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NOTES: — The Editio Princeps of Hernias, &c. : Liber 

 Trium Viroruni ft Trillin Spiritualiuni Virginuni, 357 — 

 Transposition, 358 — Toinlistones, Epitaphs, &c, lb. — 

 Story of a Mermaid, 360 — TJr Chastlim and Fire Worship, 

 361. ' 



Misoe Notes : — Errors in Modern Books on the Peerage— 

 The late Duke of Wellington — Greek Vases and Lamps, 

 868. 



QUERIES: — Lappets — Sir Jonas Moore — Discoloured 

 Coins — Wm. Mason — Clifton of Leighton Bromswold : 

 Extinct Barony — Quist — Excommunication — "Scrip- 

 ture Religion " — Books for Middle Class Examinations — 

 — Knights created by the Pretender — Diversity of Plan in 

 the Monasteries of the different Orders — " Poor Belle " — 

 "Three Hundred Letters" — Wordsworth Travestie — 

 *' Sudgcdluit," its Etymology — Sir John Bowring — Earl 

 of Gal-way, 363. 



Qckbies with Axswebs: — " Saltfoot Controversy" — 

 Ursinus — Assumption of Titles — Old Etchings — J. F. 

 Bryant — Crypt under Gerrard's Hall — Hell Fire Club — 

 Cox's Mechanism, 365. 



REPLIES : — Alleged Interpolations in the " Te Deum," 

 367 — Maloniana, 368 — Cimex Lectularius : Bugs : Bug, 

 '369 — Flambard Brass at Harrow, 370 — Internal Arrange- 

 ment of Churches, lb. — Dr. Thomas Comber, 371 — He- 

 raldic Engraving, lb. — Mille jugera — Hale the Piper — 

 Black-Guard — Edgar Family — Hymns — Drisheens — 

 The Sinews of War and the Rev. Mr. Struther— Mr. 

 Lyde Brown — My Eye Betty Martin — Chalking the Doors 

 — " Epistohe Obscurorum Virorum " — " Jack " — Epitaph 

 in Memory of a Spaniard, 372. . 



Notes on Books. 



fiate*. 



THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF HERMAS, ETC.: 

 LIBER TRIUM VIRORUM ET TRIUM SPIRI- 

 TUALIUM VIRGINUM. 



This curious volume was printed by Henry 

 Stephen at Paris in 1513, and has, I believe, never 

 been fully described. It contains twelve leaves 

 of preliminary matter, and 190 of text. The size 

 ia small folio. The title-page exhibits six pic- 

 torial representations of the authors, whose works 

 are included in the volume, viz. Hermas, Ugue- 

 linus, F. liobertus, Hildegardis, Elizabeth, and 

 Meehtildis. The work is wholly in Latin, and 

 i.s remarkable on several accounts. It contains 

 the first edition of the Latin version of the Shep- 

 herd of Hennas. Dibdin says Fabricius names 

 it, " but no such work appears in the Life, or 

 in the list of that printer's (II. Stephen's) work, 

 by Maittaire, and Panzer has not recorded the 

 volume." He adds in a note that Ittigius men- 

 tions this edition. The work is therefore doubt- 

 less one of some rarity, and it may be as well to 

 record its positive existence, and to hazard a 

 lotnre ns to the cause of its almost complete 

 ance. 



The dedication is by Jacob Faber, who I take 

 lobe the well-known Jacobus Faber Stapulensis, 

 or Jacques le Fetre, equally famous for his learn- 

 ing, and the troubles brought upon him by his 



suspected heresies. We may fairly ascribe to 

 him the editorship of the book. The text of 

 Hernias is valuable, as exhibiting numerous read- 

 ings which differ from such modern editions as 

 I have access to. Hermas is followed by a brief 

 Vision by Uguetinu?, who is described as a monk 

 of Metz, the object being the condemnation of 

 unnatural sins. Of this writer I can obtain no 

 farther information. Very scanty also are the 

 details which I can obtain respecting the third 

 author in the book, Robert, a monk of the Domi- 

 nican order, who lived at the end of the thirteenth 

 century, and must not be confounded with ano- 

 ther famous Robert, who, at a later date, was so 

 fearless and powerful a preacher, and known as 

 Robert Carraccioli or de Licio (//or. 1480). Our 

 Robert deals in visions and prophecies, denouncing 

 the vices and crimes of the popes and clergy, and 

 threatening them with the vengeance of heaven. 

 None of the reformers exceeded the violence of 

 language employed by Friar Robert in 1291, and 

 none of them claimed to speak as he did by direct 

 inspiration. His book consists of two parts, — a 

 Book of discourses of our Lord Jesus Christ, and 

 a Book of visions which the Lord gave his ser- 

 vant to see. Popes, prelates, princes, and peo- 

 ples fall alike under his chastisement. The fourth 

 author is St. Hildegard, who belongs to the 

 twelfth century, and whose renown during her 

 lifetime was so great as to win her the favour of 

 several popes in succession. The book -here 

 printed is a long series of visions under the title 

 of Scivias, and contains very much to wonder 

 at, whether considered as a divine revelation 

 or a woman's composition. At the Council of 

 Treves, in 1148, Bernard of Clairvaux endorsed 

 her claims to inspiration, and Pope Eugenius IH. 

 authorised and encouraged her by a special epistle 

 to utter and to write whatever the Holy Ghost re- 

 vealed to her. The fifth author is Elizabeth, who 

 also flourished in the diocese of Treves about 1 152 . 

 Here are five books, four of which are chiefly 

 visions, and the fifth letters ; a sixth is added by 

 her brother Egbert. The perusal of this work 

 would be a rare treat for those who are curious in 

 such matters, as it is a marvellous specimen of 

 mental hallucination and credulity. Neverthe- 

 less she boldly condemns the vices of the times, 

 both in men and women ; towards the latter she 

 is very severe, especially for tight lacing (stric- 

 tura vestimenti), and for arrogantia crinalis operi- 

 7ne7iti. Whether this latter means crinoline or 

 something very different can hardly be proved by 

 the* words. Our sixth author is Meehtildis, who 

 is supposed to have died about A d. 1290. The 

 only work ascribed to her is that here printed, 

 " Revelations, or Spiritual Grace," a conglomera- 

 tion of all sorts of fancies, which it is needless to 

 enumerate. 



Such is the volume before me, the rarity of 



