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Notes
This series of notes was undertaken in the hope of arousing more general interest in manuscript notes found in printed books than has hitherto been the case. Here one may still come upon "discoveries" which have escaped the notice of earlier students. The previous numbers have appeared as follows: (I) Modern Language Notes, LIII (1938), 245-249; (II) Isis, XXXIII (1942), 609-620; (III) Medievalia et Humanistica, IV (1946), 107-110; (IV) Traditio, IV (1946), 429-435; (V) Scriptorium, VI (1952), 274-276; (VI) To appear in Anglia; (VII) Renaissance News, VII (1954), 95-97.
Below this is written the distich: Bis sex millenos versus in codice scriptos Sed terquinque minus continet ouidius.
For further details, see Seymour de Ricci, English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts (Cambridge, 1930), p. 25, and Emile Offenbacher, "La bibliothèque de Wilibald Pirckheimer," La Bibliofilia, XL (1938), 241-263.
On Wilibald, compare the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, XXVI (1888), 810-817, and Arnold Reimann, Die älteren Pirckheimer (Leipzig, 1944), passim.
Mentioned repeatedly by Reimann, this Sebald is the only one noted by Emil Reicke, Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (München, 1940).
Reimann, p. 241, cites the entry in full. I am most obliged to Mr. T. J. Brown, of the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, for a new and full transcript of this entry in the Arundel manuscript.
On this point, compare Frederick R. Goff, "The Dates in Certain German Incunabula," PBSA, XXXIV (1940), 17-67 (esp. p. 18).
Reicke, p. 38; Reimann, p. 112. The date of the death of Sebald's mother is given by Reimann, p. 132, note 4.
No date for Sebald's death is given by Reimann ("Er ist wohl jung gestorben", p. 142, n. 1) or by Reicke ("er starb jung, wenn auch schon über zehn Jahre alt," p. 289).
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