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BiBLiA Anagram MATic A 
 
 
 THE ANAGRAMMATIC BIBLE 
 
 A LITERARY CURIOSITY 
 
 GATHERED FROM UNEXPLORED SOURCES AND 
 FROM BOOKS OF THE GREATEST RARITY 
 
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 REV. WALTER BEGLEY ^ ^ (V 
 
 AUTHOR OF "BIBLIA CABALISTICA," EDITOR OF MILTON'S "NOVA SOLYMA " 
 AUTHOR OF "IS IT SHAKESPEARE?" ETC. 
 
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 AND TO WANDER AT THEIR OWN SWEET WILL 
 
 INTO THE BY-PATHS AND HIDDEN NOOKS 
 
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 BEGUN WITH JOYFUL EXPECTATION 
 
 CONTINUED WITH INCREASING PLEASURE 
 
 AND ENDED WITH REGRET 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGES 
 
 INTRODUCTION ... 3-18 
 
 VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 21-90 
 
 GENESIS TO BOOK OF JOB 2I-3S 
 
 THE PSALMS: SEPARATE TEXTS 35-62 
 
 PSALM LI 40-41 
 
 PSALM XCI 46-47 
 
 PSALM CXIII 50 
 
 APPENDIX TO PSALMS ... .... 54-62 
 
 PROVERBS TO MALACHI 63-9O 
 
 APOCRYPHA ANAGRAMMATICA 93-i04 
 
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viil CONTENTS 
 
 PAGES 
 
 NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM . . 107-182 
 
 GOSPELS OF MATTHEW AND MARK .... IO7-II9 
 
 THE lord's prayer IN SEVEN ANAGRAMS . . . II2-I15 
 
 GOSPELS OF LUKE AND JOHN II9-I71 
 
 THE MAGNIFICAT IN THREE ANAGRAMS . . I24-127 
 
 THE ANGELICAL SALUTATION .... . 132-165 
 
 ACTS OF THE APOSTLES TO APOCALYPSE . . 171-182 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY „ .... 185-212 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 NEARLY the whole of the contents of this present work — a 
 BibHcal Curio is perhaps the best description of it — has 
 been gathered from fields of theological literature hitherto 
 absolutely untrodden by explorers, and hardly known even 
 to the most excursive scholar. This is my chief plea for favourable 
 notice and acceptance, and my principal excuse for giving my collections 
 to the printer. 
 
 My feeling is that, whatever else may be said for or against my 
 Biblia Anagrammatica, it cannot possibly be denied that I present the 
 public with a novelty ; and in these days of restless enquiry, we seem as 
 eager as the Athenians for anything that is new or out of the common — 
 so that is somewhat in my favour. And another thing is that the great 
 majority of the pamphlets and books which have afforded the foundation 
 and furnished the materials for my work, have never been read, or even 
 looked into, by any Englishman except myself. And this was the case, 
 too, with even a larger percentage of books in my Cabalistic Bible. 
 I fear it will be thought by many that this Is far too wide an assertion, 
 a too conceited and unlikely statement to be accepted on my simple 
 ipse dixi alone. Yet the assertion is safe enough, if it be only taken 
 into consideration that most of the rare books I have used for my 
 purpose, exist only in two or three copies, and these hidden away for 
 the most part in out-of-the-way libraries on the Continent, or in the 
 privileged old monasteries that are getting fewer and fewer as time rolls 
 on. Now, my own experience is that in such places, charming as they 
 are to me, I have hardly ever had the extra pleasure of meeting a fellow- 
 countryman, or even an American cousin — and if I did by any chance 
 
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 meet one turning over the catalogues, he was never searching for books 
 of this kind. Some, I am confident, are to be found nowhere in this 
 country except in my own library, to which they have been added, in 
 the course of year§, by that diligent and persistent search in English and 
 foreign catalogues, and in booksellers' shops, both at home and abroad — 
 a search which is the grand sport and true delight of every' genuine 
 book-hunter. Most of these are unknown to all bibliographers, and 
 after what has been said, I hope my assertion that many of these curios 
 have never been seen or read by any Englishman except myself, will be 
 absolved from the literary crime of exaggeration or conceit. 
 
 But in spite of the novelty I claim for my Biblical theme, I do not 
 expect that it will prove interesting to many — that is frankly admitted, 
 and further endorsed by my printing only a limited number of copies. 
 I present no attractions for novel-reading ladies, nor yet for the " man 
 in the street." Both these important sections of the reading public are 
 barred by the Latin in the body of the Biblia, while the student reader 
 has more important works to occupy his attention, and the up-to-date 
 theology-student will, of course, prefer the heresy of the worst articles in 
 the Encyclopedia Biblica to the best curios of the old-fashioned and 
 orthodox Biblia Anagrammatica. But it is hoped that a small remnant 
 will be left who can find a genuine enjoyment in these ingenuities and 
 curiosities of the Republic of Letters. There have been workmen in 
 that republic who could carve cherry stones very admirably and very 
 patiently. It is my privilege to introduce some of these literary 
 wonders, with specimens of their work, to such readers as may care for 
 their acquaintance. 
 
 Some of the work, especially the Rosary of responsive anagrams 
 which Salvi made from the Psalms, is marvellous, when we consider the 
 neatness and finish of many of the beads. 
 
 The metrical anagrams, the most difficult of all, are extremely 
 good, and if the earlier parts of the Biblia Anagrammatica prove 
 wearisome, let the reader at least turn to the monkish metres formed 
 from Luke i. 26-33, Luke i. 39-42, and to the hexameters formed from 
 the Lord's Prayer and the Magnificat before he quite throws the 
 book aside. 
 
 The Virgin Mary and the Doctrine of her Immaculate Conception 
 
INTRODUCTION 5 
 
 fill up a very large part of the present work. The reason for this is that 
 the makers of Biblical anagrams belong, almost without exception, to 
 some of the great Religious Orders — e.g. Franciscans, Augustinians, or 
 Jesuits — and lived at the time when the Dogma of the Immaculate 
 Conception was a burning question, and they the great defenders of it. 
 
 The Dominicans, following St. Thomas Aquinas, were by no means 
 so keen for this particular dogma, and not one Dominican contributes 
 to the Anagrammatic Bible. 
 
 Our work is collected from various sources, which are given fully 
 in the Bibliographical Appendix, but I would say here that the chief 
 contributors are Donino Fidalmi, Bonaventura da Santa Rosalia, 
 Turrius, Klimeccius, and Pompeius Salvi. Of Salvi and of Klimeccius 
 we know very little, except that Salvi was of Ferrara and a Franciscan, 
 and that Klimeccius was a Pole and belonged to the order of the 
 Reformed Minorites. 
 
 But of the other three we can give a better account. It is rather 
 a surprise to find that they were busy and learned ecclesiastics, faithfully 
 serving their Church and Order in their generation, and by no means 
 the solitary monkish recluses which our imagination usually suggests as 
 the most likely authors of such ingenious trifling. 
 
 Their work was a labour of love — it was their knightly service to 
 the Lady of their choice. Their strict vows and their sacred profession 
 allowed no earthly choice of gentle dames ; and so it was that many an 
 ardent southern temperament filled up the aching void with a lifelong 
 devotion to the honour of the Virgin Mother — the Purest Ideal of the 
 Eternal Feminine that has ever been presented in .4rt or Tradition. 
 
 There could not possibly be any spot or taint of sin in that Pure 
 Ideal — so thought the lover, of imagination all compact, and so thought 
 the more ardent and leading spirits of the Church ; and those devotees 
 who had the talents and the patience requisite for the work, brought 
 forth their chaplets and rosaries of purest anagram, and laid them as 
 their richest offerings before the Virgin's shrine. 
 
 Of Joan. Franc. Turrius (Torre), a Capucin of Lucca, who died in 
 1665, we read that his famous book of 11 79 anagrams on the Angelical 
 Salutation, published in 1664, was encased in lead and buried with him, 
 even as an Indian chief's greatest treasure. His faithful horse bore his 
 
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 master company in the silent tomb and in the equal sky. And it was 
 this same devoted anagrammatist who, when he felt the hand of death 
 was upon him, sent a message to his favourite nephew, then at Rome, 
 begging him to come at once to Lucca, as he had business of much 
 importance for him. When the nephew arrived his old uncle was 
 in extremis, and had received the last ministrations of the Church ; but 
 he was able to take from under his pillow some sheets of manuscript 
 written in a very shaky and almost illegible hand, full of erasures and 
 interlineations. " Here," said the dying Capucin, " are two rosaries of 
 anagrams (300) for the Virgin ; defraud her not, my son, of this my 
 last offering. They are in sad disorder, but I will help you to prepare 
 them." The dutiful nephew set about his arduous work at once, and, 
 with occasional assistance, completed his task just in time for his uncle 
 to leave the world with the peace-giving thought that his last labour 
 of life was not quite in vain. 
 
