Notes and Queries

Papers
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An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy2
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters2
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll2
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick2
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
A New Jacopo Corbinelli’s Annotated Printed Book1
Antedating (in) the Oxford English Dictionary1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
The New Waller Poem and ‘To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake’1
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
A Note on Lord Byron’s Visits to William and Caroline Herschel: A Reply1
Schubert’s ‘Adieu’ in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda1
The Book of Wisdom and the Dægweorc in the Old English Exodus1
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman1
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost1
Shakespeare’s Will, Lambswool, and Puck’s Joke1
New Insight on the Rape Accusation Against Thomas Culpeper, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
Possible Sources for Thomas Day’s Depictions of the Enslaved0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
Correction0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
Unpublished Correspondence Regarding Frederick Burnaby’s Journey to Anatolia0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
Antedatings of the OED Entry For ‘Keplerian, adj.’0
Francis Williams and the Question of Translation0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration0
From Zero to Zillion: Etymological Notes on Some Number Terms0
‘A Person not without Enemyes’: A New Defoe Letter and Colonel Thomas Colepeper0
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name0
A Fragmentary Version of a Harley Lyric0
Horace and Ovid in Byron’s Don Juan 6.17.80
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
Sir Archibald Alison and The New English Dictionary0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
On the history of ‘Spoil-Sport’, with oed first usage corrections0
Edmund Spenser and Hegesias of Cyrene: A Possible Source for Despair in the Ninth Canto of Book One of The Faerie Queene0
A Possible Source for the Term Mental Sight in John Milton’s Paradise Lost 11.418 in Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed I: 40
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’?0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
Caesura and Syntax in Piers Plowman A.10.2100
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
Dilige Deum &C’: Acquired Meaning and the Quotations in Piers Plowman0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
THE FAERIE QUEENE III.XII.10: BORROWINGS FROM IL LIBRO DEL CORTEGIANO, AND AN EMENDATION0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
‘Mi Minde Is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
A Manuscript of Swinburne’s ‘The Garden of Proserpine’0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice?0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
A Fragment of an Unpublished Letter from Voltaire to Richard Rolt0
Latches in Shakespeare0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
Earlier Evidence on the Use of the Terms ‘Mycology’, ‘Mycologist’, and ‘Mycological’0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
The Subject of John Gower’s Dicunt Scripture0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
Meter and Matter in Faerie Queene II.II.20
‘Beauties Ingredients’: Edward Herbert’s Allusion to Donne in ‘Elegy Over a Tomb’0
Re-Interpreting Thomas Edward Roberts’s The Discovery0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
Phineas and his Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
Evidence of Dictation in the Manuscript of Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Burse0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
An Authorship Misattribution in the George Eliot Archive0
Thomas Milles as the Main Direct Source of Henry Burnell’s Landgartha0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
An Echo of Manilius’S Astronomica in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
An Unnoticed 1675 Sermon By John Tillotson Against The Earl Of Rochester’s Satyr Against Reason and Mankind0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
Fucfast, Flemings Daughter, and Sowters Dowghter: Some Sixteenth-Century Insults0
A Note on the Hogarth Press (1917–21)0
Letter from William Davison to Sir Christopher Hatton0
A Note Clarifying the Date of the Last Will and Testament of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel (d. 1397)0
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier D’Argenville and the “Natural History of Shells” Series in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1755–1759: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Peace-Minded Critics of Tennyson’s Maud0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
Jane Ashley/Langley/Delahay (D.1611), Resident of Paris Garden, Southwark0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and l. 193 ‘Dok’0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Function of Vocat in Late Medieval Multilingual Documents Produced in England0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
Nancy Pearn’s Offer Letter from Curtis Brown, 26 June 1922: The Beginning of the ‘Queen of the Magazines and Newspapers’0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
A Source for Marvell’s ‘Garlands of Repose’?0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
New Perspectives on Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon0
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
Martin Droeshout’s Mother0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
The Franklin’s Tale and The Tempest Again0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
A Reinterpreted Source for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck0
The Expression to Fanny About0
Sir Peter Carew as the Author of A Copye of a Letter (1549) Concerning the Western Rebellion0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
North or East: The Pilgrim Child’s Journey0
‘THESE ARE TERRIBLE TIMES’: NEW EVIDENCE OF THE PUBLISHERS’ CRASH OF 1826 IN THE UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE OF WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND ALEXANDER BLACKWOOD0
Hiding in Plain (Digital) Sight: A Previously Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Testamentary Lyric0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors0
Sarah Scott and Elizabeth Montagu’S Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769): New Letters0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
Stand in and be Counted0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘That Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
Fragments of the Middle English Prose Brut in the Raynham Archives0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
Coleridge and the Marxbrothers: Coburn’s Annotation to Note CN I 449 3.310
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Wuthering Heights’ Abundant Italics0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818–1820: A Supplement to the Union List0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
The Actors John Green (fl. 1606–1627), William Roe (c. 1591–1662), and A Pair of Gloves0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
A Lydgate Phantom No More: An Unnoticed Copy of a Middle English Poem in the Chancery Miscellanea0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
OE Don, Macian, and Wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
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