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 8*8. viii. NOV. 9, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1901.

CONTENTS. -No. 202.

NOTES :-Heuskarian Rarity, 377 Order of St. Michael and St. George, 378 Merry Tales, 380 Cartwright in Geneva, 382 Thackeray's Early Writings Breadcrumbs and the Devil Canon "Carter of Clewer, 383.

QUERIES : Sale of Pamphlets Staunton Cromwellian Forfeitures, 383 Green Crise or Cryse French Genea- logy Buckworth : Hyde : Bygo Macaulay's Essays Lamb's ' Angel Help ' Cuckland Architect's Name Wanted Docklow Gornall=Troughton Private Print- ing Press, 384 National Covenant of 1638 Insel Runo Capt. Gordon at Sebastopol " Second Chamber" " Stretwarde "Clock and Watch Figures Greek Spear in Left Hand Motto on Venetian Coin ' ' Man of honour " Brown of Arlesey Mgr. Erskine, 385 Dorothy Cecil, 38*5.

REPLIES :-Merlin, 386 Arms of Canada Master of the Musick Fowke of Drogheda, 387 Bruce and Burns "Byron's tomb" 'Hymns Ancient and Modern,' 388 Marshalsea and King's Bench Prisoners Silversmith's Signature " Obelisk," 389" Riding the marches," 390 Poem Wanted, 391 Bishops' Ornaments Back-forma- tions Kipling's 'Vampire' Register of Broadwood- Widger Leigh in Lancashire Peche" Family, 392 Ancient Chair Designs of Early Printers, 393 Chalice as Race Cup "Ask nothing more of me, Sweet" Stone Pulpit, 394.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-Kristeller'8 ' Mantegna '-Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

AN HEUSKARIAN RARITY IN THE BOD- LEIAN LIBRARY.

ONE effect of the lamented transportation to the Newberry Library in Chicago of the linguistic collection of the late Prince L. L. Buonaparte, which contained some unique copies of old and therefore precious Baskish* or Heuskarian books, is that the value of all rare books in that language which remain in Europe has risen. The Bodleian Library turns out to possess one of these rarities, of which no mention has hitherto been made in the bibliographies. On my informing the librarian of the University of Oxford that M. Julien Vinson had just published a new edition of the three Baskish 'Offices of the Virgin Mother,' by 0. Harismendi (de- scribed on p. 108, and under the number 27 c, in his ' Bibliographie Basque' of 1891, and on p. 551 of his Supplement of 1898), from an incomplete copy, supposed to be unique, in the collection of Prince L. L. Buonaparte,

English Bascophile of importance, spelt the name of the Heuskarian tongue Basquish, on the analogy of Finnish, Turkish, Polish, fee. This leaves the term Basque or Bask as the name of the people possessing that language. But to avoid the sound of quish, as in " vanquish," it were well to spell the word Baskish.
 * Sir Thomas Browne, of Norwich, the first

Mr. E. W. B. Nicholson at once said, " I will see if we have not a copy." The result was that the Bodleian is richer than it was supposed. Under the shelf-mark " Marescha 439 " there is a perfect, clean copy, in a good old parchment cover, of the little volume in question. By its means the authorities of the Newberry Library in Chicago will be able to obtain copies of the part that is missing in the Buonapartean specimen. M. Vinson's description being necessarily imperfect, the following complementary details concerning the book as found in the Bodleian will be of interest to Baskologists. Its title is

"Ama | Virginaren | Hirvr ] Officioac. | Latinean becala escaraz. | Bigarren liburua. | Pontu pre- mienez. | Presuna deboten othoitcera Saran | C. Harismendi Apecac gucia | hunela moldatua, eta Doctorez | aprobatua. | Bordelen, | G. de la Coyrt, Imprimat- | caillea baithan. 1660. | Congiarequin."

That is to say :

" The Three Offices of the Virgin Mary. In Baskish as they are in Latin. The Second Book. With the most necessary points for the praying of devout persons, formed the whole of it thus in Sara by C. Harismendi the Priest, and approved of the Doctors. In Bordeaux, in the house of G. de la Court, the Printer, 1660. With the Permission (coiig d'imprimer)."

At the left-hand lower corner of the title- page the Bodleian mark " Mar 439 " occurs, and on the other side of it, below an engraving of the Crucifixion signed "I D," there is the circular stamp "Bibliotheca Bodleiana." At the other end of the book, on the inside of the cover, some one has written the twenty- two letters of the Heuskarian alphabet, headed by a +. The alphabet is known in Baskish as croasa or kruasa, i.e., la croix, from the fact of the alphabet being so printed in the hornbooks or their equivalents, a fact which makes one think of ** Christ- cross row " in English. The book is numbered all through its pages, of which it contains 236. On pp. 2 and 3, immediately following the verso of the title-page, there is "Andre Dena Mariari Dedicainoa," i.e., " The Dedi- cation to Saint Mary Lady," ending with the exclamation "May Jesus live, and Mary! " On p. 5 there is " The approbation of my Lord the Bishop," ending " Datum Baionse anno Domini 1659, die vero 27 Feb- ruarii. loannes Episcopus Baionensis." This bishop was Jean d'Olce. P. 6 contains the "Aprobacinoa" of 27 Feb., 1658, signed 41 1. de Moleres Maria Magdalena Paravisvco Priorea eta Curaideco [sic] erretora." That is, " J. de Moleres, Prior of the Paradise (or Parvise?) of Mary Magdalene and Hector of Zuraide." On p. 7 there is " Aprobacinoa,' signed at Ciburu (i.e., Zubiburu = Ciboure)i