 But we have to give an account of the two principal contributors to 
 our Anagrammatic Bible. 
 
 Of Bonaventura da S. Rosalia we know the most, because his life 
 was published along with his various anagrams In 1741, in a quarto 
 volume of 268 pages. It is so rare that I can hardly hope ever to 
 possess it. I could find copies in only two of the many great libraries 
 in Italy that I visited in several successive years. I made short extracts 
 on the spot, but am indebted to the kindness of the Italian Government 
 for allowing me the use here in England of one of these copies for a 
 sufficient time to gather together the necessary material embedded in 
 the present work, our ambassador very courteously forwarding my 
 application. As the book is so inaccessible, a rather full account may 
 be worth the record. 
 
 Its title is in the Bibliography, and from the contents we gather that 
 Padre Bonaventura da Santa Rosalia was born at Milan, August 15th, 
 1665. He was christened at the parish church of S. Carpoforo on the 
 28th of the same month, and received the names of Francesco Saverio 
 Gaetano, being one of the eight children of Giambattista Renoglio, who 
 was a man of the middle class, and devoted to the Church. Of his eight 
 children only one remained in a secular occupation. The five daughters 
 became the spouses of Jesus Christ in different convents, and two sons 
 
INTRODUCTION 7 
 
 entered the rigorous order of the barefooted Augustinians. The only 
 son of the brother who alone remained to worldly occupations, became 
 a Jesuit while yet a most promising lad ; and so we are told that his 
 uncle, the Padre Bonaventura, saw the certain end of all hope of 
 descendants of his family, and looked at it joyfully as the offering of a 
 holocaust to the Almighty. 
 
 Our anagrammatist died in 1730, aged 64, and it was not till 
 eleven years afterwards that the superiors of the monastery instructed 
 one of the brothers, who was intimately acquainted with Father 
 Bonaventura, to write his life and virtues. His life is that of a pains- 
 taking, conscientious religious, whose health was not good, and who was 
 inclined to solitude and seclusion. He passed successfully through . the 
 various offices of the order ; was Master of the Novices for some time, 
 and also Provincial. His works were not published in his lifetime, 
 but were, in a large manuscript volume, bequeathed to his monastery 
 at Milan after his death. He prepared a work of 1700 anagrams on 
 the " Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum," under the title of the 
 Anno Itnmaculato, in 1700, and it received the praise and authorization 
 of P. Don Girolamo Meazza, the Inquisitor's censor ; but his poverty, 
 which was of the strictest character, in accordance with his vow, 
 prevented this or his greater work being sent through the press. His 
 memory was remarkable, and he composed a very large number of his 
 anagrams while lying awake at night, and in the dark. His poverty 
 would not allow of a light, and so he waited for the morning beams 
 to note them down. His humility, abstinence, and chastity were 
 remarkable. As to his numerous anagrams, he gave them the title of 
 frivolezze divote. In his last illness he had shown some desire that his 
 anagrams should be printed for the honour of the Virgin, but on second 
 thoughts, fearing that vain glory might have a share in his wishes, he 
 with holy resolution and indifference said : — " Oh, via non parlisi piu 
 di questo : faccia il Signore la Sua Divina Volanta, e quanto possa 
 essere di niaggior gloria alia Sua Cara Madre Maria. Non fece quindi 
 altro che pregare un sacerdote accio preso il Libro degli Anagram mi lo 
 riponesse in su 1' Altare dell' Oratorio a i piedi di Maria, e cosi benne 
 ad oiFerirle insieme di quelle il sacrificio piu accetto, qual fu la totale 
 rassegnazione al Divino Vplere," 
 
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 His order, no doubt, or rather the members of it, would have 
 been pleased at his beatification, and therefore, in spite of the usual 
 protest of the anonymous author, that he strictly accepts the decree 
 of Urban VIII. in 1625, afterwards repeated and confirmed, against 
 attributing miracles or supernatural graces to anyone lately deceased, 
 with a view to procure the public estimation of his sanctity and 
 enrolment among the glorified ones of the Church, he still in the last 
 chapter gives some account of the extraordinary graces and prophetical 
 knowledge and power of Padre Bonaventura ; but no life of a servant 
 of God at this period could be without such a chapter. 
 
 He often made his anagrams on his knees before the picture of 
 the Immaculate Conception in the Oratorio dell' Infermeria di Cremona; 
 at other times In his cell, gazing with eyes full of tears at a little picture 
 of the Virgin, which he used to hold in his hand. 
 
 In the last year of his life, on the Feast of Pentecost, he astonished 
 his companions by repeating a " divine anagram " on the Veni, Creator, 
 Spiritus, and added "Meschino me, che questa sola mattina vi ha avertito." 
 He blamed himself that through " disattenzione " he had not noticed 
 that such an excellent anagram could be made in honour of the Virgin 
 till so late in his life. 
 
 Argelati [Bibl. Scriptt. Medial., col. 1202, s. v. Renolius, Fr. Xav.) 
 uses the strong expression " hoc anagramma memoriter composuit," but this 
 is hardly borne out by the account above from his life. The anagram 
 was from the Programma : 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Veni, Creator, Spiritus, Venisti praecipue totus raptus 
 Mentes tuorum visita, amore 
 
 Imple superna gratia Virginis ter intactas, terque prorsus 
 Quae tu creasti pectora. Immaculatas. 
 
 The author, in 1729, when he heard that the electoral Duke of 
 Bavaria had instituted a new order of knights under the protection of 
 the Virgin, resolved to dedicate his book to the Duke under the 
 following title : " Maria Immaculata pubblicato dall' Angiolo, 6 vero, 
 cinquanta Salterii di cento cinquanta anagrammi per cadauno cavati dall' 
 
INTRODUCTION 9 
 
 Angelico Programma : 'Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum,' divisi 
 con altri anagrammi presi da varii Testi scritturali e con alcuni simboli, 
 ed Elogi espressi in Immagini a Lode della stessa Immaculata Vergine 
 Maria dedicata di un Eremeta Scalzo di S. Agostino." But just when 
 he had everything almost prepared for press death struck him down, 
 and the idea also. The date of his death is given on a portrait prefixed 
 to the account of his life as February 9th, 1730, and his age 64. 
 Argelati says he died at Cremona, .but gives no dates except his birth 
 at Milan in 1683, which is wrong by nearly twenty years. 
 
 Admiration for the anagrams of the blind J. B. Agnensis (161 1 — 
 1667), together with extreme devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, first 
 prompted him to compose some anagrams on the same programma — viz. 
 "Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum," and he was so successful 
 and persevering that he eventually composed 5300 in Italian, and 2500 
 in Latin ; whereas J. B. Agnensis only made 1 1 1 5 altogether. As a 
 composer of anagrams Bonaventura da S. Rosalia was wonderfully quick 
 in his work, and evidence is given in his life to show that on one 
 occasion he composed in three days and nights a rosary of anagrams 
 (150) on the Angelical Salutation, and performed the feat without any 
 interference with his spiritual and worldly duties. A record, surely ! 
 I am afraid that most of his labours in this line have perished. Argelati 
 says that the original MS. was at Milan in his time. In different visits 
 to Milan I have enquired diligently for it in all likely quarters, but 
 without success. It was originally preserved in the monastery of 
 SS. Cosmas and Damiani in the aforesaid city, and contained, says 
 Argelati, over 10,000 anagrams, of which number there were 7500 
 on the favourite Salutatio Angelica. 
 
 Of Donino Fidalmi, who wrote that remarkable little work 
 the Concepttonale Biblicum Anagrammaticum, the only account I can find 
 is that given by Contarini in his careful history De Feretrano Diocesi. 
 It was the fact of our skilful anagrammatist rising to be a bishop that 
 has enabled us to know something about him, and if Contarini had not 
 taken this diocese as the subject of his historical research, we should 
 probably have been ignorant even of his correct name. Donino Fidalmi 
 is really a pseudonym, being an anagram made out of his true name, 
 which was Flaminio Dondi. I have put the chief points of Contarini' s 
 
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 original account in a note.* It amounts to this : Flaminius Dondi was 
 a native of Parma, who, entering into the strict order of the Fratres 
 Minores de Observantia, gradually won his way to the position of an 
 important theologian and adviser in Papal policy. He seems to have 
 had experience in teaching philosophy and theology for many years, and 
 filled many offices outside his order as well as within it — an active and 
 useful " man of affairs." In 17 17, being then about 56 years old, he 
 was made a Bishop in partibus by Clement XL, and in 1724 he was 
 made Bishop of Feretri, and died August 12th, 1729, aged 68. 
 
