 1496 ? 

 From the first page of the hitter we receive the 

 following accession to our philological knowledge:; j 



"Dlaboliis (liiitur a fliii, quod est duo, et boJns 

 marsus ; quasi diipliciter inordcns ; quia locdit homi- 

 nem in corpore et anitna." 



(45.) (1.) Ill what edition of the Salisbury Mi^•sal 

 did the amusing errors in the " Ordo Sponsalium" 

 first occur; and how long were they continue<i? 



I allude to the husband's obligation, " to haue 

 and to holde fro tliys day wafor heier for wurs," &c., 

 and to the wife's pruilential promise, " to haiie et 

 to holde /or thys day." (2.) Are there any velkun 

 leaves in any copy in England of the folio impies- 

 sion very beautifully printed en rouge et noir " in 

 alma Parisiorum academia," die x. Kal. April, 

 1510? 



(46.) On the llthof last month (Jan.) somebody 

 advertised in "Notes and Queries" for Foxes 

 and Firebrands. In these days of trouble and re- 

 buke, when (if we may judge I'rom a recent article 

 savouring of Neal's second volume) it seems to be 

 expected that English gentlemen will, in a Maga- 

 zine that bears their name, be pleased witli a 

 rechauflfe of democratic obloquy upon the character 

 of the great reformer of their church, and will 

 look with favour upon Canterburies Doome, would 

 it not be desirable that Robert AVare's (and Nal- 

 son's) curious and important work should be 

 republished? If a reprint of it were to bo un- 

 dertaken, I would direct attention to a c<>]iy in 

 my possession of " Tiie Third and Last Tart," 

 Lond. 1689, which has many alterations marked 

 in MS. for a new edition, and which exhibits the 

 autograph of Henry Vv'are. 



(47.) Was CoHAUSEN the composer of " Clcri- 

 cus Deperrucatus ; sive, in fictitiis Clericorunj 

 Comis moderni seculi ostensa et explosa Vunitas : 

 Cum Figuris: Autore Annceo Rhisenno Vecchio, 

 Doctore Romano-Catholico," printed at Amster- 

 dam, and inscribed to Pope Benedict XIII. ? One 

 of the well-finished copperplates, page 12., repret 

 sents " Monsieur V Ahbe prenant du Tabac." 



(48.) Where can a copy of the earliest edition 

 of the Testumentiun XI7. Patriarcharwmho. foimil? 

 for if one had been easily obtainable, Grabe, Cave, 

 Ouuin, and Wharton {Ang. Sac. ii. 345.) would 

 not have treated the third impression as the first ; 

 and let it be noted by the way that " Clerico Eli- 

 chei-o" in Wharton must be a mistake for "Clerica 

 Nicolao." Moreover, how did the excellent Fa- 

 bricius (BibL vied, et inf. Latin., and also Cod. 

 P.seudepig. V. T., i. 758.) happen to connect 

 Menradus Moltherus with the editio priiiceps of 

 1483 ? It is certain that this writer's letter to 

 Secerius, accompanying a transcript of Bishop 

 Grossetete's version, which inmiediately came f )rtU 

 at Ilaguenau, was concluded "{)Ostridie Non. Ja- 

 nuar. m.d.xxxu." 



(49.) (1.) \\\\o was the bibliopolist vyitli whont 

 originated the pernicious scheme of adapting newly 

 printed title-pages to books which had had a ])re- 

 vious existence? Sometimes the deception may bo 

 discerned even at a glance : for example, without 

 the loss of many seconds, and by the aspect of 

 a single letter, (the long s,) we can ])erceivo 

 the falsehood of the imprint, " Parisiis, apu<l Paul 

 Mellier, 1842," together with " S.-Clodoaldi, ^■ 

 tiypographeo Bulin-]\Iandar," grafted upon tome i. 



