Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 | Page 9

together with the summary in the margin, "Papa nec Deus est nec
homo," which appears in every old edition; for instance, in that of Paris,
1532, sig. aa. iij. So far the matter looks well, and the prospect is not
hopeless. These glosses, however, were revised by another master of
the Apostolic Palace, Sixtus Fabri, and were edited, under the sanction
of Pope Gregory XIII., in the year 1580; and from this authentic
impression the impious panegyric has not been withdrawn. The
marginal abridgment has, in compliance with Manriq's direction, been
exterminated; and this additional note has been appended as a
palliative:--
"Hæc verba sano modo sunt accipienda: prolata enim sunt ad
ostendendum amplissimam esse Romani Pontificis potestatem."--Col. 4.
ed. Paris, 1585.
R.G.

Poeta Anglicus (Vol ii., p. 167).--I cannot answer J.B.'s Queries; but I
have fallen upon a _cross scent_, which perchance may lead to their
discovery.
1. Ioannes Pitseus, _de Scriptor. ad ann._ 1250, (_Relat. Histor. de
Rebus Anglicis_, ed. Par. 1619, p. 322.), gives the following account
"de Michaele Blaunpaino:"--
"Michael Blaunpainus, vulgo Magister cognominatus, natione Anglus,
patria Cornubiensis, ... missus Oxonium, deinde Parisios, ... præ cæteris
se dedidit elegantiæ linguæ Latinæ, fuitque inter præcipuos sui
temporis poetus per Angliam potissimum et Galliam numeratus. Hunc
subinde citat Textor in Cornucopia sub nomine Michaelis Anglici.... In
lucem emisit: Historiarum Normanniæ, librum unum: Contra Henricum
Abrincensem versu. librum unum. Archipoeta vide, quod non sit. (_MS.
in Bibliotheca Lunleiana._) Epistolarum et carminum, librum unum.
Claruit anno Messiæ 1250, sub Henrici tertii regno."
2. Valerius Andreas, however, gives a somewhat different account of
Michael Anglicus. In his _Biblioth. Belg._ ed. 8vo. Lovan, 1623, p.
609., he says:
"Michael Anglicus, Bellimontensis, Hanno, I. V. Professor et _Poeta_,
scripsit:
Eclogarum, libros iv., ad Episc. Parisien. Eclogarum, libb. ii., ad Lud.
Villerium. De mutatione studiorum, lib. i. Elegiam deprecatoriam.
Et alia, quæ Paris. sunt typis edita. Hujus eruditionem et Poemata Bapt.
Mantuanus et Joannes Ravisius Testor epigrammate commendarunt:
hic etiam in Epithetis suis Anglici auctoritatem non semel adducit."
3. Franciscus Sweertius (_Athenæ Belgricoe_, ed. Antv. 1628, p. 565.)
gives a similar account to this of Valerius Andreas.
4. And the account given by Christopher Hendreich Brandebargca, (ed.
Berolini, 1699, p. 193.) is substantially the same; viz.,

"Anglicus Michael cognomine, sed natione Gallus, patria Belmontensis,
utriusque juris Professor, scripsit Eclogarum, lib. iv. ad Episc." &c ...
"Et diversorum carminum libros aliquot, quæ omnia Parisiis impressa
sunt. Claruit autem A.C. 1500."
5. Moreri takes notice of this apparent confusion made between two
different writers, who lived two centuries and a half apart. Speaking of
the later {233} of the two, he says (_Dictionnaire Historique_, Paris,
1759, tom. i. par. ii. p. 87.):--
"Anglicus (Michel), natif de Beaumont dans le Hainaut, qui vivoit dans
le XVI. siècle, étoit poëte et professeur en droit. Nous avons divers
ouvrages de sa façon, des églogues, un traité _de mutatione studiorum_,
&c. (Valer. Andreas, _Bibl. Belg._) Quelques auteurs l'ont confondu
avec Michel Blaumpain. (Voyez Blaumpain.)" #/
Of the earlier Anglicus, Moreri says (ubi sup., tom. ii. par. i. p. 506.):
"Blaumpain (Michel) surnommé _Magister_, Anglois de nation, et
_Poëte_, qui vivoit vers l'an 1250. Il est nommé par quelques-un
Michel Anglicus. Mais il y a plus d'apparence que c'étoient deux auteurs
différens; dont l'un composa une histoire de Normandie, et un traité
contre Henri d'Avranches; et l'autre laissa quelques pièces de
poësies;--Eclogarum, libri iv., ad Episcopum Parisiensem; Eclogarum,
libri ii., ad Ludovicum Villerium, De mutatione studioram, Elogia
deprecatoria, &c. Baptiste Mantuan parle de Michel Anglicus, qui étoit
de Beaumont dans l'Hainault. (Pitseus, _De Script. Angl._ p. 322.;
Valerius Andreas in _Bibl_, p. 670.)"
Perhaps some of your readers may have access to a copy of the Paris
impression of Michael Anglicus, mentioned by Andreas, Sweertius,
and Hendreich. J.B. will not need to be reminded of these words of
Innocent III., in his first serm. de consecr. Pont. Max., in which he
claimed, as St. Peter's successor, to be
"Inter Deum et hominem medius constitutus; citra Deum, sed ultra
hominem; minor Deo, sed major homine: qui de omnibus judicat, et a
nemine judicatur."--_Innocentii tertii Op._, ed. Colon. 1575, tom. i., p.

189.
Did the claim originate with Pope Innocent?
J. Sansom.
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CAXTON'S PRINTING-OFFICE.
I must protest against the manner in which Arun (Vol. ii., p. 187.) has
proceeded with the discussion of Caxton's printing at Westminster.
Though writing anonymously himself, he has not hesitated to charge
me by name with a desire to impeach the accuracy of Mr. C. Knight's
_Life of Caxton_, of which, and of other works of the same series, he
then volunteers as the champion, as if they, or any one of them, were
the object of a general attack. This is especially unfair, as I made the
slightest possible allusion to Mr. Knight's work, and