 From the above accounts we may justly infer that these zealous 
 ecclesiastics were like St. Paul in one respect — they ardently desired to 
 have their conversation in heaven, to use our unrevised familiar phrase. 
 They felt, even as he, that they were citizens of a better country, and 
 that their true Fatherland was not on earth. But I am afraid they 
 peopled the Patria Calestis in a very different way from the great 
 
 * " Flaminius Dondi ex Vicariatu S. Jacobi Parmensis Dioecesis et ex ordine 
 Fratrum Minorum de Observantia assumptus. D. Francisci regulam professus Dondi 
 PhilosophJEe et Theologiae addiscendfe sedulam havavit operam, easque docuit per 
 annos plures ; donee expletis consuetis apud suos studiorum curriculis, Lectorem ut 
 ipsi appellant, Jubilatum eum renunciarunt . . . Provincise suae Bononiensis Definitor 
 primum, dein et Minister Provincialis electus fuit . . . Etiam extra claustra in 
 pluribus adhiberetur. Dein apud Burgum S. Donnini degeret, Consultoris S. 
 Inquisitionis munus gessit, Parmae Civitatis et totius Dioecesis examinator fuit 
 Synodalis, Romse Sacrarum Congregationum Inquisitionis et Indicis Consultor extitit, 
 Ravennse Fulvius Cardinalis Astalius Legatus ilium Tlieologum liabuit. Tandem eo 
 ipso Cardinali, ut conjectari licet, apud Clementem XL instante, declaratus est F. 
 Flaminius Dondi Episcopus Abderitanus 17 17, et postremo a Benedicto XIII. ad 
 Feretranam Ecclesiam translatus 12. Kal. Decembris 1724 . . . Iterate apoplexiae 
 ictu percussus e mundo abiit die 12. Augusti 1729." 
 
 He was buried in Ills own cathedral, and his tomb thus described him : 
 
 " F. F'laminius Dondi Parmensis, Ord. Min. Obser. hie jacet. 
 
 Primum Episcopus Abderitanus, dein Feretranus, utramque Ecclesiam rexit 
 provide et fei loiter : 
 
 Immaculatae Virg. Marias Concep. addictissimus, quanto in earn flagraret affectu, 
 ore, calamo, corde monstravit. Obiit in ejus ^dlbus Fontis Scarini pridie id. 
 Augusti an. mdccxxix ; setatis suae 68 ; Episcopatus xin ; Feretrani vero v. 
 
 Pastorem optimum luxit Grex Feretranus, amantissimum insuper parentera, 
 jugiter lugebit Pinna : 
 
 Luge et tu Viator Antistitem in Jansenistas acerrimum, Sapientia, Prudentia, 
 Piefate ac Charitate in pauperes insignem," 
 
INTRODUCTION 1 1 
 
 Apostle. The one great Figure that often almost filled the field of their 
 spiritual Vision of the Courts of Heaven, was the Virgin Mother of 
 God, crowned in glory, and the all sufficient Patrona of her faithful and 
 devoted clients. 
 
 St. Paul certainly does not seem, in his most ecstatic visions, even 
 when rapt to the seventh heaven, to have been vouchsafed this wondrous 
 sight. Perhaps that was one of the things seen and heard by him, but 
 not lawful or possible to be uttered by mortal lips. It may be so, but it is 
 passing strange that no reminiscence of such a glorified Maiden Advocate 
 occurs in any of his Epistles to the Churches. This, however, we 
 know, that as the years of the life of the Church Militant rolled on, 
 so the Vision of Our Lady, faint at first, became stronger and clearer, 
 helped by tradition and miracle, and the reverential awe of many 
 generations of Christians faithful to their Lord's absolute freedom from 
 the remotest taint of sin. 
 
 Our anagrammatists were men who saw that Vision in all its 
 clearness ; and if we can, in a manner, read between the lines and 
 understand the many obscure and mystic fancies in which the anagrams 
 abound, we shall rise from this curious Bible with the feeling that the 
 authors were certainly pious and learned theologians, and orthodox, too, 
 according to the lights of that reactionary period of Church history. 
 
 I present the anagrams without theological note or comment. 
 Satisfactory elucidation of doctrinal allusions, or of the many mystical 
 names given to the Virgin, would be an almost impossible task, for they 
 are frequently founded on the rhetorical statements of her mediasval 
 eulogists, which are quite unread and unknown in the present day, and 
 occasionally extravagant beyond conception My own experience goes 
 to show that there is no subsection in all literature containing so many 
 odd and fantastical books, and so many extravagant arguments, as that 
 subsection of religious literature known as the 'Theologia Mariana. I 
 should say, speaking more as a bibliophile than a critic, that Vitus 
 SchefFer, a Jesuit of Prague, holds the record in his own particular line, 
 which was a somewhat strange one. As some theologians have pro- 
 fessed to see Christ throughout the Old and New Testament, so Vitus 
 SchefFer, in his immense Biblia Immaculata, determined to see the Virgin 
 everywhere in the Bible. He began with Genesis, intending to go 
 
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 through his task verse by verse. In 171 1 his first folio appeared, 
 516 pages, carrying us up to Genesis iii. only. In 17 13 his third folio 
 appeared, and he had reached Gen. xii. in 1761 pages. In 17 17 his 
 sixth folio had reached Gen. xxxvi. with 3375 pages. He then 
 unfortunately died, but he left enough MS. to carry on the work, and 
 in 1722 the end of the Apocalypse was hurriedly arrived at in twelve 
 folio volumes and 6660 pages ! Another folio volume is now lying 
 beside me, where the author, not a Jesuit this time, but a Dominican, 
 discusses 18 10 texts from the Bible, and finds the Virgin Mary In all. 
 
 When perusing this latter book I amused myself by giving marks 
 in the margin to such of the various expositions as appeared to me the 
 most Ingenious or outrageous, for these words became almost synonymous 
 here. The two that received the highest marks were the expositions 
 of the learned Dominican on Deuteronomy xxxlli. 17, where he deals 
 with the question IVhy Christ is compared to a rhinoceros^ and how this 
 applies to the Virgin Mary ; and on Judges vi. 37-39, where he considers 
 at some length How the Virgin Mary is to be found in Gideon s Fleece. 
 This last took the prize, but, unfortunately for the curious reader, it 
 is not quite suitable for reproduction nowadays. 
 
 But I must not wander from the present work, although there 
 are many tempting fields with rare and strange flowers that were sown 
 and flourished in monachal enclosures, and were cherished by saintly 
 mystics. So I return ; and while submitting my anagrams in an order 
 as convenient as possible, I would, if the reader wishes to compare the 
 anagrammatists, to see what standard of excellence they can reach, draw 
 his attention to the anagrams on the Lord's Prayer (Matt. vi. 9-13), p. 112 ; 
 the Magnificat (Luc. i. 46-55), p. 124 ; and Tylkowsky's anagram on the 
 account of the Annunciation at p. 120. Also at Eccleslastlcus xxiv. 3, 
 where the same verse has taxed the powers of three different craftsmen. 
 I think It will be admitted that the work turned out is very creditable, 
 as it Is also frequently elsewhere. 
 
 As our Anagrammatic Bible does not happen to begin very lucidly, 
 I will break through my rule of " no theological note or comment," at 
 least In the case of the first three anagrams, so as, If possible, to prevent 
 any unlucky stumbles over the threshold. 
 
 These three on the creatlgn of the world (Gen. I. i) are by Dondi, 
 
INTRODUCTION 13 
 
 who, as we have read, was a Bishop and a Cardinal's theological adviser 
 as well. For convenience of reference I will repeat them here. 
 
 Programma, Gen. i. i. 
 In principio creavit Deus casluni et terram. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. Tenete lucrum prae Jesu concipi dari Matrl. 
 
