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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. IX. Mar. 24. '60. 



Infamare cave, ceitamen inutile linque j 



Hie tibi certandi non locus ullus erit, 



Si certare libet campus qureratur apertus; • 



Hie sit amicitite floie refertus ager; 



Quem quoties oculis aspexero talia mecum, 



Ex imo tacitus pectore verba loquar; 



En fraterna manus fratris, fautoris, amici ; 



Hie tibi non ullo fine colendus erit, 



Huic ars 6 longam vitam, 6 largire quietam, 



Huic da perpetua prosperitate frui." 



The book is interleaved throughout, and the 

 friends of the writer seem to have willingly com- 

 plied with the request contained in the above 

 verses, as several of the blank pages contain me- 

 morials with the names of the writers and dates 

 subscribed ; most of these are written in a neat 

 German running-hand, but the words are rather 

 contracted ; there are also two or three entries in 

 Latin, of which the following is a specimen : — 



" Donee eris faslix, multos numerabis amicos 

 Nullas ad amissas ibit amicus opes. 

 Omnia si perdas famam servare memento, 

 Amicus certus re incerta cernitur." 



" Hsec ad perpetuam memoriam scribebat Tobias 

 Engelhartt. Anno 1001." 



This is the earliest entry on the blank leaves ; 

 the latest is dated 15th Dec. 1654. 



An artist has also left a memento of his skill : — 

 A youth with loose trousers, apparently laced 

 down the side, and extending a little below the 

 knees ; boots with large tops ; he holds some 

 cylindrical vessel in his right hand, his left rests 

 on the handle of a large sword ; he is also equip- 

 ped with a short jacket and hat. Perhaps the 

 writing on the back of this leaf has reference to 

 the picture, and contains the name of the artist ? 



On one of the fly-leaves at the end of the book 

 is the following inscription : — 



" Ipse duxit et perfuret (sic?) Antonius Stcrtrius? 

 magni Regis Persamm legatus Invictissimaj Caesarian 

 majestati." 



On the next leaf are some observations in Per- 

 sian characters. A folding leaf here inserted 

 contains a beautiful specimen of German penman- 

 ship. On the last fly-leaf is the Lord's Prayer in 

 German, with the writer's name, Bartholomew 

 Kees, and dated 23rd Aug. 1642 — the whole in a 

 circular space one half an inch in diameter. On 

 the inside of the cover, at the end, we have the 

 name of one of its former owners : " + dono dedit 

 frater Valentinus Wratisiavia, 4. Octob. Anno 

 1600 cum domino suo Viomam jam atiturus." A 

 little above is written : " accepi 4. 8 ober 1600, 

 zur Steinnau." The recipient unfortunately does 

 not give us his name. Is anything known about 

 the Persian ambassador above mentioned or 

 "frater Valentinus ?" Or was it the custom to 

 interleave books for the purpose of preserving 

 mementos in the autographs of eminent men ? 



R. C. 



Cork. 



Inside the covers of a copy of the editio princeps; 

 of Josephus, Froben, 1544 : — 



" Eraptus Basileae duobus unceis 

 Calendis Aprilis, Anno 1550. 

 Compactus et legi cceptus Lutetiae 

 Parisiorum vij Junij, anno eodem. 



'EKevaov Vf/.a<r, o> tcvpit, t'ovtcuttc kcu Oavovras. 



Quominus est certe mentis indebita nostris, 

 Magna tamen spes est in bonitate dei. 



Hieronymus Wolfius 

 iEtingensis." 



The margins of the volume contain great num- 

 bers of MS. annotations and corrections by Je- 

 rome Wolff. 



On the fly-leaf of a copy (in the original bind- 

 ing) of — 



" Directonum 



in dnice passiois articulos. 



Basil, 1513," — 



occurs the following inscription, which I should 

 be very glad to have decyphered : — 

 " 18 Augusti die. 

 (Crown.) 

 * V * 



15. 19. 

 I.D.D.E.V.V.G 

 .C." 



X. 

 West Derby. 



Inscription on Fly-leaf of a Breeches 

 Bible, 1608: 



" John Petty his book, 

 God give him grace therein to Looke: 

 And when thee Bell doth begin to toole, 

 Lord Jesus Christ Receive his Soule. 1 ;G :7 -.1." 



ESLIGH. 



THE OLD AMERICAN PSALM BOOK. 



Bibliographers are agreed that the Bay Psalm 

 Book was first published in 1640 ; 2nd edition, 

 1647 ; and that, although neither place nor prin- 

 ter are named, it was in both cases executed at 

 Cambridge, N. E. by Stephen Daye. Of the first, 

 Dr. Cotton* says there is a copy in the Bodleian ; 

 but, if we rely upon the Catalogue, there is not a 

 copy of either edition to be found in the British 

 Museum. 



In looking up at the Museum lately the Metri- 

 cal Psalms of Francis Rous, I "came upon an 

 anonymous version bearing his name on the title 

 in a modern hand ; but a very slight examination 

 satisfied me that the compilers had too hastily 

 adopted this authority, when they posted it into 

 the Catalogue as the work of that famous republi- 



* This gentleman, however, errs in saying that the 

 second edition contains " Scripture Songs ;" these, I pre- 

 sume, were added for the first time to the third edition, 

 revised by Dunstar & Lyon, 



