MISCELLANEOUS NOTES cont. PAGE LAWRENCE, W. J., Doors and Curtains in Restoration Theatres 414 LAWRENCE, W. J., The King's Players at Court in 1610 89 MCNABB, VINCENT, Further Light on the 'Ancren Riwle' 406 304 MONTGOMERY, MARSHALL, Gerfalcon' 421 POPE, MILDRED K., The so-called 'Irrational' Negative in Anglo-Norman 421 ROLLINS, HYDER E., 'King Lear' and the Ballad of 'John Careless' 87 303 . SMITH, G. C. MOORE, The Use of an Unstressed Extra-metrical Syllable 300 SOMMER, H. OSKAR, The Sloane Manuscript 2936 (British Museum) TOYNBEE, PAGET, An Alleged Note by Boccaccio on 'Inferno,' xix. 13–21 WILSON, J. DOVER, Dramatic and Bibliographical Problems in ‘Hamlet' 163 409 304 Allen, Hope E., The Origin of the Ancren Riwle (G. G. Coulton). Aucassin et Nicolete, ed by F. W. Bourdillon (E. G. R. Waters) Clark, B. H., European Theories of Drama (H. B. Charlton) Constant, B., Adolphe, ed. par G. Rudler (J. G. Robertson) Cross, W. L., The History of Henry Fielding (J. Paul de Castro) . Ehrismann, G., Geschichte der althochdeutschen Literatur (James M. REVIEWS cont. Levi, A., Le palatali piemontesi (C. Foligno). Luquiens, F. B., Introduction to Old French Phonology and Morphology PAGE 331 191 Notcutt, H. C., An Interpretation of Keats' Endymion (O. Elton) Østerberg, V., Studier over Hamlet-Teksterne, I (J. Dover Wilson) Pingaud, L., La jeunesse de Ch. Nodier (F. Page). Redin, M., Studies of Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English Robertson, J. M., The Problem of 'Hamlet' (J. Dover Wilson) Shafer, R., The English Ode to 1660 (C. J. Battersby) Stoll, E. E., Hamlet: An Historical and Comparative Study (J. Dover Stonyhurst Pageants, The, ed. by Carleton Brown (W. W. Greg) Viglione, F., L'Algarotti e l'Inghilterra (L. Collison-Morley). Vincent, L., Le Berry dans l'oeuvre de G. Sand; La Langue et le Style rustiques de G. Sand; G. Sand et l'Amour; G. Sand et le Berry Von dem jungesten tage, ed. by L. A. Willoughby (W. E. Collinson) Wandrey, C., Theodor Fontane (James M. Clark) . 453 Quiller-Couch, Sir A., Studies in Literature: Shakespeare's Workman- 101 434 332 179 434 Wells, J. E., First Supplement to A Manual of Writings in Middle Whitford, R. C., Mad. de Staël's Literary Reputation in England. VOLUME XV JANUARY, 1920 NUMBER 1 STANFORD & BLADA THE LINCOLN FRAGMENT OF THE O.E. VERSION WANLEY (Catalogue, p. 305) gives his friend Dr Tanner of Norwich as his authority for the statement that there were certain fragments of the Old English Version of the Heptateuch in the library of Lincoln Cathedral. Until recently all trace of these fragments seems to have been lost. In 1898 Dr Frank Chase, an American scholar, was unsuccessful in a personal search for them in the cathedral library'. Their rediscovery is due to Rev. R. M. Woolley, who has been engaged in cataloguing the library of Lincoln Cathedral; and it is thanks to his kindness and courtesy that I am able to reproduce them here. The fragments, or, more correctly, fragment (for it is a continuous portion) consists of two leaves (Lincoln MS. 295. 2) containing an extract from the book of Numbers, beginning with ch. IX, 1 and ending with ch. XVI, 2. The version corresponds exactly, apart from merely phonological variations, with that contained in MS. Bodley, Laud Misc. 509, which is the source of Thwaites' text (1698) and of Grein's text which is a reprint of Thwaites'. The fragment is written in a fine, regular, eleventh century hand, and can hardly be dated later than about the third quarter of the eleventh century. The language is pure Late West Saxon, and there are only a few peculiarities requiring comment. Among these may be noted : (1) for W.S. eo in wep (=W.S. weop) XI, 10, wepan (= W.S. (2) -an frequently replaces -on in the pret. pl.: sudan, weopan, (3) The spelling sælost (= W.S. sēlost) occurs in X, 32. The spelling ngc for ng occurs in pinge, XI, 6, and gemengced, XII, 18. (4) Medial -ig- often loses its g: sarie, winberien, hunie, meniu etc. (5) Spræce, XI, 25, is a scribal error for spræc, and the same explanation probably applies to wat, XII, 9, for the regular gewat. 1 See F. Chase, Herrig's Archiv, vol. c (1898), pp. 241 ff. M. L. R. XV. 1 |