In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dr Helen Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >ThanksLeofranc, I finally understand the reference in the Sword in the >Stone where Madame Mim had a double first from - what was it Dom Daniel >under the sea? By my day a double first was in Mods and Greats, i.e. langauge and literature (after five terms) and history and philosophy (after another seven, or twelve in all). So still now, except that the separation is less rigid.
A few more comments before I depart these shores for musicological conferences in the USA; at one I am giving a paper on the influence of humanism on the language of Latin music treatises. Best wishes, Leofranc `165v-6v: Ars rhetorica Clodiani statibus' Thus? `Stokes and Strachan note the identification by Stern of mac Cialláin with a deacon Niall mac Giallain (Fiallain, Iallain) a reputed visionary who died in 854/8.' Non-Celticists deserve reassurance that the same man can have so many alternative consonants. `For its relationship to other manuscripts see Waldrop (1934). Waldrop (1934, 212) suggests'. Please let it be 'see Waldrop (1934), who suggests (212)'. `the names of Irish scholars and the passages they are apparently written against - usually identifiable by the appearance of enlarged letters in the text in a general study of all the Irish names and a close study of the more than seventy references to John Scottus.' Second dash needed after `text'. `Ellergy to Macenas': Ellery McQueen? `(Lindsay (1915), p. 234)'. Thus within a text of 1934? `Wolfenbüttel, Aug.20 7.10 [W] for Sevius [g] for Vergil' Presumably Servius not Sevius Nicanor. `Discussion: A direct copy of V made before its losses Mynor's [g] a close copy of [P] Vat.. Pal. lat 1631 in Lorsch in the ninth century' Mynors's, but the rest is a mite incoherent. *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
