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Three Manuscript Notes on the Emperor Nerva

Manuscripts of Suetonius' De vita caesarum occasionally include notes referring to Nerva, the emperor who succeeded Domitian, the last of those Caesars. Of these notes, three match almost exactly. This annotation examines the potential sources of those notes. They include not just facts about Nerva but a reference to the Apostle John, which suggests the combination of classical and post classical sources in the exemplar of these three notes.

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From First-Person to Third-person Narrative, and then to Hakka Ballad: From “Tang Xuan shouji” (Tang Xuan’s Manuscript Notes) To “Tang Xuan” To “Tang Xian ji” (The Story of Tang Xian)

From First-Person to Third-person Narrative, and then to Hakka Ballad: From “Tang Xuan shouji” (Tang Xuan’s Manuscript Notes) To “Tang Xuan” To “Tang Xian ji” (The Story of Tang Xian) Wilt L. Idema (bio) Wilt L. Idema Harvard University Wilt L. Idema Wilt L. Idema (b. 1944) obtained his Ph.D. from Leiden University in 1974. He taught at Leiden University (1970–1999) and Harvard University (2000–2013). His research has mostly focused on traditional Chinese vernacular literature. He has published widely on early Chinese drama (with Stephen H. West) and on Chinese women’s literature (with Beata Grant). In recent years he also has completed several volumes of translations of traditional Chinese song narrative and prosimetric literature. His most recent publications include The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015); Passion, Poverty, and Travel: Traditional Hakka Songs and Ballads (Hackensack: World Century, 2015); The Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei: Local Opera under the Revolution (1949–1956) (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2015); The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2015); and Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language (with Stephen H. West; Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2016). Correspondence to: Wilt L. Idema, Harvard University, Leiden, The Netherlands. Email: idema@fas.harvard.edu. Footnotes 1. Li Fang 李昉 comp., Taiping guangji 太 平廣 記 (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1961), juan 332, pp. 2635–38. 2. See Li Jianguo 李劍國, Tang Wudai zhiguai chuanqi xulu 唐五代志怪傳奇敘錄 (Notes on anomaly tales and chuanqi stories of the Tang and Five dynasties; Tianjin: Nankai daxue, 1993), pp. 156–57 (on “Tang Xuan” and its circulation) and 489–93 (on Tongyou ji), and idem, “Tangdai chuanqi jiaodu zhaji (er)” 唐代傳奇校讀札記 (二) (Notes on the collation of Tang dynasty chuanqi tales [number 2]), Wenxue yichan 文學遺產 (Literary heritage) 2015.5: 41 (on “Tang Xuan”). Although Li actually uses “Tang Xuan shouji” as the name of his entry on “Tang Xuan” in his book, he admits “the original title was not that, it is already not possible to know” (fei yuanti rushi, ti yi bu ke zhi 非原題如是, 題已不可知). 3. A detailed English-language summary of the tale is provided by Daniel Hsieh in his Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2008), pp. 189–91. Hsieh treats the story as an example of conjugal love surviving even after death. 4. These particular daowang shi 悼 亡 詩 (poems lamenting the departed) have been treated in discussions of this genre during the Tang. See Hu Xu 胡旭, Daowang shi shi 悼亡詩史 (Shanghai: Dongfang chuban she, 2010), pp. 95–97; Shu Hongxia 舒紅霞 and Gao Haiyang 高海洋, “‘Duchou taoli jie, bu gong yequan kai’: Tangdai daowangshi de shikong miaoxie” 獨愁桃李節, 不共夜泉開: 唐代悼亡詩的時空描寫 (Saddened on my own that in the season of peach and plum,/ I am unable to bloom with you in the other world [this couplet actually comes from the first of Tang Xuan’s two poems to his dead wife]: The description of time and space in poetic laments for the departed), Bianjiang jingji yu wenhua 邊疆經濟與文化 (The economy and literature of the borders) 2012.11: 50–51. 5. Chen Ruoshui 陳弱水, “Cong “Tang Xuan” kan Tangdai shizu shenghuo yu xintai de jige fangxiang” 從唐晅看唐代士族生活與心態的幾個方向 (Looking at several tendencies in Tang dynasty gentry life and mentality from “Tang Xuan”), Xin shixue 新史學 (New historiography) 10.2 (June 1996): 1–27. 6. This translation was first published as Anonymous, “Tale of Tang Xian,” Wilt L. Idema, tr., Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series 31/32 (2013): 225–44. A slightly revised version was included in Wilt L. Idema, Passion, Poverty, and Travel: Traditional Hakka Songs and Ballads (Hackensack, NJ: World Century, 2015), pp. 109–26. 7. “Xian” and “Xuan” are easily interchanged in Southern dialects. For instance, the male protagonists in versions of the legend of the White Snake is known both as Xu Xuan 許宣 and Xu Xian 許仙. 8. Anonymous, “Tale of Tang Xian,” p. 242. 9. Qiu Chunmei, Taiwan Kejia shuochang wenxue “zhuanzai” yanjiu, p. 276. Copyright © 2018 The Permanent Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature, Inc.

