Notes and Queries

Papers
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Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)2
An Unnoticed 1723 Edition of Edward Southwell’s Translation of Henry More’s Enchiridion Ethicum2
‘The Veil of Fiction’: Thomas Warton on Gower And Chaucer (1754)2
John Blanke’s Hat in the Westminster Tournament Roll2
The Book of Wisdom and the DÆGweorc in the Old English Exodus1
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: þo or þei Reconsidered1
E. B. Neill and Moby-Dick1
Hermione Lee, Tom Stoppard A Life1
The Identity of Robert Parke, Translator of Juan Gonzáles de Mendoza’s Historia de China (1585, 1588)1
Thomas Carlyle and the London Library: Three Unpublished Letters1
The Date and Authorship of the ‘Hecate Passages’ in Macbeth1
A Latin Reading for Quod in Medieval Scribal Attributions1
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1827–1830: A Supplement to the Union List1
Sindbad vs. Sinbad1
Identification of ‘Knighton Sally’ in Keats’s Copy of The Anatomy of Melancholy1
The New Waller Poem and ‘To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake’1
On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester1
Xenos and Xenia Within and Beyond the Phaeacian Allusive Frame of Paradise Lost1
New Light on Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence with Sarah Eliza (Cushing) Tuckerman1
BHL 2178: A New Source for Ælfric’s Life of Dionysius0
Manuscripts of Nicholas Trevet’s Annales Sex Regum Anglie and Continuatio0
A New Source of Inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s ‘Modern Novels’0
A Borrowing from Eadmer of Canterbury’s Liber de Excellentia Virginis Mariae in a Middle English Translation of the Meditationes Vitae Christi0
Unpublished Correspondence Regarding Frederick Burnaby’s Journey to Anatolia0
A Potential Inspiration for Dracula’s R. M. Renfield0
The Unidentifed Birgittine Borrowing in the Meditaciones Domini NostrI0
Did Norsemen Duel? A Note on Old Norse Hólmganga (With Excursus on Halda Skildi Fyrir and Einvígi)0
‘The Sun for Sorrow Will Not Show His Head’: Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Virgil0
The Two Thomas Tickells0
A Fifteenth-Century Antedating of the OED Entry for ‘Castile Soap, N.’0
Jane Ashley/Langley/Delahay (D.1611), Resident of Paris Garden, Southwark0
Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians0
John Galsworthy to Charles Masterman, 27 July 1909: An Uncollected Galsworthy Letter0
The Medieval Origins of the Worm of Conscience in Shakespeare’s Richard III0
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Henry James’s Preface to Rupert Brooke’s Letters from America0
Katharine Tynan as the Source of Lionel Johnson ‘Barstool’ Myth in Ezra Pound’s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)0
Kudrun and The Wife’s Lament0
The Origins of £: S: D0
‘I Feeling Mine Too Much’: A Textual Crux in Edward Herbert’s ‘Parted Souls’0
The Old Law Table and Arden of Feversham0
New Attestations of Two Proverbs from the Sixteenth Century0
An Echo of Manilius’S Astronomica in Abraham Cowley’s Davideis0
Cymbeline and Artistic Temptation in the ‘Aeolus’ and ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ Episodes of Ulysses0
An Alternative Interpretation of the Background of the Frontipiece to Walker’s Appeal0
A New Source for Gascoigne’s ‘A Devise of a Maske’0
The Hero in the Doorway: King Cynewulf of Wessex and His Analogues in Gesta Danorum0
John Ray on Bookwheels0
Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World’0
Dickens’s Reading of Jane Austen and the Influence of Persuasion on Oliver Twist0
Caesura and Syntax in Piers Plowman A.10.2100
A Musical Allusion in the Faerie Queene0
Eunapius’s Lives of Philosophers and Oratours as a Source in Biographies of Thomas Nashe and Francis Beaumont0
The Expression to Fanny About0
The Stylistic Unity of Arden of Faversham: Shakespeare, Thomas Kyd, and Pragmatic Markers0
Old English Þisses swa mÆg in the Deor refrain0
Earlier Evidence on the Use of the Terms ‘Mycology’, ‘Mycologist’, and ‘Mycological’0
The Elusive ‘Mr. P——’: Revd Thomas Powys (1737–1809), Contributor to the European Magazine, Identified0
Further Evidence of Subject-Type Effects on Verbal Morphology in Old Northumbrian0