 2. Civitas culpas ; Matrl reperiri non decuit. 
 
 3. Audi : Tueor notis reducem Veste miram Ideam Evas. 
 
 The first anagram is not quite so transparent in its language and 
 import as are the greater number of the very appropriate anagrams that 
 succeed it in the present volume. The author seems to be thinking of 
 the mediaeval idea that this world of ours was created by God on 
 account of His love for Jesus and His Virgin Mother. " Propter quem 
 creatus est mundus ? " " For whose sake was the world made ? " asks 
 Fr. Josephus de S. Miguel et Barco in his Biblia Mariana, Genuse, 1702, 
 fol. {sub initio), and the answer there given is : " Propter sapientiam 
 creavit Deus caelum et terram. Propter sapientiam, hoc est, amore 
 Intemerat^ VirginiSj quae est Mundi Sapientia, creavit Deus 
 hunc mundum, et amore Messiae Filii Sui, cui in divinis sapientia 
 tribuitur " ; and the reference given is, strange to say, to Rabbi Ankelos, 
 by which our author no doubt means Onkelos the Targumist ; but what 
 an extraordinary source to fly to for the defence and honour of the 
 Virgin Mary ! However, it was an opinion well known and expressed 
 in the Catholic Text Books ; e.g. in P. Galatinus, lib. 7, cap. 2, de Arcanis 
 Catholics veritatis, where the words are : " Et ideo amore Jesu et Mariae 
 Deus mundum creavit." 
 
 The allusion in Anagram No. 2 Is simpler. The created world was 
 before the Fall declared by God to be very good, but through the fault 
 of our first parents it became a civitas culpte, for sin had found an 
 entrance and reigned universally over all — yet not quite all, for the 
 Mother of God could not possibly have been ever under the power of 
 sin, it was not becoming that she should be even found conceived in sin. 
 
 Anagram No. 3 is a general declaratory one of the author to his 
 
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 readers. He bids them listen while he defends from stigma of sin the 
 second Eve, that wondrous Ideal of our primaeval mother, the first Eve, 
 who appeared not naked as the first, but clad in mystic vesture. 
 
 Albertus Magnus illustrates this in his Biblia Mariana thus : " O 
 Domina, vestis eum {i.e. Christum) et vestiris ab eo ; vestis eum substantia 
 carnis, et ille vestit te gloria suae majestatis." That is to say : "Thou, 
 who art Our Lady, dost clothe Him (thy Blessed Son) as with a garment, 
 and thou also art clothed by Him ; thou dost clothe Him with the 
 substance of thy body of flesh and blood, and He doth clothe thee with 
 the glory of His Majesty." It was also well known and received by all 
 mediaeval theologians that the " woman clothed with the sun," about 
 whom we are told such wonders in the Apocalypse, was a clear, though 
 mystical, figuration of the Blessed Virgin, and, as Jacobus de Voragine 
 tells us in Serm. 2, Sabbat. 3, Domin. Giuadragesima, the actual accom- 
 plishment of this mystery took place when '■'■Sol 'Justitia in ea descendil" ; 
 i.e. "When the Sun of Justice came down and abode in her"; or, as 
 another writer, Daniel Agricola, says : ^'■Qiuando Verbum Dei factum est can 
 in ea " ; that is to say, "When the Word of God was made Flesh in her." 
 
 Such theological illustrations to the anagrams could be multiplied 
 to almost any extent if worth the while. I will give one more as a 
 curiosity, viz. Isaiah vii. 15, Butyrum et met comedet. "Butter and 
 honey shall He (Emmanuel) eat," etc. How can this apply to the 
 Immaculate Conception ? Dondius the theologian knew well enough 
 when he made his anagram, no doubt ; but, as he gives no notes, 
 I will supply the answer from the Stromata Honori S. V. Maria of 
 Fr. Georgius Benedict. Spruszynski, S. T. D., Pater Prov. Russiae et 
 Lithuanlas Ord. Min. Conv. S. Francisci, a very rare book printed at 
 Zamoscium, in Poland, in 1680 : " Christus fuit cibatus sanguine Virginis 
 Maria tanquam lacte, dum in utero ejusdem permaneret. In lacte autem 
 duo ad vertit S. Bemardus : ' Butyrum et caseum, caseum non comedit, 
 butyrum comedit; igitur Beatissima Virgo fuit Immaculate concepta.'" That 
 is to say : " So long as Christ remained in the womb of the Virgin 
 Mary He was nourished by her blood, as if by milk. Now, as St. 
 Bernard points out, ' from milk are derived two substances, butter and 
 cheese, and (as Scripture tells us) He was to eat butter, but (as it is 
 nowhere said that He was to eat cheese, we may assume that) He did 
 
INTRODUCTION 15 
 
 not eat cheese ; therefore the most Blessed Virgin was Immaculately 
 conceived.' " 
 
 This ingenious argument loses somewhat of its force through St. 
 Bernard's conciseness, and through his neglecting to state (though of 
 course he well knew) why the absence of cheese in our Lord's nourish- 
 ment showed the Immaculate Conception ; in fact, St. Bernard's igitur 
 jumps to the conclusion over the intermediate steps. Our learned 
 Pole, Spruszynski, saw this clearly enough, and felt there was a further 
 question which must needs be settled, viz. Why did Christ not eat 
 cheese .'' and on this point we are referred to Gregorius Lusitanus, who 
 settles it very clearly thus : " Butyrum fit ex pura lactis materia absque 
 mixtione coaguli ; caseus vera coaguli mixtione. duid inde ? Isaias de 
 verba incarnato pradixit non caseum sed butyrum fore manducaturum, nam 
 natura humana absque Originali Culpa, lac fuit mundissimum ; ubi vera 
 accessit coagulum iniquitatis, quod Ori^inalis Culpa fuit, amisit simplicem 
 candorem gratia. Butyrum ergo tantum comedet Christus, quia ex 
 Virgine Carnem assumpsit, et ex illo lacte pastus est, in quod coagulum 
 Culpa Originalis non fuit." That is : " Butter is made from milk, pure 
 and simple, without any mixture of rennet or coagulating substances ; 
 but in making cheese such are used. What then is our inference ? 
 Well, we know that Isaiah prophesied of the Incarnate Word that He 
 should not eat cheese, but butter, and the reason was {nam) that our 
 human nature, before its infection by Original Sin, was, so to speak, like 
 the very purest milk ; but when the rennet of iniquity and its hardening 
 power began to work therein, through Original Sin's access, then did 
 human nature lose its simple white purity and favour in God's sight. 
 Therefore Christ shall only eat butter, because he took Flesh from His 
 Virgin Mother, and was fed from that pure fount of milk, in which 
 was no coagulum, no hardening or adulterating element of Original Sin." 
 
 Having adduced these further illuminating arguments and 
 authorities, Spruszynski finally clinches the whole matter in the 
 following brief definition or declaration : " Fuit Butyrum purissimum 
 ex lacte purissimo Maria in sua Conceptione ; ideoque ex ilia comedit 
 Emmanuel ncster,'' which I paraphrase thus : " There was no Butter in 
 the world so pure as that from the purest milk of the Virgin Mary, 
 conceived without spot of sin ; and therefore it was that our Emmanuel 
 
1 6 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 did eat butter, and that from her." Surely such a Doctor of Theology 
 deserves the title that our English medieval clerics once enjoyed — 
 Stupor mundi. 
 
 But even he was surpassed a few years later by another Pole, 
 Fr. Antonius Wegrzynovius, who triumphantly went through the 
 alphabet from A to Z, giving the Virgin her alphabetical titles : 
 
 A rbor sine verme, 
 B alsamum sine mixtura, 
 C olumba sine felle, 
 D omus sine ruina, 
 
 right down to 
 Z abulon sine tributo, 
 
 and proved each title in ten distinct ways and ten distinct sections, 
 viz. Scripturaliter, Figuraliter, Doctoraliter, Miraculose, Scholastice et 
 Theologice ; Philosophice, Symbolice, Poetice, Anagrammatice, et 
 Historice. 
 
 He is in our Bibliography through his anagrammatice — his ninth ' 
 mode of proof. Many of the anagrams are no doubt his own, but 
 some I recognize as being borrowed. 
 
 A few years later Wegrzynovius almost surpassed himself in 
 another somewhat similar work, entitled Syllabus Marianus, in which 
 he goes through all the titles of the Virgin syllabically, as " Ba, Be, Bi, 
 Bo, Bu ; Ca, Ce, Ci, Co, Cu," etc., choosing as his titles "Basis Universi, 
 Beatitudo Beatorum, Bibliotheca Ecclesiae, Botrus terrae promissionis, 
 Bulla aurea Praedestinatorum ; Cathedra sine pestilentia, Ceres aureae 
 messis, Civitas refugii ultimi, Corona agonothetarum, Custodia 
 munitissima," etc., and each and all these titles of the Virgin he 
 proves to be rightly applied to her in five different ways, viz. 
 Scripturaliter, Figuraliter, Doctoraliter, Miraculose, Historice. ' There 
 is even more work in this book than in his earlier attempt. It is a 
 portentous folio — the paging ends at 2049, ^^^ there is a long 
 introduction and copious index not numbered. 
 