A Ghost Ballad by Matthew Prior

A single-sheet broadside in the Crawford collection, on loan to the National Library of Scotland, is entitled A Ballad on the Battle of the Two Dukes (Crawford 1196).1 It appears to be the only copy known. There is a manuscript note at the head of the text, above a woodcut illustration, in an eighteenth-century hand, which reads: ‘duke upon duke / An Excellent New Play House Ballad / made [?] by Mr Prior.2 Accordingly the library catalogue attributes the item to Matthew Prior, and adds the information, ‘[London: s.n. 1688?]’ The same facts are supplied by the entry in Wing, 2nd edn, B604BB; they are also copied in EEBO, ESTC (item R172574), and the English Broadside Ballad database (item EBBA 34706), the first and last of which reproduce the text of the poem. All these sources have mistaken the occasion of the ballad, and along with this its date and author.

From First-Person to Third-Person Narrative, and Then to Hakka Ballad: From “Tang Xuan shouji” (Tang Xuan's Manuscript Notes) to “Tang Xuan” to “Tang Xian ji” (The Story of Tang Xian)

The seventeenth of forty chapters on gui 鬼 (ghosts) in Taiping guangji 太平廣記 (Extensive records assembled in the Taiping era; 981) contains a tale called “Tang Xuan” 唐晅.1 It gives its source as Tong...

Christianity, Antiquity, and Enlightenment: Interpretations of Locke (review)

