—I have a Note on this very epitaph, made several years since, from whence extracted I know not; but there is an English version attached, which may prove interesting to some readers, as it exactly imitates the style of the Latin:
cur- f- w- d- dis- and p-
"A -sed -iend -rought -eath ease -ain."
bles- fr- b- br- and ag-
E. S. TAYLOR.
Lady Petre's Monument (Vol. iv., p. 22.).
—Will the following passage, from Murray's Handbook to Southern Germany, throw any light on the meaning of the initials at the foot of Lady Petre's monument, as alluded to in your Number of July 12, 1851?
"At the extremity of the right-hand aisle of the cathedral of St. Stephen, is the marble monument of the Emperor Frederick III., ornamented with 240 figures and 40 coats of arms, carved by a sculptor of Strasburg, Nicholas Lerch. On a scroll twisted around the sceptre in the hand of the effigy, is seen Frederick's device or motto, the letters A. E. I. O. U., supposed to be the initials of the words Alles Erdreich Ist Oesterreich Unterthan; or, in Latin, Austriæ Est Imperare Orbis Universi."—Murray's Handbook to Southern Germany, pp. 135, 136.
C. M. G.
Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
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