 In glancing through these extraordinary anagram books one is apt 
 to exclaim, Cui bono ? Well, there is an answer to that. It must not 
 be forgotten that one object an anagram writer had in publishing his 
 
INTRODUCTION 17 
 
 work was to supply a suitable and useful help to preachers and parish l 
 priests. Several of the books in the Bibliography appended have a 
 special index with reference to the lessons read from the Bible on the 
 various Festivals and Sundays of the Church year, and to the service- 
 able matter to be found in the book for clerical use. Redelius, in his 
 book, Anatomia Spirituals deducta anagrammatice, distinctly states this 
 purpose on his title-page, where he says the work, which is purely 
 anagrammatic throughout, is intended to supply material to preachers, 
 parochial clergy, and those in the religious orders who wish to dwell 
 specially on the praises of the Saints and other sacred themes. 
 
 And there is the Tuba Anagrammatic a of Selhamer, an immensely 
 thick quarto of more than iioo pages, with sermons for all the Sundays 
 and Festivals of the year, each headed by an anagram, on which the j 
 exhortation is to some extent based. These books are dated 1696 and ' 
 1702 respectively, and this period represents the high-water mark of / 
 the Anagrammatic Liturgical Use. The sermons of the seventeenth ( 
 century are generally in Latin, even when the author is a parish priest. 
 This seems strange, but I cannot accept the natural inference that they 
 were delivered in that language. I rather believe that they were 
 revised, re-written, and published in Latin, in order to circulate among 
 the clergy, who would be the chief purchasers, and who, throughout 
 Europe, could most conveniently read, mark, and inwardly digest them 
 In that form. 
 
 There is one other thing that I would also call attention to, and 
 I think it will prove a new feature, even to the expert and curious 
 diver into old books on literary curiosities. I mean the very great 
 length of some of the anagrams here presented. There are several 
 containing from five hundred to more than a thousand letters. As far 
 as I know, none of such magnitude have been referred to before in any 
 treatise on anagrams, either in England or abroad. Books treating 
 specially of anagrams are very few in any language, and the whole 
 number could be easily reckoned up on the fingers of one hand. The 
 only English monograph we have is an interesting little book published 
 about thirty years ago by Mr. H. B. Wheatley, and long out of print. 
 At pages 90-1 he mentions, " the longest anagram I have ever seen " 
 being one on a Spanish nobleman, containing about one hundred and 
 
1 8 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 forty letters. The curious books in my own library alone have yielded 
 more than a hundred anagrams, chiefly non-Biblical, ranging from two 
 hundred to a thousand letters ; and besides the two in the present 
 volume containing above a thousand letters, viz. Ps. xc. and Ps. 1., 
 there are eight others (all in metre!), ranging from t\i& Stabat Mater, 
 1 1 1 6 letters, to what is called Casimir's Hymn, Omni die die Maria, 
 4419 letters ; but the proper place for these latter is an Anagrammatic 
 Breviary, which may possibly be prepared soon, as I have a large 
 amount of material for it. 
 
 Besides being of use in adorning sermons, anagrams were also 
 occasionally brought into evidence at the meetings of the learned 
 Academies of Italy and Germany. A learned, and very likely a titled 
 member, of the Academy would read or recite to the assembly some 
 paper dealing with the anagrammatic, chronogrammatic, and cabalistical 
 evidence in favour of an Emperor's success or the birth of an heir to 
 the crown. 
 
 There was a feeling, even in cultivated circles, that there was 
 something sacred or divine in the neat and appropriate results which 
 were often obtained from letters and numbers. I have a folio MS., 
 written by an Italian Count in the seventeenth century, where there 
 is a long address, entitled Pythagorica Oratio, filled with arguments 
 derived from anagrams and numbers. It was received with applause 
 by the notabilities who were present, and added considerably to the 
 reputation of the author. Such literary miracles do not happen now. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM 
 ANAGRAMMATICUM 
 
 19 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM 
 ANAGRAMMATICUM 
 
 Gen. i. I. 
 
 Programma. 
 In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. Tenete lucrum- pfas Jesu concipi, dari Matri. 
 
 2. Civitas culpae ; Matrem reperiri non decuit. 
 
 3. Audi : Tueor notis reducem Veste miram Ideam Evae. 
 
 FiDALMI. 
 
 Gen. ii. 8. Anagrammata. 
 
 Plantaverat autem Dominus Deus En Maria apparuit Immaculata, 
 Paradisum voluptatis a principio. ut Deo suo propius, ut intus 
 
 splendida. 
 Bonaventura da S. Rosalia., 
 
 Gen. ii. 22. 
 
 Et asdificavit Dominus Deus Diu ludendo ad nives Mariam 
 
 costam, quam tulerat 4e Adam, fecit Immaculatam, quod vite 
 
 in mulierem. Mater esset. 
 
 Fidalmi. 
 
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22 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Gen. iii. 7. 
 
 Cumque cognovissent 
 nudos, consuerunt folia 
 fecerunt sibi perizomata. 
 
 Anagram MATA. 
 
 se esse Ecce munus. Quo fonte est sol, 
 
 ficus, et eo efficietur suis concepta mundis 
 
 sensibus Virgo Nazaret. 
 
 FiDALMI.* 
 
 Gen. iii. 14. 
 
 Maledictus as inter omnia ani- 
 mantia, et bestias terrae. 
 
 Maria a rete non inest tenebris, 
 tasdiis ; est Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Gen. iii. 15. 
 
 Ipsa conteret caput tuum, et tu 
 insidiaberis calcaneo ejus. 
 
 Ipsa conteret caput tuum. 
 
 Et tu insidiaberis calcaneo ejus. 
 
 Ecce tu, Maria, aptius es Dei 
 potentia vincens colubri astus. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Ut acus pura noctem petit. (F.) 
 
 Ubi sitiat os Dei, cernes a nive 
 lac. (F.) 
 
 Gen. viii. 8, 9. 
 
 Emisit columbam, quae cum non Bene seu columba, Mater Jesu, 
 
 invenisset ubi requiesceret pes cum revera purissima es, sed 
 
 ejus, reversa est ad eum in virens quoque eminentissime in- 
 
 arcam. tacta. (B.) 
 
 Gen. viii. 10, 11. 
 Dimisit columbam ex area. At 
 ilia venit ad eum ad vesperam, 
 portans ramum olivae virentibus 
 foliis in ore ejus. 
 
 Observas ? In diluvio culpas Adse 
 pereunte mundo reluxit tibi, 
 Immaculata Iris nimis Formosa, 
 Mater alma Jesu. (B.) 
 
 * In future this author will be represented by a capital F. at the end of his 
 frequent anagrams, and Bonaventura da S. Rosalia, his nearest rival, by a capital B. 
 simply. '■^ 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 23 
 
 Gen. xvii. 3-5. Anagrammata. 
 
 Cecidit Abram pronus in faciem. Si respexi, o Abraha ! Pater 
 Dixitque ei Deus : Ego sum, et multorum gentium, custodi pactum 
 pactum meum tecum ; appellaberis meum, meque placebis : Benedic 
 Abraham. faciem Dei. 
 
 L. J. Caris, 1854.* 
 
 Gen. xxvili. 17. 
 
 Quam terribilis est locus iste ! vere Oh jure Immaculata, o Sion Dei 
 non est hie aliud, nisi domus Dei enite ut Sol ! Serpens reus qui illic 
 et porta caeli. stridet, abscedit. (B.) 
 
 Gen. XXX. 30. 
 
 Justum est igitur, ut aliquando Adsum Eva totus rhundi ; vigilo 
 provideam etiam domui meae. quae omittam Dei Pueri Mater ? 
 
 (F.) 
 Gen. xxxix. 4. 
 Programma. 
 Invenit Joseph gratiam coram domino suo, et ministrabat ei. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. O ! et JESV ministrabat Joseph, invenit gratiam coram Domino. 
 
 2. Metro cantabo : O mitis Joseph nomine, Maria Virgine ditatus. 
 
 3. Joseph in amore nonne ditatus .'' It, abit, commigrat amori Jesu. 
 
 4. Canam ego, Maria : Joseph tibi in ministerium de toto ornatus. 
 
 5. In motu mentis cano, o Maria ! Joseph tibi amore ardet ut ignis. 
 
 6. Dico tute, o grata Maria, non timeas boni Joseph ministerium. 
 
 7. Cur times, Domina ? Joseph ministerio beato innovat gratiam. 
 
 8. Intende, intono ; morti Joseph it Jesus Maria ambo cum gratia. 
 
 9. O ! ut cerno Jesus, Maria, Joseph, mi tibi et omni donant gratiam. 
 10. Agnus Domini io ! tonat cor ministri Joseph amat mireve beat. 
 
