XII.—On some Waxed Tablets said to have been found at Cambridge

T. McKenny Hughes Esq.

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XII.—On some Waxed Tablets said to have been found at Cambridge

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T. McKenny Hughes Esq.

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Close to the inner margin of the King's Ditch at Cambridge, which until quite recently was the only ditch known to exist, excavations were lately made for the foundations of Messrs. Fosters' new bank. The ditch which runs along Hobson Street was only just touched, but there was at this spot a large quantity of sand and gravel. This had apparently been thrown out of the ditch, which here skirted the edge of an extensive gravel bed. No water passed through this dry subsoil from any side, and the area was soon built over, so that no rain fell into it. These were, therefore, conditions very favourable for the preservation of perishable materials

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Information: Archaeologia , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , 1897 , pp. 257 - 282

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^{page 257 note a} Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, viii. 41.

^{page 257 note b} See below, pp. 260, 261.

^{page 258 note a} Seneca, De Brevitate Vitœ, 13.

^{page 258 note b} By some mistake the number of leaves is given as two in the original notice of the discovery, probably by repetition of the word two from near the beginning of the same line.

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^{page 258 note e} Curculio, 409, 410, ed. Teubner.

^{page 258 note f} Wilthemius, Diptychon Leodiense, Append. de Pugillaribus Veterum.

^{page 258 note g} Epigrammata, bk. xiv. ep. 4.

^{page 258 note h} De Servis, Amst. 1674, p. 220; see also Saumaise, De Modo Usurarum, p. 460, Leyden, 1639; Wilthemius, Diptychon Leodiense, Append, de Pugillaribus Veterum; Schwarz, De Libris plicatilibus Veterum, Altorph, 1717; Walch, De Pugillaribus Veterum, Iena, 1756.

^{page 259 note a} See below, p. 264.

^{page 259 note b} Pp. 273, 274.

^{page 259 note c} Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, viii. 42.

^{page 259 note d} See below, p. 273.

^{page 259 note e} Du Méril, op. cit. 92; Ambr. Traversarii Epp. ed. Mehus, A.D. 1430, pp. 300, 534; Propertius, iii. 23, 8; Aurelius Prudentius peristephanon hym. ix. v. 49, p. 385 ed. Dressel.

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^{page 259 note g} The Memphis tablets.

^{page 259 note h} Ovid, Amorum, bk. i xi. 28.

^{page 259 note i} Dion Cassius, bk. lxvii. c. 15; bk. lxxii. c. 8.

^{page 259 note j} Martial, Epigr., bk. xiv. ep. 3.

^{page 259 note k} Plautus, Persa, v. 248.

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^{page 260 note c} Corpus Inscript. Latt. iii. 922, 938.

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^{page 261 note a} Du Méril, 112.

^{page 261 note b} Toppens, Bibl. Belg., ii. 721; Henr. a Pomerio.

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^{page 261 note f} Suetonius, s v. Caius, ch. xx.; s. v. Augustus, ch. lxxxv.

^{page 262 note a} Meursius, Phœdrus, appendix, 1615, Symposius; Riese, Anthol. Lat., I. No. 286.

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^{page 263 note b} Gesta, 709; Anzeiger der Vorzeit, vii. 38; Opera (ed. Giles), 263; Wattenbach, op. cit.

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^{page 263 note e} London, 1862, pp. 96, 439.

^{page 263 note f} Albericus, Trium Fontium; Chronicon, Ann. 878.

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^{page 263 note h} Life of Anselm, Book I. p. 6, ed. D. Gerberon.

^{page 264 note a} Canterbury Tales, “The Sompnoures Tale,” 1. 7324.

^{page 264 note b} Ib. 1. 7342.

^{page 264 note c} Du Méril, op. cit. 110

^{page 264 note d} Floire et Blanceflor, v. 251.

^{page 264 note e} MS. Sloane, ed. J. O. Halliwell (Percy Society), 22; ed. F. J. Furnival (E. E. T. S., O. S. No. 32), 316, 1. 535.

^{page 264 note f} Wattenbach, op. cit.; Du Méril, op. cit. 103.

^{page 264 note g} Mabillon, Librorum de Diplomatica Supplementum, 51.

^{page 265 note a} Wehrs, Vom Papier, 30; Du Méril, op. cit. 104.

^{page 265 note b} Juvenal, vii. 23; Catal. codd. Colon. 145

^{page 265 note c} Du Méril, op. cit. 102.

^{page 265 note d} Todd, Trans. R. Irish Acad., vol. xxi; Antiquities, p. 3.

^{page 265 note e} Acta Sanctorum, Life of St Mochtens, Aug. iii. 743.

^{page 265 note f} Du Cange, sub voce; Du Méril, op. cit. 99.

