Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 | Page 5

ac totus formicarii liber uxta editionem fratris
Iohannis Nider," &c., "Impressum Auguste per Anthonium Sorg."
10. In what place and year was Wilhelmi Summa Viciorum first printed?
Fabricius and Cave are certainly mistaken when they say Colon. 1479.
In the volume, which I maintain to be of greater antiquity, the letters c
and _t_, s and _t_, are curiously united, and the commencement of it is:
"Incipit summa viciorum seu tractatus moral' edita [_sic_] a fratre
vilhelmo episcopo lugdunes. ordinsq. fratrû predicator." The
description given by Quetif and Echard (i. 132.) of the primary
impression of Perault's book only makes a bibliomaniac more anxious
for information about it: "in Inc. typ. absque loco anno et nomine
typographi, sine numeris reclamat. et majusculis."
11. Was Panormitan's Lectura super primo Decretalium indubitably
issued at Venice, prior to the 1st of April, 1473? and if so, does it

contain in the colophon these lines by Zovenzonius, which I transcribe
from a noble copy bearing this date?
"Abbatis pars prima notis que fulget aliemis Est vindelini pressa labore
mei: Cuius ego ingenium de vertice palladis ortum Crediderim. veniam
tu mihi spira dabis."
12. Is it not unquestionable that Heroldt's Promptuarium Exemplorum
was published at least as early as his _Sermones_? The type in both
works is clearly identical, and the imprint in the latter, at the end of
_Serm._ cxxxvi., vol. ii., is Colon. 1474, an edition unknown to very
nearly all bibliographers. For instance, Panzer and Denis commence
with that of Rostock, in 1476; Laire {325} with that of Cologne, 1478;
and Maittaire with that of Nuremberg, in 1480. Different statements
have been made as to the precise period when this humble-minded
writer lived. Altamura (_Bibl. Domin._, pp. 147. 500.) places him in
the year 1400. Quetif and Echard (i. 762.), Fabricius and Mansi (_Bibl.
Med. et inf. Latin._), prefer 1418, on the unstable ground of a
testimony supposed to have proceeded from the author himself; for
whatever confusion or depravation may have been introduced into
subsequent impressions, the _editio princeps_, of which I have spoken,
does not present to our view the alleged passage, viz., "à Christo autem
transacti sunt millequadringenti decem et octo anni," but most plainly,
"M.cccc. & liij. anni." (_Serm._ lxxxv., tom. ii.) To this same
"Discipulus" Oudin (iii. 2654.), and Gerius in the Appendix to Cave (p.
187.), attribute the _Speculorum Exemplorum_, respecting which I
have before proposed a Query; but I am convinced that they have
confounded the Speculum with the Promptuarium. The former was first
printed at Deventer, A.D. 1481, and the compiler of it enters upon his
prologue in the following striking style: "Impressoria arte jamdudum
longe lateque per orbem diffusa, multiplicatisque libris quarumcunque
fere materiarum," &c. He then expresses his surprise at the want of a
good collection of _Exempla_; and why should we determine without
evidence that he must have been Heroldus?
R.G.
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FAIRFAX'S TASSO.
In a copy of Fairfax's _Godfrey of Bulloigne_, ed. 1600 (the first),
which I possess, there occurs a very curious variorum reading of the
first stanza of the first book. The stanza, as it is given by Mr. Knight in
his excellent modern editions, reads thus:
"The sacred armies and the godly knight, That the great sepulchre of
Christ did free, I sing; much wrought his valour and foresight, And in
that glorious war much suffer'd he; In vain 'gainst him did hell oppose
her might, In vain the Turks and Morians armed be; His soldiers wild,
to brawls and mutines prest, Reduced he to peace, so heaven him
blest."
By holding up the leaf of my copy to the light, it is easy to see that the
stanza stood originally as given above, but a cancel slip printed in
precisely the same type as the rest of the book gives the following
elegant variation:
"I sing the warre made in the Holy Land, And the Great Chiefe that
Christ's great tombe did free: Much wrought he with his wit, much with
his hand, Much in that braue atchieument suffred hee: In vaine doth
hell that Man of God withstand, In vaine the worlds great princes
armed bee; For heau'n him fauour'd; and he brought againe Vnder one
standard all his scatt'red traine."
Queries.--1. Does the above variation occur in any or many other
copies of the edition of 1600?
2. Which reading is followed in the second old edition?
T.N.
Demerary, September 11. 1850.
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MINOR QUERIES.

_Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium._--Book I. chap. 2. Rule 8. §
14.--
"If he (the judge) see a stone thrown at his brother judge, as happened
at Ludlow, not many years since."
(The first ed. was published in 1660). Does any other contemporary
writer mention this circumstance? or is there any published register of
the