 1696. Fr. Christophorus Klimeccius, 
 in his Decas Decadum. 
 
 * From a manuscript penes me. See Bibliography. 
 
24 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Gen. xxxix. 6, 7. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Erat autem Joseph pulchra facie et decorus aspectu, (item ibidem et in 
 eodem versu) Injecit domina sua oculos suos in Joseph. 
 
 Anagramma Dedicatorium.* 
 
 TiBI, 
 
 SSme. Joseph, 
 
 eo ausu, vi tanta, eheu vi, vi jam ecce 
 
 Decades 
 
 Profero, Propono, Dedico 
 
 mente et actu 
 
 Minimus. 
 
 Asellus Christi. 
 Fr. Christophorus Klimeccius. 
 
 Gen. xxxix. 21. 
 Programma. 
 
 Fuit autem Dominus cum Joseph, et dedit ei gratiam in conspectu 
 principis. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. Pie canit tonat Joseph ; cum Dei gratiis cum fetu Domini Dei ut 
 princeps sum. 
 
 2. Jam piissimus Joseph id agit, conceptum Deo natum recipit, 
 fecunde nutrit. 
 
 3. Cuncti onusti Adam, pergite nisi ad pium Joseph, dicite, poscite 
 frumentum. 
 
 4. In cunctis factis sitio pauper : igitur Joseph da mi Deum in 
 ducem potentem. 
 
 5. Joseph decus, ita notum dedecus summi primi peccati, in vi 
 frangit et ponit. 
 
 * This appropriate anagram occurs in the Dedication of the author's Decas Decadum 
 on St. Joseph (Zamoscii, 1696, i2mo). There are other dedications of books which are 
 solely anagrammatic, but not inore than two or three at most. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 25 
 
 6. Jam et mi peccanti non ducit vim factis Joseph, sed regnum Dei 
 ut propitius. 
 
 7. Cast! sic ite, tam dignum concinite, Joseph intime fuit purus, 
 prope ad Deum. 
 
 8. O sancti dicti ! dicite, pangite me, me, Joseph, in partu purum 
 conditum fuisse. 
 
 9. Is Joseph non adducit peccatum sed pungit, et facit menti oriri 
 pium Jesvm. 
 
 10. Cuncti pii, ut dicitis apparet ; Joseph uni Deo confidit summe, 
 regnat summe. 
 
 1696. Fr. Christ'ophorus Klimeccius, 
 in his Decas Decadum. 
 
 Gen. xl. 9, 10. Anagramma. 
 
 Videbam coram me vitem, in qua Deus qui antea fructuose reparas 
 
 erant tres propagines, crescere arborem Matrem, elues pestes, 
 
 paulatim in gemmas, et post flores terges parem Immaculatam Vir- 
 
 uvas maturescere. ginis Conceptionem. (F.) 
 
 Gen. xli. 56. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Crescebat autem quotidie fames in omni terra ; aperuitque Joseph 
 universa horrea. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. En Pater Joseph cherub natus in terra, crevisti a Jesu merito, 
 fama, amore quoque Dei. 
 
 2. Jam ecce Joseph, ter quaterque bonus seraph : vide amore fervet, 
 animas intra urit, io. 
 
 3- Joseph inter patriarchas re, ac vere, fere e natu ibat in Jesum 
 quousque ad mortem, io. 
 
 4. Eia viri terrestres, profunde jam mente, reque cithara tubaque, 
 canam Josepho, io. 
 
 5. Heus Josephe ! qui Maria bona Matre, in vita, morte, rite, aperte, 
 fere undique coruscas. 
 
26 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 6. Charo Jesu, Ev^ quoque Marise, ter benedictus Joseph, arte pure 
 in forma ministrat. 
 
 7. Eia Christum Deum (a quo omnis vera fortuna) pascit terrae 
 Joseph ; quare bene ei erit. 
 
 8. Homo Joseph vir secundum cor, reque arteque, intra pius, festinat 
 ire Beatse Mariae. 
 
 9. Nati, ubi Jesus, Maria (necto et Joseph) hie revera semper 
 amorque fortunaque aderit. 
 
 10. Vi, vi abi, dsemon peccator; terret Joseph, terret firmus : Jesuque 
 Mariseque Hosanna. 
 
 1696. Fr. Christophorus Kllmeccius, 
 in his Decas Decadum. 
 
 Appendix Genesis. 
 
 - The following anagrams on the principal patriarchs and holy women 
 mentioned in Genesis are all from the pen of Pompeius Salvi. Being 
 excellent specimens of the anagrammatic art, I place them here as 
 connected with Biblical history, though they do not form texts. 
 
 Programmata. Anagrammata. 
 
 Adam cunctorum hominum pater. Hie porno armatur ; mundum ne- 
 
 cat. 
 
 Eva omnium viventum parens. Imposuit vae, venenum, ruinam. 
 
 Cain filius primogenitus Adas et E facie Domini plane vagus iverat 
 Evae. iste. 
 
 Ahel secundo genitus primorum Nondum vir peremptus est baculo 
 parentum. germani. 
 
 Noe Justus parens trium fratrum Perpurus et mihi, ut et his meis 
 
 Semi, Chami ac Japheti. natis hanc formavi arcam. 
 
 Lot filius Aran germani Abrahae et Anne hie a re mala fluit.? Ab igne? 
 
 Nachoris. O arrha satis. 
 
 Sara sterilis conjux Abrahas. Tu hera Isaac enixa solaberis. 
 
 Abraham Thare filius. Ah mihi, Sara flebatur. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 27 
 
 Program M ATA. 
 
 Esau primo genitus Isaaci. 
 
 Isaacus Abrahamo genitus. 
 
 Josephus Jacobi filius ex Rachele 
 uxore. 
 
 Anagram MATA. 
 
 O aspiciat sua sui germani. 
 
 Gemas unus ? Abi cara hostia. 
 
 Hel sic exuor pallio, ex hera, cui 
 obses fui. 
 
 ExoD. iii. 5. 
 
 Solve calceamentum de pedibus 
 tuis ; locus enim in quo stas, terra 
 sancta est. 
 
 ExoD. xvi. 6, 7. 
 
 In Vig. Nativ. Domini. 
 
 Hodie scietis, quia veniet Dominus 
 
 et salvabit nos, et mane videbitis 
 
 gloriam ejus. 
 
 Qui nostra nocte debet esse metus, 
 Lucis Gustos, Luna Dei, Parens 
 Immaculata ? (F.) 
 
 Ossa instate ; jubilate ; quis in- 
 cedit Nive } Deus : homo Ignem 
 Dei meruit : Ossa jubilate. (F.) 
 
 Appendix Exodi. 
 
 Moyses genitus ex tribu Levi frater Mirabilis existo ferens tutorve vera 
 Aaronis. signa. 
 
 Aaron sacerdos Dei altissimi. Os Moysi indies claret ad aras. 
 
 Levit. xii. 4. 
 
 Omne sanctum non tanget, nee 
 ingredietur in sanctuarium, donee 
 impleantur dies purificationis suas. 
 
 An nescis medium portas .'' Signen- 
 tur unice redundante perfection! 
 Innocens natus Immaculata Virgo. 
 
 (F.) 
 
 Num. xxviii. 2. 
 Oblationem meam et panes, et in- 
 censum odoris suavissimi ofFerte 
 per tempora sua. 
 
 Nosti ab ore efFerenti Ave, te de 
 purissimo sono Matrem esse, Im- 
 maculatam supponi. (F.) 
 
18 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA. 
 
 Appendix Num. 
 Programma. Anagrammata. 
 
 Caleb servum meum inducam in Ecce demum In humum intras ; 
 terram hanc. nam lucrabare. 
 
 Num. xvi. 
 Core, Dathan et Abiron cum aliis. Ohe, in loca sub terram in cadant. 
 
 Deut. i. II. 
 
 Dominus Deus patrum vestrorum Dum plures ludunt in unum, hodie 
 addat ad hunc numerum multa Matrem Immaculatam surdus 
 millia. adorat. (F.) 
 
 JosuE xviii. 8. . . 
 
 Circuite terram, et describite eam, Habentes memoriam Immaculati 
 
 ac revertimini ad me, ut hie coram Cinctorii, crescimus ad interitum ? 
 
