Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 | Page 9

a distinct performance; and he speaks of the Mariale as having been published in 1494. (_Biblioth. Scriptor. Med._, tom. i. p. ii. 245.) Unquestionably the real title assigned by the author to the first part of his Sermonarium or Mariale was "PERPETUUM SILENTIUM," and it was inscribed to Alexander's predecessor, Pope Innocent VIII.; and, in conjunction with De Bustis's Office of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary (sanctioned by a Brief of Pope Sixtus IV., who in 1476 had issued the earliest pontifical decree in favour of an innovation now predominant in the Church of Rome), was primarily printed "Mli," that is, _Mediolani_, "per Uldericum scinzenzeler, Anno dni M.cccc.lxxxxij" (1492). Wharton, Olearius, Clement, and Maittaire knew nothing of this edition; and it must take precedence of that of Strasburg named by Panzer (i. 47.).
(19.) Can any particulars be easily ascertained relative to reprints of the acts of the canonisation of the Seraphic Doctor in their original small quarto shape?
(20.) To whom should we attribute the rare tract entitled _Lauacrum conscientie omnium sacerdotum_, which consists of fifty-eight leaves, and was printed in Gothic letter at Cologne, "Anno post Jubileum quarto?"
(21.) Where can information be met with as to the authorship of the _Dialogus super Libertate Ecclesiastica_, between Hugo, Cato, and Oliver? Fischer (_Essai sur Gutenberg_, 79.) traces back the first edition to the year 1463; but I know the treatise only in the form in which it was republished at Oppenheim in 1516.
(22.) Who was the compiler or curator of the _Viola Sanctorum_? and can the slightest attempt be made at verifying the signatures and numbers inserted in the margin, and apparently relating to the MSS. from which the work was taken? One of two copies before me was printed at Nuremberg in 1486, but the other I believe to belong to the earliest impression. It is of small folio size, in very Gothic type, perhaps of the year 1472, without date, place, or name of printer, and is destitute of cyphers, catchwords, and signatures. There are ninety-two leaves in the volume, and in each page generally thirty-three (sometimes thirty-four, rarely thirty-five) lines. (See Brunet, iii. 547.; Kloss, 280.; Panzer, i. 193.)
(23.) By what means can intelligence be procured respecting "Doctor Ulricus," the author of _Fraternitas Cleri_? A satisfactory reply to this inquiry might probably be found in the _Bibl. Spenceriana_; but I have not now an opportunity of determining this point.
(24.) A question has been raised by Dr Maitland, from whose admirable criticism nothing connected with literature is likely to escape, as to the meaning of the letters "P.V." placed over a sudarium held by St. Peter and St. Paul. (_Early printed Books in the Lambeth Library_, pp. 115. 368.) Any person who has happened to obtain the _Vitas Patrum_, decorated with the curious little woodcuts of which Dr. Maitland has carefully represented two, will cheerfully agree with him in maintaining the excellence of the acquisition. In a copy of this work bearing date 1520, eleven years later than the Lambeth volume (_List_, p. 85.), the reverse of the leaf which contains the colophon exhibits the same sudarium, in company with the words "Salve sancta Facies." This circumstance inclines me to venture to ask whether my much-valued friend will concur with me in the conjecture that _Pictura Veronic?_ may be the interpretation of "P.V.?" Though the pseudo-Archbishop of Westminster declared, in the simplicity of his heart (_Letters to John Poynder, Esq._, p. 6.), that he had "never met" with the sequence "qu? dicitur in Missa Votiva _de Vultu Sancto_," doubtless some of his newly-arrested subjects are {441} well aware that it exists, and that its commencement (see Bona, iii. 144.) is,--
"Salve sancta Facies nostri Redemptoris, In qua nitet species divini splendoris, Impressa panniculo nivei candoris, Dataque Veronic? signum ob amoris."
R.G.
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MINOR QUERIES.
_Dr. Timothy Thruscross._--What is known of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Thruscross, Thirscross, or Thurscross? I am in possession of the very little related by Wood, _Ath. Oxon. et Fasti_, Walker's _Sufferings of the Clergy_, _Life of Barwich_, and the interesting notices scattered in several parts of Sir H. Slingsby's _Diary_; but this only renders me anxious for more, and I should be glad to receive other references.
W. DN.
_Echo Song._--_Meaning of Thwaites._--Would you be kind enough to insert the inclosed poem as I am very desirous of being made acquainted with the name of the writer. I expect, from various reasons, that it was written about the year 1645:--
AN ECHO.
"What wantst thou, that thou art in this sad taking? _A King._ What made him first remove hence his residing? _Siding._ Did any here deny him satisfaction? _Faction._ Tell me wherein the strength of faction lies? _On Lies._ What didst though when the king left his parliament? _Lament._ What terms wouldst give to gain his company? _Any._