No. 8. | Saturday, December 22, 1849. | Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
Sir,—In Dr. Maitland's able vindication of theDark Ages (p. 419. 1st ed.), he concludes his interestingextract from the scribe Otloh's accountof himself by saying:—"One would like to knowwhat books they were which Otlohnus thus multiplied;but this, perhaps, is now impossible." Ihave it accidentally in my power to identify twoat least of the number; and if it was his universalpractice to subscribe his name, as he doesin these instances, a search into the principal repositoriesof MSS. would, no doubt, give a largelist. A valuable MS. volume i