^{page 265 note g} Rumpf, Verhandlungen der Würzburger Philologen-Versammlung, 1889, s. 239–246.

^{page 265 note h} Du Méril, Etudes, 89, 506.

^{page 265 note i} Montfaucon, Pal. Grœc. 34; Thompson, Encycl. Brit, xviii. 143, sub voce Palæography; Homer, Iliad, vi. 169; Thesmophoriazusœ, 770–775; Pollux, Onomast. x. 57.

^{page 265 note k} Rangalié, Ant. Hell. I. s. 52, 80; Wattenbach, op. cit. 66.

^{page 265 note l} Martial, xiv. 4–6.

^{page 266 note a} Du Cange, sub voce; Vocab. reruin de a. 1433; Mone. Anz. viii. 251.

^{page 266 note b} Wright, Volume of Vocabularies, 1857, s. 210.

^{page 266 note c} Cicero, ad Fam., vii. 25; Seneca, Ep. 15.6; Propertius, I. ii. 22; Juvenal, ix. 36; and a scholiast quoted by Facciolati.

^{page 266 note d} Livres des Rois, 421; Wattenbach, 64.

^{page 266 note e} Jenenser, Cod. ott. Fris.; Thompson, Encl. Brit.; Seneca, De Clementia, bk. i. ch. xiv.; Plutarch's Lives, Caius Gracchus, ch. xiii. p. 1003, ed. Didot; Suetonius, Caius, ch. xxviii.; Suetonius.Julius Cœsar, ch. lxxxii.

^{page 266 note f} Du Méril, op. cit., 91, footnotes 4, 5.

^{page 266 note g} Hilarius of Aries; De Sancto Honorato, Oratin funebris, Migne, p. 1261.

^{page 266 note h} History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England, 439.

^{page 267 note a} Thompson, op. cit., 19, 24–5.

^{page 267 note b} Atti della R. Academia, ser. ii. vol. iii. pt. 3, 1875–6, pp. 150–230; Hermes, vol. xii. 1877, pp. 88–141; Overbeck, Pompeji, 4th ed. by Mau, 1884, pp. 489 et seq.; Zangmeister, Corpus Inscript. Latt. Pal. Soc. i. vol. iii. pl. 159.

^{page 267 note c} Du Méril, op. cit. 90, footnote 5.

^{page 267 note d} Ib. 93.

^{page 267 note e} Corpus Inscriptionum Latt. iii. 933.

^{page 267 note f} Du Méril, op. cit. 88, Ciparin, Archäologische Anzeiger, No. lxxxviii. 1856; Detlefsen, Sitzungs-berichte der K. Akad d. Wissenschaften Wien, t. xxiii. 636, 650; Erdy, Mém. de l'Acad. Hongroise, 1856, et De Tabulis ceratis in Transylvania repertis, Pesth, 1856; Massmann, Libellus aurarius, Lips. (1841).

^{page 267 note g} Du Méril, op. cit. 85; Massmann, Libellus aurarius, 4to, Leipsig (1841); Rechtswissenschaft, t. xii. cap. ii. pp. 173–219; Monumenti inediti, ix. (1872), t. 48.

^{page 267 note h} Du Méril, op. cit. 94; Cochet, Normandie Souterraine, 106, 107, 122, 132, 2nd ed.; Ladoucette, Hist, et Topog. des Hautes Alpes, 409, 412; Bonnin, Antiquités Gallo-Roniaines des Éburoviques, pl. xxxvi. figs. 5 and 6; see also the specimen found at Héronval, in the Museum of Cluny; Revue Archéologique, New Series, i. 328; Claude de Molinet, Cabinet de la Bibliothèque de Sainte Geneviève, 22; Cochet, Le tombeau de Childéric, 215; Cochet, Normandie Souterraine, 298, 350;Corrard de Breban, Mém. de la Soc. d'Agric. de l'Aube, 1853.

^{page 268 note a} Rockinger, Zum baier. Schriftwesen, s. 9; Wattenbach, op. cit.

^{page 268 note b} Seneca, Ep. lxxxvii.; Boniface, Ep. 75, Jafté; Du Méril, 94; Wattenbach, op. cit. 15.

^{page 268 note c} Mabillon, Librorum de Diplomatics Supplementum, p. 51.

^{page 268 note d} Einhard, Vita Kar. c. 25; Visio domi Karoli, Jaffé, Biblioth. iv. 701.

^{page 268 note e} Theodulf, Ad Carolum regern, v. 148.

^{page 268 note f} Ekkehard, Casus S. Galli., Mon. Germ. ii. 88; Wattenbach, op. cit. 53.

^{page 268 note g} Einhard, Vita Caroli Magni, ch. xxv.; Du Méril, op. cit. 99.

^{page 268 note h} Acta S8., Aug. iii. 229.

