B. B.
"Pandecte," an entire Copy of the Bible.—Dr. Maitland, in his valuable essays on the Dark Ages, has drawn attention to this use of the word Pandecte, but was not at the time aware that it is so employed by any writer before Alcuin (p. 194. n. 9. ed. 1844). It will be found, however, in the following, extract from Bede's Chronicon (in Monument. Britan., p. 101. A). The historian is speaking of certain presents which his abbot, Ceolfrith, was carrying with him on his pilgrimage to Rome, when death cut it short at Langres:
"Qui inter alia donaria quæ adferre disposuerat, misit ecclesiæ S. Petri pandectem a B. Hieronymo in Latinum ex Hebræo vel Græco fonte translatum."
C. H.
St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge.
Queries.
BOY BISHOP AT ETON.
In Heywood's edition of the Statutes of King's College, Cambridge, and Eton College (Longman, 1850), a MS. is quoted under the title of Consuetudinarium vetus Scholæ Etoniensis (sic), Harl. MSS. 7044, p. 167. From a MS. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
It is a sort of Fasti Etonenses, recording in somewhat quaint terms the old customs which were then traditionary in the school. In the month of November, according to this authority, "in die