Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 | Page 7

from the following texts; all of
them remarkable, and the second and fourth especially so with
reference to the subsequent fate of the unhappy man, whose feelings
they may reasonably be supposed to embody.
The texts are as follows:--
1 Corinthians xvi. 22. "If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let
him be Anathema Maran-atha."
Micah vii. 8. "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when I fall, I
shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me."
Psalm cxxxix. 1, 2. "O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me.
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising, thou understandest
my thought afar off."
Deuteronomy xxviii. 65, 66, 67. "And among these nations thou shalt

find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; but the Lord
shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow
of mind: and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear
day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: In the morning
thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say,
Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou
shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see."
Q. D.
Hats of Cardinals and Notaries Apostolic (Vol. iii. p. 169.).--An
instance occurs in a MS. in this college (L. 10. p. 60.) circa temp. Hen.
VIII., of the arms of "Doctor Willm. Haryngton, prothonotaire
apostolik," ensigned with a black hat, having three tassels pendant on
each side: these appendages, however, are somewhat different to those
attached to the Cardinal's hat, the cords or strings not being fretty. I
have seen somewhere a series of arms having the same insignia; but, at
present, I cannot say where.
THOS WM. KING, YORK HERALD.
College of Arms, Feb. 17. 1851.
Baron Munchausen's Frozen Horn.--
"Till the Holy Ghost came to thaw their memories, that the words of
Christ, like the voice in Plutarch that had become frozen, might at
length become audible."--Hammond's Sermons, xvii.
These were first published in 1648.
E. H.
Contracted Names of Places.--Kirton for Crediton, Devon; Wilscombe
for Wiveliscombe, Somersetshire; Brighton for Brighthelmstone,
Sussex; Pomfret for Pontefract, Yorkshire; Gloster for Gloucester.
J. W. H.

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Queries.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES.
(Continued from Vol. iii., p. 139.)
(43.) Is there any valid reason for not dating the publication of some of
Gerson's treatises at Cologne earlier than the year 1470? and if good
cause cannot be shown for withholding from them so high a rank in the
scale of typographic being, must we not instantly reject every effort to
extenuate Marchand's obtuseness in asserting with reference to Ulric
Zell, "On ne voit des éditions de ce Zell qu'en 1494?" (Hist. de l'Imp., p.
56.) {183} Schelhorn's opinion as to the birthright of these tracts is
sufficient to awaken an interest concerning them, for he conceived that
they should be classed among the earliest works executed with cut
moveable characters. (Diat. ad Card. Quirini lib., p. 25. Cf. Seemiller, i.
105.) So far as I can judge, an adequate measure of seniority has not
been generally assigned to these Zellian specimens of printing, if it be
granted "Coloniam Agrippinam post Moguntinenses primùm recepisse
artem." (Meerman, ii. 106.) This writer's representation, in his ninth
plate, of the type used in 1467, supplies us with ground for a complete
conviction that these undated Gersonian manuals are at least as old as
the Augustinus de singularitate clericorum. But why are they not older?
Is there any document which has a stronger conjectural claim? Van de
Velde's Catalogue, tome i. Gand, 1831, contains notices of some of
them; and one volume before me has the first initial letter principally in
blue and gold, the rest in red, and all elaborated with a pen. The most
unevenly printed, and therefore, I suppose, the primitial gem, is the
Tractatus de mendicitate spirituali, in which not only rubiform capitals,
but whole words, have been inserted by a chirographer. It is, says Van
de Velde, (the former possessor,) on the fly-leaf, "sans chiffres et
réclames, en longues lignes de 27 lignes sur les pages entières." The
full stop employed is a sort of twofold, recumbent, circumflex or caret;
and the most eminent watermark in the paper is a Unicorn, bearing a
much more suitable antelopian weapon than is that awkwardly
horizontal horn prefixed by Dr. Dibdin to the Oryx in profile which he

has depicted in plate vi. appertaining to his life of Caxton:
Typographical Antiquities, vol. i.
(44.) Wherein do the ordinary Hymni et Sequentiæ differ from those
according to the use of Sarum? Whose is the oldest Expositio
commonly attached to both? and respecting it did Badius,