^{page 268 note i} Jaffé, Biblioth. i. 221.

^{page 268 note j} Wattenbach, Op. cit. p.

^{page 269 note a} Rockinger, Zum baier. Sckriftwesen, s. 9; Wattenbach, op. cit.

^{page 269 note b} Greg. Tur. vii. 30.

^{page 269 note c} Fredegar, Chron. c. 40; Wattenbach, op. cit. 55.

^{page 269 note d} Du Méril, p. 10; Wattenbach, op. cit. 58, 63; Th. Wright, The Latin poems commonly attributed to Walter Mapes (Camden Soc. 14), p. 130; “Pinax est manualis, ein hant-taphel,” Diefenbach, Gloss. 213; Pugillar is similarly explained, s. 227.

^{page 269 note e} De Institutione Oratoria, bk. I. ch. i. 27 and bk. I. ch. iii. par. 31; see also Horace, Sat. i. vi. 74; Juvenal, Sat. i. 1. 63 and Sat. xiv. 1. 191; Martial, Epig. xiv. 21.

^{page 269 note f} Canisius, Lectt. Ant. vi. 648; Wattenbach, op. cit. 57; Keil, Erlanger, Programm, 1868, s. 20.

^{page 269 note g} Mabillon, Librorum de Diplomatica supplementum, 51; Wattenbach, 62.

^{page 269 note h} St. Nilus (1005 A.D.), Acta SS., Sept. vii. 295; Mone, Anz.. vii. 505; Carmina Burana, e cod. Vindob., 3356, s. 251; Opera Hildeberti, ed. Beaugendre, p. 1623; Carmina Burana, p. 73; Eberhard of Bethune Laborinthus, iii. 292; French Romance of Floire at Blanceflor Édélestand du Méril; Orologe de la Mort, fourteenth century, Wattenbach, op. cit., 64; Busch, 1478; Du Méril, 507, ex Chron. Windeshem, ii. p. 587; Engelhardt, 1818 Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad von Landsberg, 1167, 1195, pl. 8.

^{page 269 note i} Zeitschrift des Vereins für Lüb. Gesch. ii. 556; cf. Anzeiger d. Germ. Mus. 1866, Sp. 388; Zeitschrift, iii. 8.

^{page 270 note a} Heerwagen, Zur Geschichte der Nürnberger Gelehrtenschulen, s. 6, in a programme of 1863.

^{page 270 note b} Martial, Epig., xiv. 7; Jerome, Epist., cvii; Opera, vol. i. col. 675, ed. Vallarsi; Isidori, Originum, lib. vi. ch. ix.

^{page 270 note c} S. Bonifacii, Vitœ a Willibaldo scriptœ. Ada Sanctorum, June, bk. i. p. 476.

^{page 270 note d} Surius, Vitœ Sanctorum, August, 156. Cf. Guibert de Nogent, De Vita Sua, bk. i. ch. 16; Opera, p. 477.

^{page 270 note e} Ernaldus, S. Abbatis [Bernardi] Vita, bk. ii. ch. 8; S. Bernardi, Opera, curis Mabillon, 4th ed. p. 2185.

^{page 270 note f} Eadmer, S. Anselmi Vita, lib. i. cap. 3; Ada Sanctorum, April, vol. ii. p. 872, col. 1.

^{page 270 note g} Wright, a volume of vocabularies, p. 118, De utensilibus.

^{page 270 note h} Baader, Anzeiger des Germ. Mus. xii. 101.

^{page 270 note i} Revue d'Alsace, 1872, s. 574; Wattenbach, op. cit. 73

^{page 271 note a} Vita Auct. Aimoins in Mab. ed. Paris, vi. i. 55; Glab. Rod. iii. 3.

^{page 271 note b} Mab. Annales Ordinis Sancti Benedicti, lib. 56, iv. 352; Du Méril, 106.

^{page 271 note c} M. G. SS. v. 269.

^{page 271 note d} Epist. ix. 3; Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 4^me Sér. i. 512, see also 502.

^{page 271 note e} Guib. Novig., de Vita Sua, i. 16; Opera (ed. d'Achery), 477; Wattenbach, op. cit. 60.

^{page 271 note f} Reiner, de Vita Sua, ii. 2, 6, B; Pez. Thes. Anecd. iv. 3, 34, 37.

^{page 271 note g} Mon. Germ., ss. xii. 580; Wattenbach, p. 66.

^{page 271 note h} Ordinarium, Rouen, ed. Jean Prevôt, 261.

^{page 272 note a} Du Méril, op. cit. 107; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (1855 and 1865), xxi. 284–392; Nouveau Tr., i. 468; Wattenbach, op. cit. 66.

^{page 272 note b} Les Anciennes Bibliothèques de Paris, par Alfred Franklin, i. 131, part of the Histoire Générale de Paris, 4to Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1867.

