Notes and Queries

Papers
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An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
Sources of Photographs in Jack London’s The People of the Abyss2
Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)2
John Masefield2
The Book of Wisdom and the DÆGweorc in the Old English Exodus1
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick1
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester1
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
Sindbad vs. Sinbad1
Winston Churchill and ‘Ye men of valour’: Sources and Corrections1
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
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
Sterne, Trollope, and Temptation1
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll1
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)1
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy1
G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere1
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life1
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
The Function of Vocat in Late Medieval Multilingual Documents Produced in England0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
Thomas Milles as the Main Direct Source of Henry Burnell’s Landgartha0
A Source for Marvell’s ‘Garlands of Repose’?0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’?0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
An Early Vernacular Annal on the First Crusade from Christ Church, Canterbury0
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and l. 193 ‘Dok’0
Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: A New Source for ‘Directive’0
Correction0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
The Subject of John Gower’s Dicunt Scripture0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Cant in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild0
Keats, Kean, and Othello0
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
Motto of Katherine Parr0
Edmund Spenser and Hegesias of Cyrene: A Possible Source for Despair in the Ninth Canto of Book One of The Faerie Queene0
‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice?0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
Possible Sources for Thomas Day’s Depictions of the Enslaved0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
Stand in and be Counted0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
Matthew Arnold’s Bokhara0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
An Echo of Manilius’S Astronomica in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
Two Versions of Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow, or the Nature of the Revision0
Coleridge and the Marxbrothers: Coburn’s Annotation to Note Cn I 449 3.310
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
OUP accepted manuscript0
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
Lewis Carroll and ‘Dinah’: An Unnoted Joke in the Oxford Pamphlets0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
The Expression to Fanny About0
‘Grandeza en la humildad’: The Further Story of Hopkins’s ‘In Honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez’0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘That Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
New Perspectives on Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon0
Latches in Shakespeare0
Phineas and his Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
A Critique of Household Words (1852): The Isthmus of Panama0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
Stephen Hawes and the Death of Henry VII0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
Thomas Ravenscroft: A Brief ‘Civil’ Discourse0
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
Earlier Evidence on the Use of the Terms ‘Mycology’, ‘Mycologist’, and ‘Mycological’0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818–1820: A Supplement to the Union List0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
The Actors John Green (FL. 1606–1627), William Roe (C. 1591–1662), and A Pair of Gloves0
George Aitken’s Genealogy of Dr John Arbuthnot0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Jane Ashley/Langley/Delahay (D.1611), Resident of Paris Garden, Southwark0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?0
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
Books Received0
Meter and Matter in Faerie Queene II.II.20
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
OE Don, Macian, and Wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
North or East: The Pilgrim Child’s Journey0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
A Possible Allusion to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147 in East Coker IV0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
Sir Archibald Alison and The New English Dictionary0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
‘The Flitting Phantoms of Iniquity’: A Spenserian Source for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Fancy’s Show Box: A Morality’ in the Ninth Canto of Book Two of The Faerie Queene0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
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
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
Corrigendum to: Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
A Note on the Hogarth Press (1917–21)0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
The Influence of Pearl on Thom Gunn’s ‘Lament’0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
The Origins of £: S: D0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
Fucfast, Flemings Daughter, and Sowters Dowghter: Some Sixteenth-Century Insults0
On Carrier-Pigeons and the Electric Telegraph: An Elusive Note in Two George Eliot Notebooks0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
Peace-minded Critics of Tennyson’s Maud0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
The ‘[H]aterell’ as Blind-Fold in the York Pageant of ‘Christ’s Trial Before Herod’0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
A Pun On ‘Desultory’ in ‘The Ring of Time’0
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
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
Hiding in Plain (Digital) Sight: A Previously Unnoticed Copy of A Middle English Testamentary Lyric0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920)0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
Martin Droeshout’s Mother0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
Re-Interpreting Thomas Edward Roberts’s The Discovery0
‘Mi Minde Is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
Unpublished Correspondence Regarding Frederick Burnaby’s Journey to Anatolia0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
From Zero to Zillion: Etymological Notes on Some Number Terms0
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
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