Turon._, l. vii. c. 35.
And after Brunichild had fallen into the hands of Chlotair, she was, before
her death, conducted through the army on a camel:--
"Jubetque eam _camelum_ per omnem exercitum sedentem
perducere."--_Fredegarius_, c. 42.
By what people were camels first brought into Gaul? By the Romans; by the
Visigoths; or by the Franks themselves?
R.J.K.
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QUERIES.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES.
(_Continued from page 325._)
(13.) Is it not a grievous and calumnious charge against the principal
libraries of England, Germany, and France, that not one of them contains a
copy of the _Florentine Pandects_, in three folio {422} volumes,
"magnifice, ac pereleganter, perque accurate impressis," as Fabricius
speaks? (_Bibl. Graec._ xii: 363.) This statement, which may be but a libel,
is found in Tilgner (_Nov. lib. rar. Collect._ Fascic. iv. 710.), Schelhorn
(_Amaen. Lit._ iii. 428.), Vogt (_Catal._ p. 562. Hamb. 1738), and Solger
(_Biblioth._ i 163.). According to the last writer, the edition in
question, Florent. 1553, (for a fac-simile of the letters of the original
MS. see Mabillon's _Iter Italicum_, p. 183.) is,--"splendidissima, et
stupendae raritatis, quae in tanta est apud Eruditos aestimatione ut pro 100
Imperialibus saepius divendita fuerit.
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