Reviewed by: Christianity, Antiquity, and Enlightenment: Interpretations of Locke Dmitri Levitin Victor Nuovo. Christianity, Antiquity, and Enlightenment: Interpretations of Locke. International Archives of the History of Ideas 203. Dordrecht-New York: Springer, 2011. Pp. xix + 274. Cloth, $139.00. Since Locke’s theology became a matter for serious scholarship, the key works have been Wainwright’s “Introduction” to the Paraphrase and notes on … St Paul (Oxford, 1987), Higgins-Biddle’s “Introduction” to the Reasonableness of Christianity (Oxford, 1999), and the ongoing work of John Marshall. Like Wainwright and Higgins-Biddle, Victor Nuovo’s familiarity with Locke’s published writings and unpublished manuscripts stems from his editorial activity: he is currently preparing Locke’s Theological Manuscripts for the Clarendon Works. This familiarity with the texts, especially the manuscripts, is the greatest strength of the collected essays under review here (five previously published articles, three conference papers, and three new pieces). This strength, however, throws into relief some of the weaknesses. I will address the three themes of the book’s title in turn. Christianity. This subject comprises the heart of the book (chapters 1–6). There is much of interest here. Drawing extensively on the manuscripts, chapter 2 offers a narrative survey of Locke’s theological interests from 1694 to 1704, outlining the wide nature of Locke’s program of theological study in the early 1690s, and then demonstrating how Locke narrowed his focus to the issue of justification around the end of 1694. In chapters 3 and 5, Professor Nuovo adds many useful details to our knowledge of Locke’s approach to the New Testament narrative. He is to be commended for recognizing that a full study of Locke’s theology must shift away from the historiographical obsession with his possible antitrinitarianism. His placing of the Reasonableness in the context of the controversy over justification incited by the re-publication of the works of Tobias Crisp is convincing (32–33). I am not convinced, however, by the argument for Locke’s belief in Christ’s pre-existence: it does not follow from the fact that in the Reasonableness, “Jesus’s reticence to reveal his true identity is explained by his need to fulfil the prophecies concerning him,” that “it was as though his intellectual nature was a sort of script fashioned by God on account of Adam’s fall and imprinted beforehand on the soul of the incarnate Messiah” (37). This claim is later repeated (81), the evidence being Locke’s notes from Nicholas Gibbon (usefully printed at 100–101), about whom it would be nice to hear more, and a manuscript note from 1 Pet. 1:11 (“the spirit of Christ was in [the ancient prophets]”). But it is unclear to me why in the former case Locke’s notes should be taken as signalling agreement, and in the latter why ‘spirit’ must, for Locke, have meant “Christ’s rational soul,” as suggested. [End Page 128] There are also issues of interpretation, especially when Professor Nuovo attempts to connect the various strands of his argument. For example, reading Locke’s Christology into his other works is problematic: that he worked on theological topics in the 1690s does not mean that he “came to regard [the Essay] as a natural theology,” nor is his theory of knowledge adequately characterized as a “theistic reliabilism” (89–90). More fundamentally, Professor Nuovo’s reading repeats a fallacy current since Locke became an idol of liberal theologians in the nineteenth century: that his historical-contextual approach to scripture was particularly novel or indebted to his novelty in other fields (113). Recent historiography is dismantling this narrative: a historical-contextual approach to the Bible was not the product of the “new philosophy,” but a gradual outgrowth of late sixteenth-century humanism. Locke was familiar with this tradition, and Professor Nuovo knows some of the relevant evidence (e.g. Locke’s reading of John Lightfoot), but there remains much more to be found among the manuscripts. Antiquity. I focus less on these chapters (7–9) because they rely on a peculiar methodology that offers little in the way of historical analysis. Professor Nuovo admits that he is not interested in Locke’s actual attitude to Platonism...

The Top of the Top End: John Gilbert's Manuscript Notes for John Gould on Vertebrates from Port Essington and Cobourg Peninsula (Northern Territory, Australia): With Comments on Specimens Collected During the Settlement Period 1838 to 1849, and Subsequently [Book Review

Review(s) of: The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, by Clemency Fisher and John Calaby, Supplement 4. Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia and World Museum, Liverpool, UK. 2009; iv + 240 pp; paperback. ISSN 1833-7511. Includes references.

An Unpublished Whitman Manuscript on Emerson

Reprints a newly found unpublished Whitman manuscript note about Emerson, registering Whitman's sense of a decline in Emerson's powers as he ages.

Jean Cocteau's Le Livre blanc: sex, text and images

From the first edition to the last one published, while he was still alive, Jean Cocteau systematically refused to print his name on the cover of Le Livre blanc: the text was to remain anonymous, although Cocteau himself had not hesitated to demonstrate his intimate relationship to the book by illustrating it on several occasions, and by adding a short manuscript note to the second French edition and a longer foreword to the English one. Indeed, of all Cocteau's books, Le Livre blanc is probably one of his most confusing, because of both its subject and its form or forms. Even today it remains difficult to consider this book. The critic finds himself lost among the multiple editions (see list in fine), the various versions of the text, and the many illustrations, as well as the prefaces, manuscript notes and frontispieces. Despite it') nature as a confidential text often dismissed by the critics and Cocteau himself, Le Livre blanc has appeared in no less than 13 different editions from 1928 to the present. This number is quite exceptional given the topic of the book: male homosexuality.

