2»* S. VI. 148., Oct. 30. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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was sold by them to the late Frank Hall Standish, 

 Esq , who bequeathed it, with the rest of his col- 

 lection, to King Louis Philippe. It is now in the 

 possession of H. R. H. the Duke d'Aumale, and 

 is one of the choicest ornaments of his fine library 

 at Twickenham. There never was any copy upon 

 vellum of this Polyglott Bible in the British Mu- 

 seum, but there are three copies upon paper : — 

 No. 1., in the library of George III. No. 2., the 

 beautiful copy from the library of Thuanus, which 

 was bequeathed (together with Thuanus's copy of 

 the first Homer) by Mr. Cracherode to his friend 

 Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, who be- 

 queathed both books to the Museum, in order 

 that they might be reunited to the Cracherode 

 library. No. 3., a very fine copy in the Grenville 

 Collection. H. F. 



Topographical Excursion in 1634. — This in- 

 teresting MS., which is alluded to by Mr. Gutch 

 (2"'' S. vi. 261.), is very copiously extracted from 

 and commented upon in I3rayley's Graphic and 

 Historical Illustrator (1834). The notice of the 

 MS. extends through twenty-seven 4to. pages, and 

 from the continuance of the extracts from the 

 starting at Norwich to the return to that city, I 

 conclude that the larger part, perhaps nearly the 

 •whole, of the Itinerary is given. I refer to Mr. 

 Brayley's publication, because many persons may 

 have an opportunity of turning to that very de- 

 lightful volume who may not easily have access to 

 the Lansdowne MS. in the Museum. 



PisHET Thompson. 



Parismus and the Knight of the Oracle (2"'' S. vi. 

 310.) — 



" Lot 2058. 2nd Part Cat. of Dr. Bliss's sale [Philips 

 (John, Milton's Nephew)'\, Don Juan Lamberto, or a 

 Comical History' of our late Times, by Montelion, Knight 

 of the Oracle, frontispiece, black-letter. Very scarce, 4to. 

 Printed for H. Marsb, 1665." 



»*, " This was Mr. Bindley's copy (with his autograph 

 signature), which he lent to Godwin for his Lives ofE. 

 and J. Phillips, and was the only one he had seen or 

 heard of." 



In Dr. Bliss's Sale Catalogue, lat part, p. 229. 



" Lot 32 JC. Parisimus. The most famous, delectable, 

 and pleasant History of Parismus, the most renowned 

 Pririce of Bohemia, 2 parts in I. ; black-letter, seventh 

 impression, imperfect, but has frontispieces and titles, 

 166-1— 65. 



" Lot 3207. Parismus, 13th impression ; 2 vols, in one, 

 black-letter, fine copy, 1689. 



"Lot 320S. Parismus, 12th impression; 2 vols, in one, 

 black-letter, calf gilt, 1684." 



No doubt this is the work Metacom inquires 

 about. Belater-Adime. 



Jndiis Iscuriot, Manner of his Death (2'"' S. vi. 

 282.) — The following remarks are made as the 

 result of reading very nearly all that has been 

 written worth perusal on this subject, i do not 

 concur with the opinion as to the apparatus of a 



long rope and high beam, nor with Alford as to 

 the irreconcilable discrepancy of the Gospel and 

 Acts. The words to be reconciled are these : — 



" And departed and went and hanged himself." (Jilatt. 

 xxvii. 5.) 



" And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, 

 and all his bowels gushed out." (^Acts, i. 18.) 



Matthew sometimes writes briefly and suc- 

 cinctly, omitting minor circumstances, which the 

 succeeding Evangelists recorded. Luke accord- 

 ingly states certain particulars for the special in- 

 formation of Theophilus in reporting the words of 

 Peter {Acts, i. 15 — 22.), which Matthew omits, 

 as he does also the words of the penitent thief. 

 The fall mentioned by Peter, who may have re- 

 ferred to the hanging, although Luke did not re- 

 port it, probably originated with the breaking or 

 the cutting of the rope by which Judas was sus- 

 pended, either before or after decomposition had 

 commenced. This view is in the main concurred 

 in by Jahn and Kuinoel. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Quotation from Hippocrates ? (2"'* S. iii. 508.) 

 — Your correspondent Medicus Junior has di- 

 rected attention to a fine sentiment which is 

 worthy of being preserved in the present day. 

 The physician's business is curare, to take care of 

 his patient, while to God alone belongs the power 

 to heal. The quotation given by Medicus Ju- 

 nior is not from Hippocrates, but something 

 nearly approaching it may be found in Galen's 

 Commentaries on that author. Not having the 

 work at hand, I cannot refer to the locus in quo, 

 but it will be easily found, as there is a chapter 

 specially devoted to the subject. The following 

 couplet embodies the sentiment, perhaps as well 

 as can be done in a few words : — 



" Est medici curare, auroque remunerat »ger ; 

 Sanare e coelo, muuere gratuito." 



Ancient Medal (2°'* S. vi. 255.) — I have care- 

 fully examined that which I called a medal (p. 

 207.), and on removing some earthy substance 

 from the edge, two small holes about the size of 

 a large pin can be distinctly seen at parallel 

 points in the edge, through which two small silk 

 cords may have been passed. The lead also seems 

 to have been originally in two pieces. Instead of 

 a medal, there seems no doubt that it is " the 

 stamped lead, or ' bulla,'" as suggested by Dr. 

 Rock. Are they scarce of so early a date as Pope 

 Clement VL ? Ina. 



Wells, Somerset. 



Sonday and Sunday (2"'^ S. vi. 263.) — Before 

 its orthography had been settled by authoritative 

 use, the word Sonday represented better than 

 Sunday its etymologic origin, being equivalent to 

 the German sonntag {■=sonne-tag) and Anglo- 

 Saxon sonne-daeg, or "day of the sun." Al- 