George Meredith on ‘Killing One’s Darlings’0
A Peasant Lessee of Seigniorial Cattle, 13590
William Wycherley’s The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?0
The Laurence Nowell Enigma: The Enquiries of Anthony Wood0
A Conjecture for Piers Plowman A.12.150
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’0
The Limitations of Stylometry: Idiolect and the Authorship of Titus Andronicus0
OUP accepted manuscript0
As Drunk as a Mouse0
Corrigendum to: Chardin and Vesalius’ Inhuman Interiorities0
A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter0
‘In the Search of the Eastern Tongues’: John Donne’s Arabic Learning0
Latches in Shakespeare0
‘Satan is an Angel of Light:’ II Corinthians 11.14 and ‘Ocular Proof’ in Shakespeare0
An Unedited Version of the Medieval French Heraldic Oath0
An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–410
Eclipsed by Under Milk Wood: Henry Reed and the Italia Prize0
Leonard Woolf on Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka: The Reception of Lagerlöf in the English-Speaking World Part II0
Correction to: Sir Walter Scott to William Scott, 1 May 1826: An Unpublished Scott Letter0
Three Celebrity References in the Very Early Writings of Samuel Richardson0
Felbinger not the Author of De Doctrina Christiana, Currently Attributed to Milton0
Horace and Ovid in Byron’s Don Juan 6.17.80
Hekatompathia (1582) and Thomas Watson’s Edition of Petrarch0
Books Received0
The End of the Line for Recent Claims Regarding Lost Prose Copies of Piers Plowman0
The Knighting of Thomas North0
A Note Clarifying the Date of the Last Will and Testament of Richard FitzAlan, earl of Arundel (d. 1397)0
The Half-Line Ferhđ Gefēonde in Old English Poetry, With a Note on Absolute Constructions0
Thomas Kyd’s Verbal Borrowing from Tito Vespasiano Strozzi in The Spanish Tragedy0
Dryden, Rymer & The Interested Gods0
Relocating The Tempest in the Bengal Delta0
An Unpublished Response from Francis W. Newman to Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the Principles of Morality (1829)0
Re-Interpreting Thomas Edward Roberts’s The Discovery0
Shifting Heads to Solve a Crux in Comedy of Errors0
Martin Droeshout’s Mother0
Monarchs Related to Elizabeth in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Into Thin Air: Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Virgil0
Meter and Matter in Faerie Queene II.II.20
Stand in and be Counted0
Unnoted textual Witnesses in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
Joseph Haines and Tray the Dog0
‘Maimed, and Deformed’: Shakespeare’s First Folio and Beaumont and Fletcher’s Philaster0
Anti-Spenserian Amaranth In Milton’s Lycidas0
Thomas Urquhart and the Question of Non-Sense0
A New Source for Ælfric’s Supplementary Homily IV0
The Wife’s Lament and Diu Klage0
A Possible New Source for Shakespeare’s The Reign of King Edward III0
The Venom-Repelling Ability of Italians in Robert Greene’s Notable Discouery of Coosenage0
A Source for John Tanner in Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman0
The Old English Noun *gewændung0
Oscar Wilde’s Submission of Poems and The Happy Prince and Other Tales to Chatto & Windus0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1841–1845: A Supplement to the Union List0
Henry Fielding and Tom D’Urfey: A Missed Allusion0
‘He That No Good Can’, Again: Three Further Unrecorded Copies of a Middle English Proverb0
Correction0
Thomas Milles as the Main Direct Source of Henry Burnell’s Landgartha0
Thomas Ravenscroft: A Brief ‘Civil’ Discourse0
‘Our soul is like a kite’: A Poem Misattributed to Oscar Wilde0
Some Mislineations in Piers Plowman A: The End of the Line for Scribes and Editors0
Thomas Watson, Thomas Kyd, and the re-use of Ovid0
Pursuing the Identities of Sterne’s Subscribers Down Genealogy’s Garden Path0
What is the Use for Old English for-Verbs?0
‘Mi Minde Is Mukul’, the 102nd Gawainian Wheel0
Ralph Ellison’s Macbeth0
Gonzales Coques’s Portrait of a Married Couple in a Park: An Incorrect Identification of Margaret and William Cavendish0
Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield0
The Infernal Punishment of Livestock Thieves in an Anonymous Old English Homily and Redaction VI of the Visio Pauli0
The Paper of London, British Library, Royal Manuscript 18 B II0