Yeats and the logic of formalism

and the Logic of deals with as a in Yeats's works and how that in turn affects both his art and his politics. Vereen M. Bell's understanding of formalism and philosophy stems from a meditation by Yeats in a manuscript note: Sometimes I doubt life's values behind my own thought. They should have been there before the stream began, before it became necessary for the work to create them. In Bell's reading, is not simply a of art but a of life as directed by art - an existential one at its source. While Bell understands that is not a paradigm-shifting topic in today's theoretical debates, he does attempt to reconsider the concept's credibility in the context of other competing theoretical discourses. Bell invokes and elaborates upon Edward Said's reading of Yeats as a special kind of colonial subject. He revisits the issue of how much Yeats and Nietzsche have in common and tries to show, in the manner of J Hillis Miller, that the primordial is for Yeats what ultimately sets itself against. and the Logic of Formalism mediates between older, more traditional readings of Yeats's work and recent theoretical, often antagonistic readings in an effort to restore a balanced perspective. The author centers most of his discussion on the poetry itself to provide a total reading of Yeats's work. Early in his career Yeats wrote: and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art. Coded in the word Hope here - considering the cultural and historical circumstances under which Yeats worked - is what Bell believes is the meaning, existentially, of Yeats's career.

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES

Naval Engineers JournalVolume 117, Issue 4 p. 78-79 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES First published: 29 October 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2005.tb00390.xAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume117, Issue4October 2005Pages 78-79 RelatedInformation

Les grands rongeurs du Pliocène supérieur de Saint-Vallier (Drôme, France) : Castoridae, Hystricidae (Mammalia, Rodentia)

In the Saint-Vallier locality large rodents are represented by two castorids and one porcupine. The material is not abundant and comes exclusively from the ancient Viret's excavations; the recent ones yielded no additional material from these forms. Castor fiber is represented by an almost complete skull and associated mandibles of a large individual, and some isolated teeth. Their measurements correspond to the largest extant representatives of the genus (except the muzzle that seems to be a little larger); so this material is attributed to the extant species and no longer, as Viret did, to a fossil species Castor plicidens, the validity of which being questioned by recent authors. Extant castorids testify to the presence of a mixing of running and still waters, at least 1.5 to 2 meters in depth, never completely dry or completely frozen; they feed exclusively on plants: leaves, branches and bark of different trees but also various grasses and rhizomes of aquatic plants. An incisor, first attributed to a porcupine by Viret, was later recognized by himself (in a manuscript note) as a representative of another — now extinct — castorid, Trogontherium cuvieri, as large as Castor fiber, but which disappeared in the MNQ 23 level. The fossil porcupine Hystrix refossa is a little larger than the extant Hystrix cristata but otherwise very similar; porcupines favour relatively arid biotopes with sparse vegetation and feed on succulent roots, fruits, bark of trees, some insects and flesh; they frequently gnaw bones.

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES

Naval Engineers JournalVolume 112, Issue 6 p. 77-78 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES First published: 18 March 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2000.tb03385.xAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume112, Issue6November 2000Pages 77-78 RelatedInformation

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES

Naval Engineers JournalVolume 112, Issue 5 p. 103-104 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES First published: 18 March 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2000.tb03368.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume112, Issue5September 2000Pages 103-104 RelatedInformation

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MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES AND NOTES

Naval Engineers JournalVolume 108, Issue 6 p. 90-91 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES AND NOTES First published: November 1996 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1996.tb01593.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume108, Issue6November 1996Pages 90-91 RelatedInformation

MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES

Naval Engineers JournalVolume 107, Issue 3 p. 314-315 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES First published: May 1995 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1995.tb03055.xAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume107, Issue3May 1995Pages 314-315 RelatedInformation

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Naval Engineers JournalVolume 106, Issue 5 p. 118-119 MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES & NOTES First published: September 1994 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1994.tb02340.xAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume106, Issue5September 1994Pages 118-119 RelatedInformation

Le genus supplicii des Quarante Martyrs de Sébaste. Un mémoire inédit de Gerardus Vossius (1602)

Edition of a manuscript note by the Belgian scholar Gerardus Vossius (1547-1609) on the XL martyrs of Sebasteia, which is now preserved at Rome, Bibl. Alessandrina, 92, ff. 7-8v. The scholar defends the traditional version of the martyrdom - that on the lake - in accordance with the rules laid down by the Congregation for the Reform of the Breviary under Cardinal Sirleto (1514-1585).