 Domino in Silo mittam vobis Esto morietur, obediet cor Matri 
 
 sortem. Dei. (F.) 
 
 Appendix Josue. 
 
 Josue filius Nun, ductor Hebrae- Nomen a re, En stupor : sol firmus 
 orum post Moysen. obedit hujus voci. 
 
 Rahab meretrix in urbe Jericho. Si sic e nece retrahar, mihi rubor.* 
 
 JuDic. xxi. II. 
 
 Omne generis masculini et mulieres Crimen Evas liges errore succes- 
 quas cognoverunt viros interficite, sionum rete ; at futuro veneni 
 virgines autem reservate. stigmate ne violes inique Turrim 
 
 Agni. (F.) 
 
 Appendix Judicum. 
 
 Sisara praefectus militiae Jabin Es sana Jahel : ac terabras, immo 
 regis Chananaeorum. figis viri caput in arena. 
 
 Dalila meretrix in valle Sorec Sola clam crines eradis amanti ac 
 Samsonis amica. emoUis vires. 
 
 * Thjs refers to the funiculus coccineus. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 29 
 
 Ruth i. 20. Anagrammata. 
 
 Ne vocetis me Noemi (id est Ea mulierum pulcherrima, in Nati 
 pulchram), sed vocate me Mara Sui moesta passione, quem valde, 
 (id est araaram), quia amaritudine et adeo casta mente amavit, omnem 
 valde replevit me Omnipotens. decorem perdidit. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 Ruth ii. 2. 
 
 Si jubes,vadamin agrum et colligam Places digna Messis, ubi Virgo 
 spicas. Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Appendix Ruth. 
 
 Anagr. R X C* 
 Ruth Moabitis nurus Noemi. Substravi me homini noctu. 
 
 I Reg. iv. 5. 
 
 Cumque venlsset area foederis Non recorderis, quae sim } Accedet 
 Domini in castra, vociferatus est Eva, sed sontis nescia furfuris 
 omnis Israel clamoregrandi. originalis Mater Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Appendix i Reg. 
 Samuel propheta Domini exer- Hie jam puer extemplo mundior 
 cituum. vates. 
 
 Anna genitrix Samuelis prpphetae Ego jam sterilis, ah ! mox sanata 
 jam moesta. en peperi natum. 
 
 Saul filius Cis, primus rex in Infelix pulsus malis e viris arceris. 
 Israele. 
 
 David filius Isai, rex Israel post Si alias ploras, vir esfidelis juxta 
 Saulem. Deum. 
 
 Davides rex = Dei dux eras. 
 
 Saul rex =: Lux eras. S. Majoli, 
 
 Hies Caniculares. 
 
 * I have admitted this anagram, though one letter is changed, into this collection, 
 because of its ingenuity. All the anagrams quoted are pure unless otherwise stated. 
 
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 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 2 Reg. vi. 3. Anagram mata. 
 
 Et imposuerutit arcam Dei super Tu prope dans posteris unum ver, 
 plaustrum novum. Ver Immaculatum. (F.) 
 
 Appendix 2 Reg. 
 Absalom Davide et Maacha, filia Fugatus, caesarie sublimi adhassit 
 
 regis Gessur, tertius natus. 
 
 Unas Hethasus conjux Bethsabee. 
 
 Amnon primogenitus Davidis ex 
 Achinoam Jezrahelitide. 
 
 3 Reg. viii. 21. 
 
 Et constitui ibi locum arcae, in qua 
 fcEdus Domini est. 
 
 3 Reg. X. 18. 
 
 Fecit rex Salomon thronum de 
 ebore grandem, et vestivit eum 
 auro fulvido nimis. 
 
 3 Reg. xviii. 44. 
 
 Ecce nubecula, parva quasi vestigi- 
 um hominis, ascendebat de mari. 
 
 ramo, dignus stare alte. 
 
 Anagr I X C. 
 
 Vah, hie cassus est, uxor bene habet. 
 
 I, impie : cis Thamar, inde (o res 
 indigna) dehonestas cum violas. 
 
 Quis nocti finis cor obtundit Evas 
 Dies Immaculatae. (F.) 
 
 O Virgo, sed et omnium dux, o tu 
 bene ille thronus, tu errore Adami 
 efFecta immunis. (B.) 
 
 Ah, benedictus 
 bene is in vera 
 Immacukta. (B.) 
 
 Deus ! Quam 
 pace Virgo sic 
 
 Appendix 3 Reg. 
 
 Elias Thesbites vir pilosus, et zona In pace 
 pellicea accinctus renibus. 
 
 Eliseus filius Saphat propheta 
 Domini exercituum. 
 
 Salomon rex Judae. 
 
 toUitur ex Achab, et 
 Jezabel scelestis in ipsos venturus. 
 
 Hospes in puerum halitum excit 
 sola fidei vis paret. 
 
 De nox levis amor. 
 
 S. Majoli. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 31 
 
 4 Reg. ii. 25. Anagrammata. 
 
 Abiit autem inde in montem Non erubuisti me, indemnis 
 Carmeli, et inde reversus est in serenitas, Dei Mater Emerita 
 Samariam. Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 4 Reg. xviii. 5. 
 
 Post eum non fuit similis ei de Stent quideni immensi fines, 
 cunctis regibus Juda, sed neque numini fidi, ubi jubet is Leopoldus 
 in omnibus illis qui ante eum jam Austriacus, quem Carolus Vienne 
 fuerunt. genuit. 
 
 17 1 6. My St. Magnum. 
 
 Appendix 4 Reg. 
 
 Naaman praefectus militias Syrorum. Caro mea strenui fiat immunis a 
 
 lepra. 
 
 I Paralip. xvi. I. 
 
 Attulerunt igitur arcam Dei, Decurtat, devitat nocturni Erebi 
 et constituerunt earn in medio litem ter nitens una Virgo 
 tabernaculi. Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Appendix i Paralip. 
 
 Salomon Davide rege natus, et Augustum Deo Sion templum 
 cunctorum sapientissimus. sacras, te non recte vanis diis. 
 
 2 Paralip. vii. 12-16. 
 Programma. 
 
 Audivl orationem tuam, et elegi locum istum mihi in domum 
 sacrificii. 
 
 Si clausero caelum, et pluvia non fluxerit, et mandavero et 
 praecepero locusts ut devoret terram, et misero pestilentiam in populum 
 meum ; 
 
 Conversus autem populus meus, super quos invocatum est 
 
32 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 nomen meum, deprecatus me fuerit, et exquisierit faciem meam, et 
 egerit poenitentiam a viis suis pessimis ; et ego exaudiam de caelo, et 
 propitius ero peccatis eorum, et sanabo terram eorum. 
 
 Oculi quoque mei sunt aperti, et aures mese erectae ad orationem 
 ejus, qui in loco isto oraverit ; 
 
 Elegi enim, et sanctificavi locum istum, ut sit nomen meum ibi 
 in sempiternum, et permaneant oculi mei, et cor meum ibi cunctis 
 diebus. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Illustrissimus Dominus Franciscus Wenceslaus, Sac. Rom. Imp. Comes 
 de Trautmonstorff et Weinberg, vere benevolus Fundator immo Pater 
 summas et veras Matri de Gratiis Jesu ei super montem Olivetarum 
 intra Civitatem Litomislium erexit multo sumptu opeque operosam 
 vere eximiam et summe celebrem Ecclesiam Summo Pontifice 
 Clemente XI. eo jam e vivis : et in vivis Innocentio Will. 
 pie imperante, pio Caesare Carolo VP" eodem Rege Inclytae 
 Boemiae : Voveo itaque ut maneat base Ecclesia recenter erecta ter qua- 
 terque Clementi et mitissimo Patrono perpetuum atque asternum 
 apud posteros omnes post septuaginta Olympiades duraturum Monu- 
 mentum. 
 
 MDCCCVVVIIIIIII. 
 
 Probatio Literaru 
 
 M. 
 
 a 
 
 b 
 
 c 
 
 d 
 
 e 
 
 f g h i 1 m 
 
 n 
 
 
 
 I 
 
 38 
 
 4 
 
 24 
 
 9 
 
 86 
 
 5 4 I 63 16 46 
 
 S t U X. 
 
 34 49 56 3- 
 
 26 
 
 37 
 
 I 
 
 p q r 
 
 5 33 
 
 SuMMA, 557. 
 
 This remarkable anagrammatic inscription was for the Church 
 of Our Lady of Grace at Litomislium, now Leutomischl, in Bohemia. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 33 
 
 2 Paralip. ix. I. 
 Regina quoque Saba, cum audisset 
 famam Salomonis, venit ut tentaret 
 eum in aenigmatibus in Jerusalem. 
 