^{page 272 note c} J. Dubreul, Théâtre des Antiquités de Paris, 289.

^{page 272 note d} Tom. i. 468. Voyez encore une dissertation de l'abbé Le Bœuf dans les Mémoires de l'Académie des inscriptions, tom, xxxiii. de 1'edition in-12. There is another facsimile in the Musée des Archives, 140.

^{page 272 note e} Ibid. 169.

^{page 272 note f} Leprince, Essai historique sur la, bibliothéque du roi, 338; Voyez encore Jordan, Histoire d'un voyage littéraire, p. 72, et le Nouveau traité de diplomatique, i. 458.

^{page 272 note g} Op. cit. 109

^{page 273 note a} Moniage, v. 140, in B. de l'Arsenal, B.L.F. No. 185.

^{page 273 note b} Ed. of Peigné-Delacour, p. 79, col. 2.

^{page 273 note c} Eracles, ed. of Massmann, v. 1924.

^{page 273 note d} B. I. fonds de Sorbonne, No. 1422, p. 528, col. 2.

^{page 273 note e} B. I. fonds de Sorbonne, No. 7310³, p. 30, col. 1. v. 4

^{page 274 note a} B. I. fonds de Sorbonne, No. 972 (nouveau), fol. 49 vo.

^{page 274 note b} Bourquelot, Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, iv^me série, ii. 223.

^{page 274 note c} Vita Florentii, c. 23.

^{page 274 note d} Tabarrini, in Archivio Storico, Append, iii. 521–532.

^{page 274 note e} Entry I, 72, 88, 164.

^{page 274 note f} Rockinger, Zum Baier. Schriftwesen, s. 9.

^{page 274 note g} Du Méril, op. cit. 107.

^{page 274 note h} Du Méril, s. 108; Wattenbach, Anzeiger des Germanischen Museums, A.D. 1867, sp. 239 Cardinal Noris, Dissertatio de Hist. Synod; Bingham, Orig. Eccles., lib. xv. ch. 13, sec. 18; Moroni, Érudizione Storico-Ecclesiastica.

^{page 274 note i} Lalanne, Curiosités bibliogr. 18.

^{page 274 note k} Du Méril, op. cit. 96, 97.

^{page 275 note a} Zeitschrift des Harz-vereins, 1874, s. 59–85.

^{page 275 note b} Wattenbach, op. cit. 71; Hercynisches, Archiv. (Halle, 1805), s. 138, ff.; Schoenemann, Merkwürdigkeiten des Wolf. Bibl. I. Hundert, s. 61; Hansische Geschichtsbl., 1873, s. 6.

^{page 275 note c} Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Alterthum Schlesiens, ix. 95–100.

^{page 275 note d} Corssen, Professor W., Neue Mittheilungen des thür-sachs. Vereins (1864), x. 145–204.

^{page 275 note e} Ib. 359.

^{page 275 note f} Schirrmacher. Urkundenbuch der Stadt Liegnitz (1866), vii. ix.

^{page 275 note g} Pertz, Archiv, xi. 706.

^{page 275 note h} Wehrs (Vom Papier, Halle, 1789, s. 29–32).

^{page 275 note i} Hesse, Arnstadts Vorzeit und Gegenwart (Arnstadt, 1843); Serapeum, xxi. 357 to 359.

^{page 275 note k} Anzeiger der Germanischen Museums, xx. 79.

^{page 275 note l} Schilter, in the notes to his editions of Jacob v. Königshofen's Chronicle (1698), s. 441.

^{page 276 note a} Schmeller, see Dr. J. Sighart, Abhandlungen des Küniglich. bayer. Akademie (18C6), ix. 343–356; Rockinger, Zum baier. Schriftwesen, s. s. 8 and 9.

^{page 276 note b} Anzeiger, der Germ. Mus. ix. 95, x. 70; Homeyer, Hans und Hof-marken, s. 263; Du Méril op. cit. s. 113; Grätur Bragur, iii. 524; Petrus de Ludewig, Vita Justiniani, 185; Neue Mittheilungen des Thur.-Sachs. Vereins, ix. 444–460.

^{page 276 note c} Du Méril, op. cit. 112.

^{page 276 note d} Actt, iii. 2.

^{page 276 note e} Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions, 1753, vol. xx.

^{page 276 note f} Revue Archéologique, 1860, Nos. 7 and 8; Études sur quelqites points d'archéologie et d'histoire littéraire (Paris and Leipzig), 85–142.

^{page 276 note g} Lipsiae, 184.

^{page 276 note h} Serapeum, 1860, s. 353–377.

^{page 276 note i} Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter (2nd ed. S., Hirzel, Leipzig, 1875), 44–74.Google Scholar

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