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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* B. v. JUNE so, igoe.
Gemmae/ p. 20, " Soc. Papse ! 6 Alcibiades
quo pressus es morbo 1 "
Sion College Library. ' Peregrinationes in Indiam,' De Bry. Printed in German type and language at "Franckfurt am Mayn,' April, 1598. Punctuation : / for comma, semicolon, and full stop, except at end of a paragraph or a group of sentences, when the point on the line is used. The distinc- tion is hard to see. Perhaps it would be true to say that the full stop is used, though not so frequently as now. / = ; very frequent.
" Kamen sie ans Eisz Eck / von dannen
fuhren sie den " " .der See Happen /
Insulen / Statten und Volcker / "
Note also " Geruffen : Wer da?"
No ! found. " Johann " so written.
Sipn Library. 'Peregrinationes in Indiam : India Orientalist De Bry. Printed in Latin at Frankfort (" Francoforti "), 1607. We have the two forms of &, viz., & in the roman. and 3 in the italic. There are three question marks 4 . The abbreviation markt are two, e g. t aliisq. ; in roman, and 5 in italic. The punctuation has commas and periods only. The diphthong ce is represented as 6 .
Sion. K \rjnevTos A Ae Opera. Printed
in Latin and Greek (parallel) at Paris (Typis Regiis) in 1641. Has throughout full modern punctuation in Latin and Greek ; parentheses also. Italics are used for quotations, no quotation marks. No exclamation is found.
The Greek is very ligatured. *' tuum,
6 Rex. = w ava, so that there is probably no use of ! in the book.
Sion, from Archbishop Tenison. Bible. Printed in Latin at Venice in 1650. At Ps. cxxxix. 17 there is no mark of interro- gation nor of exclamation ; nor at Ixxxiv., last verse (" beat' homo qui sperat in te "). The punctuation is by colons and periods.
Sion. Bible. Printed in " Romansch " in 1679. Has a few ecphonemes (!). They, like the ?, are small in stature, and quite straight and simple (!). I find them in Ps. Ixxxiv., last verse, and Ps. cxxxix. 17 (or the next verse).
A 1485 Latin Bible has nothing in Ps. cxxxix. Sion, K| 71, 4. 'God's Revenge.' Printed
London, 1688. Has ! of this shape, and ! in
italics, both thickened upwards. See p. 137.
Sion, K 87, 0. 'Epithetorum loan. Ravisii Op. Printed Basle, 1602. "Joan." occurs as abbreviation in title-page and on page of index in italic.
Ex meis libris. 'Taciti Opera.' Printed at Edinburgh ("Typ Acad"), 1805. Has no ecphoneme that I could find, though it has " " quotation marks and the modern punctuation.
My 'Dionysii De Antiq. Orat.,' printed in Latin and Greek, at the Clarendon Press, 1781, has the ecphoneme, though rarely. I certainly saw one.
The Times, 6 November, 1805, has several. F. W. G. FOAT, D.Lit. (To be continued.)
The following, from 4 Das Rituale von St. Florian aus dem zwolften Jahrhundert,' published at Freiburg by Herder, 1904, illustrates the remarks of DR. FOAT at 10 th S. ii. 301 :
" Als Interpunktionen gebraucht der Schreiber das Kolon, den Punkt, das Komma und das Frage- zeichen. Das Kolon, in der mittleren Hohe der Buchstaben stehend (). dientsowohl als Trennungs- zeichen ohne Riicksicht auf Satzteile als auch zur Abtrennung kiirzerer Satzteile. Der Punkt steht auf der Linie am Fusse der Buchstaben (.) und bezeichnet das Eude eines Satzes oder auch eine Abkiirzung, z. B. 7 (Per). Sehr oft wird das Komma angewendet, ein schrag von rechts nach links gerichtetes Ausrufungszeichen (/). Endlich gebraucht der Schreiber das Fragezeichen, ein Zirkum flex iiber dem Kolon 8 ."
FRED. G. ACKERLEY.
Is there not an omission in DR. FOAT'S explanation of the long s (10 th S. ii. 302, No. 9)? He says: "The tall form is the parent of our s of ordinary script," &c. Should not attention be called to the fact that in MSS. down to a comparatively recent period, when two s's came together, the first was written with a long and the second with a short s? W. S. B. H.
ROBERT GREENE'S PROSE WORKS.
(See 10 th S. iv. 1, 81, 162, 224, 483 ; v. 84, 202, 343, 424, 442, 463, 484.)
I CONCLUDE my illustrations of Marlowe's indebtedness to Primaudaye, and with them this series of articles on Greene's prose works.
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