ii s. xii. OCT. 2, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1915.
CONTENTS. No. 301.
NOTES: The So-called Psalter of St. Columba, 253 Crosby Hall, 254 Words in Bishop Douglas's ' Eneados, 255 Verses by James Smith Lightning Folk-Lore Alcester ' Punch ' : its Pagination Feather-Beds Capt. Gordon of the Chesapeake, 257 Swan Superstition, 258.
QUERIES : Wedding Ring and "Left-Handed" Marriage Cold Harbour at Hackney Alice Holt Forrest Guidott Family, 258 Stephen Ron j at Southampton The Comical Gills Major Le Hardy Lieut. -Col. T. Hardy ' The Passionate Pilgrim ' Liddington or Leddington Heiress Funeral Rites : Beards ' The Morning Chronicle 'William Raynford of Bradfield Hall, 259 Bishop Elphinstone's Badge Virgil and Theocritus Controversy between John Bowles and Mr. Jennings- Mrs. Simuel Foote Seal of Abbot of Ramsey " Nondum in auge " : " Nondum metam "Etruscan Surgical Instru ments H. Meidinger " Sea-Trumpet," 260.
REPLIES: The Fabric of Cathedrals, 261 The Site of the Globe, 264 Laura Jewry, afterwards Mrs. Valentine Authorized Version of the Bible Thomas Washer- Violation of Sanctuary English Pirate's Haul "Poilu, 1 266 Folk-Speech : " Plain "Heraldic Query : Boteler Arms Crest on Seal ' The Trusty Servant,' 267 Ger mania : Tedesco Fitzjames Bookworms, 268 The White Rose of York, 269 Translation of Verlaine Wanted Epitaphs at Winterton Capture of Trincoroalee John Camden Hotten Martyrs in England, 270 " Narthex " Major Semple " Daie Workes " and " Rodds "Wan- stead Park 4 ' Conversation " Cooke, 271.
NOTES ON BOOKS : 'Barnff Charters.' OBITUARY : Mr. John Tavenor-Perry. Notices to Correspondents.
THE SO-CALLED PSALTER OF
ST. COLUMBA. (See 11 S. xi. 466.)
IN view of the great antiquity and interest of this fragmentary Psalter, which I de- scribed at length in ' N. & Q.' for 19 June of the present year, it may be well to record some further variants and orthographic peculiarities which I had noted in the text : 67. 3, defecit. 77. 25, cybariam. 80. 4, nos- trae. 80. 5, Israhel. 80. 9, contestificabor. 81. 1, deus (ds with horizontal stroke over the s) for deos. 81. 7, caditis. 93. 7, intellegit, 95. 2, nomen. 101. 5, percusum eat.
Great difficulties are experienced in study- ing the text of the Vulgate Psalter owing to the absence of a critical edition. It may be remarked that the readings saeculo (80. 16) and inmittis (103. 10) occur in the form of text presented by the Codex Amiatinus (cf. the collation by Heyse and Tischendorf , ' Biblia Sacra Latina, Vet. Test.,' Lipsiae, 1873).
The largest leaf of the MS. measures approximately 20 by 13*5 cms., and the
smallest 14 by 12 cms. The leaves have been
most carelessly bound together. The proper
order would be : 1 b, 1 a, 3 b, 3 a, 2 b, 2 a,
4 a 11 b, 12 b, 12 a, 13 a 34 b, 36 a, 36 b,
35 a, 35 b, 37 a 41 b, 43 a, 43 b, 42 a, 42 b,
44 a 58 b. The rubric to Ps. 81 reads :
In finem psalmus Asaph iiox ecclesiae de
iudaeis.
The ornamental marginal signs represent, perhaps, some definite attempt at punctua- tion.
With regard to textual peculiarities, we see quite a number of mistakes due to care- lessness and ignorance on the part of the scribe. Such are, among others, deorauimus for devoravimus, imferii for inferi, uefiae tuae for varietate, aula for olla, manus manus for manus meas, in pinguine for et pinguedine, silis for similis, stillentia for stillantia, princibus for principibus, uenuntium for venantium, tribus for tribubus, cornae for corneae, gremia for cremium, omnes for omnis. Others are : mellis for melle, audipe for adipe, missisem for misissem, uis for viis, simitis for sumitis, cybariam for cibaria, incederunt for inciderunt, persequabar for persequebar.
Of peculiarities common to Hiberno-Latin MSS. generally we note :
(a) Addition of a, e.g., aegenum, aepu- lantis, aequus, caedrus, caera, depraecor, incaedOy saequebar, spraeuit, uariaetatibus.
(b) Omission of a, e.g., deargentate, silue, terre.
(c) e for i, e.g., deluculo, dimedio, diregetur, dilegite, deuertity redemet, sempeternum y sus- tenuissem.
(d) i for e, e.g., calciamentum, cicidit, dimissit, dilectabor, diridebis, discendunt, dulcidinis, flagilla.
e) y for t, e.g., cybabis, cybariam, cylicium, hyrcoSy scnyfes, synu, ymbres, cythara, cybauit. (/) u for o y e.g., dulore, lucusta, corro- burauit.
(g) Consonants not assimilated, e.g., adnun- liabo, adfligit, adpraehendit, conlidetur, conri- y conplaceaty inluminatio, inmaculatorum, inpleti, inridebit, obprobrium, subponit.
(h) Consonants added, e.g., habundaniiay haranea, heremOy holera, abhominabileSy brac- calumpniatoremy sollempnitatis, tempta- confussioy 1 bassiliscum, inlussionibua, missity 2 possuiy propossuerunt, uusione t occas- sum.
(i) Consonants omitted, e.g., abysus, 3 con~ fesio, bucinate, diluio t erenaciisy fluios, gresus,
1 We find also the correct coi/tmo.
2 Also mm/. 3 Also abyssus.