‘Holding Forth’ in the Sixteenth Century0
Phineas and his Terms: A Crux that Wasn’t0
Notes on the Text of William of Palerne0
The Subject of John Gower’s Dicunt Scripture0
Leaute and the Dreamer: A Mispunctuated Dialogue in Piers Plowman C.12.22–40α0
Finding (or Not) An Educator for a Prince—On the Recent Discovery of a Missing Letter from Leonhard Euler0
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
Four Manuscript Pages of John Eliot’s Ortho-Epia Gallica0
Corrigendum to: Beowulf and the Southern Sun (Beowulf, 603b–06, 1965b–66a)0
A Source for Marvell’s ‘Garlands of Repose’?0
Dilige deum &c’: Acquired Meaning and the Quotations in Piers Plowman0
The Origins of ‘Hedonism’: A German Context and an Antedating0
Wallace Stevens’s ‘That Spaniard of the Rose’ Revisited0
A Note on Beowulf, lines 2460–2462A0
Chaucer’s Truth and Phillipps MS 11409: A Retraction0
Further Allusions to Marlowe in The Comedy of Errors0
Peace-minded Critics of Tennyson’s Maud0
‘The Limitations of Stylometry’: Unconscious Versus Conscious Use of Frequent Words0
Coleridge and the Marxbrothers: Coburn’s Annotation to Note Cn I 449 3.310
Identifying Milton’s “Genial Angel” as the Son of God: An Allusion to Genesis 2:22 in Paradise Lost IV.712-130
‘On Latmos’s Top’: Cynthia’s Sexuality in The Maid’s Tragedy0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1831–1835: A Supplement to the Union List0
Old English *Lēttan ‘To Gleam’ in the Translation of Gregory’s Dialogues0
The Stylized Hedera in Cambridge, University Library, Kk.3.180
The Function of Vocat in Late Medieval Multilingual Documents Produced in England0
Scottish Poet Maria Bell: Sister of ‘Sherlock Holmes’0
Mary Linwood’s The House of Camelot (1858): An Early Case of Russian Influence on the English Novel0
The Vernacular Name of Holstenius0
‘Out of My Lord Orrerys Play Being Sauls Tragedy’: New Extracts in Manuscript, and an Old Attribution0
Correction to: William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat: Some Further Light on Gregory Stremer0
Hawthorne’s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Possible Influence of Girolamo Savonarola in ‘Earth’s Holocaust’0
The Occasion of Jonson’s ‘Blackfriars Christening Entertainment’0
On the Punctuation of Juliana 114b0
‘On Poesy or Art’: A Poisoned Chalice?0
Is the Folger Chapbook’s Prose History A Source for Titus Andronicus?0
A Previously Undiscovered Manuscript Version of a Herrick Poem0
Genre and Relative Letter Frequencies in the First Folio0
William of Malmesbury and his Connections to the Anglo-Norman Royal Family: An Exploration of Friendship and Family Ties0
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
A Formerly Untraced Comment by ‘Coleridge’ in an Article by W. B. Yeats, and Its Origin in Coventry Patmore’s Writing0
New Life Records for Thomas Usk0
The Definite Article in Old English ‘Nicknames’0
A Further Echo of George Herbert in Edward Benlowes’ Poetry0
The Author of Origin of April-Day and Its Sources0
Sexual Freedom and New World Conquest in Francisco de Vitoria’s de Indis and John Donne’s ‘To his Mistress going to bed’0
No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?: Confirmation of John Hampson’s Book Thieving0
On the ‘Unmentionable Observations’ of Robert Hooke0
An Unpublished Letter from Edward Gibbon to Horace Walpole0
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ethnography of the Elves0
‘A Person Not Without Enemyes’: A New Defoe Letter and Colonel Thomas Colepeper0
A Half-Watt Light for Photography in Ezra Pound’s ‘Medallion’ (1920)0
Locrine and Robert Greene’s Dramatic Canon0
Some Notes on Thomas Garvine’s (1690–1766) Life in China0
Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1818–1820: A Supplement to the Union List0
Musty and Unbolted Grain in Coriolanus0
An Unrecognized Allusion to Marvell’s ‘To his Coy Mistress’?0
Correction to OED First Usage of ‘Killjoy’0
On ‘Srumfredevi’ in Shelley’s ‘The Triumph of Life’0
Othello Goes to Lisbon, 17650
From Zero to Zillion: Etymological Notes on Some Number Terms0
North or East: The Pilgrim Child’s Journey0
The Spanish Tragedy—Now in Five Acts!0
An Unrecorded Fragment of a Folding Almanac0
Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, Line 6460: What Gaimar did with the Books of the Welsh0
