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

from page 421._)
(18.) What could have induced the accurate and learned Saxius (_Catal.
Lib. Mediol., edit._ p. DXC.) to give the name Elucidarium to the first
part of the Mariale of Bernardinus de Bustis? This writer, who has
sometimes erroneously been reputed a Dominican, and who is
commemorated in the Franciscan Martyrology on the 8th of May (p.
178.), derived his denomination from his family, and not "from a place
in the country of Milan," as Mr. Tyler has supposed. (_Worship of the
Virgin_, p. 41. Lond. 1846.) Elsewhere Saxius had said (_Hist.
Typog.-Liter. Mediol._, col. ccclii.) that the Mariale was printed for the
first time in 1493, and dedicated to Pope Alexander VI.; and Argelati

was led by him to consider the Elucidarium to be 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 Veronicæ_
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 "quæ
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 Veronicæ
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