See also:

• SIR

SIR See also:

• FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898)

FREDERIC See also:

• SIR FREDERIC MADDEN (1801-1873)

MADDEN (1801-1873)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English palaeographer, the son of an officer of Irish extraction, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PORTSMOUTH
• PORTSMOUTH, EARLS OF
• PORTSMOUTH, LOUISE DE

Portsmouth on the 16th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1801 . From his earliest years he displayed a strong See also:

• BENT
• BENT (E1. BENI)
• BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852–1897)

bent to linguistic and antiquarian studies . In 1826 he was engaged by the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum to assist in the preparation of the classified See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of printed books then contemplated, and in 1828 he became assistant keeper of See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts . In 1833 he was knighted, and in 1837 succeeded See also:

• JOSIAH (Heb. yo' shiyydhu, perhaps " Yah [weh] supports ")

Josiah Forshall as keeper of manuscripts . He was not entirely successful in this See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office, partly owing to want of See also:

• HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony with his colleagues; he retired in 1866 . He edited for the See also:

• ROXBURGHE, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Roxburghe See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club Havelok the Dane (1828), discovered by himself among the Laudian See also:

• MSS

MSS. in the Bodleian, See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William and the See also:

• WERWOLF (from A.S. wer; cf. Lat. vir, man; and wolf; or, according to a later suggestion, from O.H.G. weri, wear, i.e. wearer of the wolf-skin)

Werwolf (1832) and the old English versions of the Gesta Romanorum (1838) . In 1839 he edited the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient metrical romances of Syr Gawayne for the See also:

• BANNATYNE, GEORGE (1545—? 1608)

Bannatyne Club, and in 1847 See also:

• LAYAMON

Layamon's See also:

• BRUT, BRUTE

Brut, with a See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation, for the Society of Antiquaries . In 185o the magnificent edition, in parallel columns, of what are known as the " Wycliffite " versions of the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, from the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original MSS., upon which he and his coadjutor, Forshall, had been engaged for twenty years, was published by the university of See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford . In 1866-1869 he edited the Historia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor of See also:

• MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF ST
• MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
• MATTHEW, TOBIAS

Matthew See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris for the Rolls See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Series . In 1833 he wrote the See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856– )
• SHAW, HENRY WHEELER (1818–1885)
• SHAW, LEMUEL (1781–1861)
• SHAW, RICHARD NORMAN (1831– )

Shaw's Illuminated Ornaments of the See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle Ages; and in 185o edited the English translation of See also:

• SILVESTRE, PAUL ARMAND (1837-1901)

Silvestre's Paleographie universelle . He died on the 8th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1873, bequeathing his See also:

• JOURNALS

journals and other private papers to the Bodleian Library, where they were to remain unopened until 1920 . See also:

• MADDEN, SIR FREDERIC (1801-1873)

Madden was perhaps the first palaeographer of his See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day .

He was an acute as well as a laborious See also:

• ANTIQUARY

antiquary, but his See also:

• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance of See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German prevented his ranking high as a philologist, although he paid much See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early dialectical forms of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and English .