The Rubrics Planned for Piers Plowman in the Vernon Manuscript0
Sir Archibald Alison and The New English Dictionary0
The Castiglione Inscription in the Tower of London0
Fucfast, Flemings Daughter, and Sowters Dowghter: Some Sixteenth-Century Insults0
The Actors John Green (FL. 1606–1627), William Roe (C. 1591–1662), and A Pair of Gloves0
Horn Childe Lines 199 and 229: Þo or Þei0
The Sources of Order and Disorder 8.369–3820
The Use of Notae in the Copy of the Old English Herbarium in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 760
Notes on a Catholic Manuscript Compilation in Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Rawl. 107 D0
Letters Shedding Light on the Relationship Between Constance Naden and Madeline Daniell0
Motto of Katherine Parr0
Two Notes on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: l. 34 ‘Lel Letteres’ and l. 193 ‘Dok’0
The Politics of Prophecy in Mum and the Sothsegger0
The Devil of the Vault and John Hanson’s Time is a Turncoat0
The Influence of Pearl on Thom Gunn’s ‘Lament’0
The Etymology of Freawaru’s Name0
The Occasion of John Gower’s Unanimes Esse0
John Wiltshire, Frances Burney and the Doctors: Patient Narratives Then and Now0
An Unnoticed Oration in Praise of Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester0
Fragments of the Middle English Prose Brut in the Raynham Archives0
Jonah’s Clear Voice: A Jewish/Christian Exegetical Motif in Patience0
The Wives of the Actor Robert Reynolds (FL. 1616—Early 1640s)0
A Note on the Hogarth Press (1917–21)0
Jib as a Verb: An Earlier Use and Disputed Etymologies0
Life-Records of the English Antiquary John Fenn0
Lewis Carroll and ‘Dinah’: An Unnoted Joke in the Oxford Pamphlets0
William Baldwin’s Source for the Tales of Irish Shape-Shifting in Beware the Cat: A New Consideration0
Unnoted Sources in Oscar Wilde’s Vera0
Was Revd Thomas Nichols the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘T.N.’, 1821–1828?0
Helena and Bangor Martyrs in Spenser’s British Chronicle0
Augustine and Enjambment: A source for Hopkins’s term ‘rove over’0
The Actor George Bentley at Rotterdam in 16460
A Fragmentary Version of a Harley Lyric0
‘Our Ingenious Correspondent at Dublin’: Was Andrew Caldwell the Gentleman’s Magazine’s ‘Jack Prancer’, et al., Architectural Contributor, 1784–1800?0
Letter from William Davison to Sir Christopher Hatton0
Sorrow Renewed: The Wanderer and Psalm 380
New Perspectives on Thomas Kyd’s Restored Canon0
Three 17th-Century Letters Clarify the Textual History of Scipio Lentulus’ History of the Waldensians0
Semantic Overlapping Between Latin and Old English Verbs of Seeing in Interlinear Glosses0
An Allusion to Titus Andronicus in Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece0
Two Undiscovered Middle English Lyrics in London, British Library, Additional MS 468460
A New Source for Philip Massinger’s The Great Duke of Florence (1627)0
Sir Peter Carew as the Author of A Copye of a Letter (1549) Concerning the Western Rebellion0
An Early Reference to Penelope Devereux as ‘Stella’0
‘Let It Come Down’: On Banquo's Murder in Macbeth0
The Relationship of Belshazzar and Nebuchadnezzar in Pulter’s ‘Vain Herostratus’0
Magic Chant in the ‘Old Man’s Lament’: A Reconsideration of Beowulf 2460B–2461A0
Francis Williams and the Question of Translation0
Isaac Newton, A Radical Whig?0
The Frontispiece Epigraphs of Thomas Randolph’s Poems (1640): Martial, Horace, and Sidronius Hosschius0
Richard Bovet’s PandæMonuim (1684) as Early Political Engagement With Paradise Lost0
An Unknown Poem by Edmund Waller0
Hiding in Plain (Digital) Sight: A Previously Unnoticed Copy of A Middle English Testamentary Lyric0
A Letter for Thomas Hoccleve?0
Old English Gǣsil in the Runic Inscription from King’s Somborne0
OE Don, Macian, and Wyrcan: A Linguistic Division of Labour0
Attribution of Authorship: ‘Some Modern Tendencies in English Art’ in the Apollinaire Collection0
Fame, Civic Pageantry, and the Standard in Cheapside0
Possible Sources for Thomas Day’s Depictions of the Enslaved0
Edmund Spenser and Hegesias of Cyrene: A Possible Source for Despair in the Ninth Canto of Book One of The Faerie Queene0
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