 EsDRAS iii. II. 
 Omnis quoque populus vocifera- 
 batur clamore magno, in laudando 
 Dominum, eo quod fundatum esset 
 templum Domini. 
 
 Nehem. ii. 15. 
 Et ascendi per torrentem nocte ; et 
 considerabam murum ; et reversus 
 veni ad portam vallis, et redii. 
 
 Esther ii^ 15. 
 Erat Formosa valde, et incredibili 
 pulchritudine, omnium oculis gra- 
 tiosa et amabilis videbatur. 
 
 Esther ii. 17. 
 Posuit diadema regni in capite 
 ejus, fecitque eam regnare in loco 
 Vasthi. 
 
 Esther iii. 14. 
 Summa autem epistolarum haec 
 fuit, ut omnes provinciae scirent, 
 et pararent se ad praedictam diem. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 Quamquam si genus (non tamen 
 usus) observet, Mater Dei semine 
 originali sit ab vae, ante fuit 
 Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Ego qui dudum non uno loco do 
 Matrem Jesu de stipite David, 
 o quam umbro quam efFero 
 Immaculatam ! non plus, non 
 plus. (F.) 
 
 Purissimus Deus nocente errore 
 terrebat ; Deus e te, Dei Matre, Poli 
 rorantes educunt Immaculatam. 
 
 (F.) 
 
 1. O Virgo Immaculata, bis reorum 
 fiducia : tu plane ilia Esther, tu 
 Maria ter dulcis Deo, tibi inde 
 nobis. (B.) 
 
 2. Immaculata Virginis Conceptio, 
 robur laudabile Matris Dei 
 juste ludibrio videat hostem 
 infernalem. (F.) 
 
 Sic modo venit in pace haec pia 
 Dei Mater : quae fulget sine 
 originis reatu. (B.) 
 
 Praecipitur tutam Immaculatae 
 Conceptionis Horam esse Festum 
 Deiparae numerandam. Est : tu 
 ride. (F.) 
 
 3 
 
34 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Esther vii. 8. 
 
 Etiam reginam vult opprimere, 
 me praesente, in domo mea. 
 
 Esther viii. 4. 
 At ille ex more sceptrum aureum 
 protendit manu, quo signum cle- 
 mentise monstrabitur. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Deiparae originem velut impuram 
 monetam nemo speret. (F.) 
 
 Qui sum Rex turbo Reginae 
 nocens ? Pudet te ? Rumpens 
 tormentum tolle Maria Immaculata. 
 
 (F.) 
 Appendix Esther. 
 Programmata. Anagrammata. 
 
 Aman filius Amadathi, de stirpe Sic vigeam fama K Ah, die alia ut 
 Agag, Carus Assuero. grassator suspendar. 
 
 Esther seu Edissa nata Abihail In sede Assueri loco Vasthi haberis 
 Judeo, fratri Mardochaei. fere data hera tarn dia. 
 
 Job xxviii. i. 
 
 Habet argentum venarum suarum Quam purus novo genere profuit 
 
 principia, et auro locus est in quo Christus ! Una lucebit, ira non 
 
 conflatur. Maculata Mater. (F.) 
 
 Job xxxix. 27. 
 Programma. 
 Numquid ad praeceptum tuum elevabitur aquila, et in arduis ponet 
 nidum suum ? 
 
 Anagramma Palmarium.* 
 En tulit Adamum : petra quid culpa subiret ? Quin vas, non unum, 
 perdidit Eva suum. 
 
 Anagrammata alia. 
 
 1. Beata nuncupatur avis mutans Evae nomen : repulit quidquid 
 deludit impurum. 
 
 2. En pepulit Eva Avis quidquid dat absconditum larva tetrum 
 venenum. 
 
 First prize in a certamen literarium. See Bibliography. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 35 
 
 3. Avis pudice pura neque bajulat tetrum mundi venenum, quod tulit 
 primus Adam. 
 
 4. Diva Volucris quadam depulit petra abditum antiquum Serpentinum 
 venenum. 
 
 5. Quan prudentissima Ave, que con virtud buena impele impuridad 
 tumultuante. 
 
 1683. Triumpho Parthenico, Mexico. 
 
 Appendix Job. 
 Programma. Anagramma. 
 
 Job vir simplex rectus, timens Deum In rebus et carne multum pateris ; 
 et recedens a malo. mox idem es Deo secli. 
 
 LIBER PSALMORUM 
 Ps. ii. 7. Anagrammata. 
 
 Dominus dixit ad me : Filius O Felix ingenium Dei, dum suo 
 meus es tu ; ego hodie genui te. gemitu a se dividet hostes. (F.) 
 
 Ps. viii. 4. 
 
 Quid est ergo homo, quod memor In assiduis quoque de eo quesitis, 
 
 es ejus ? aut filius hominis, quia gusto hodie Jesum amatorem 
 
 visitas eum, Domine } filiorum hominum. 1 7 1 6. Prap. 
 
 Ps. ix. 15. 
 Quaeretur peccatum illius, et non i. Quisne pure innocenter lucet 
 invenietur. veluti tu, Maria ? (B.) 
 
 2. Qui vult tenere ulcus putre 
 Innocenti Mariae ? (F.) 
 
 Ps. xviii. 32 
 Deus qui praecinxit me virtute, et i. Tu, o Mater Dei, et mecum pia 
 posuit immaculatam viam meam. tu Immaculata nimiumque pura 
 
 existis. (B.) 
 2. O Vicedei, apte salutantis aequum 
 pactum, eximium Matri meri- 
 tum. (F.) 
 
36 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Ps. xix. 5. 
 
 In sole posuit tabernaculum suum ; 
 et ipse tanquam sponsus procedens 
 de thalamo suo. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 O pure Immaculata, sed o quam 
 bonus et mundus, tu Caelestis 
 Sponsi propense Thalamus ! (B.) 
 
 Ps. xxvi. 8. 
 
 Domine, dilexi decorem domus tuae, 
 et locum habitationis glorise tuae. 
 
 O Dei Genitrix, Immaculata es I 
 Te habeo, Donum Dei, es lilio tuo 
 decoratum. (B.) 
 
 Ps. xxvii. 4. 
 
 Unam petii a Domino, hanc re- 
 quiram ; ut inhabitem in domo 
 Domini omnibus diebus vitse meas, 
 ut videam voluptatem Domini, et 
 visitem templum ejus. 
 
 Vivit, vivit Deus, et homo qui in 
 mundo habitare debet in Matre 
 piissima et e communi labe Adami 
 omnino indemni, Templum ita 
 summe aptum Deo vivo. (B.) 
 
 Ps. xxxii. 8. 
 
 Programma Divine Providenti^ ad Leopoldum C/Esarem. 
 
 Intellectum tibi dabo, et instruam te in via hac qua gradieris : firmabo 
 super te oculos meos. 
 
 Anagramma Rhythmicu 
 
 M. 
 
 1. Mahometi Lvnam perfidis 
 Truncabit C^sar cornibus ; 
 
 Se, votaque legitima 
 Tribuet Soli Deo. 
 
 2. Turca ruit, pacemque orat, sibi vincula vota 
 Sed ilia, Nemesim ob debitam 
 Restis honore fugit. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 37 
 
 3. Ut, re, mi, fa, Sol, la tibi C^sar musica prodest. 
 O Turce Mahometi, ubique deleti grunnito 
 Basin. 
 
 4. Anagramma Rhythmicum et Amicum consulens Abafio 
 Transilvani^ Principi ut se suaque omnia Legitimo 
 CyESARi Leopoldo tempestive subjiciat. 
 
 O ! Abafi quid morare ? 
 Tam nolim titubare ; 
 Leopoldus ecce merus, 
 Tibi est innatus herus, 
 Sic agit. 
 
 5. Anagramma in quo Genius Hungari^e Belgradum 
 Christianis invadendum offert. 
 
 Belgradum abibit Cassar ; invitat Deus, 
 
 O Turca finit, imperi molem trahens, 
 
 Voletque socios.^ 
 
 * 
 
 Ps. xxxiv. I. Anagrammata. 
 
 Benedicam Dominum in omni Non elevas mecum de seminio 
 tempore ; semper laus ejus in ore opprobrii Jesum ? Non me, Dei 
 meo. Matrem ? (F.) 
 
 Ps. xxxiv. 8. 
 
 Gustate, et videte quoniam suavis i. Ais : Genus Dei sumus. De- 
 est Dominus. vote tutat, quia emit nos. 
 
 2. Quia Deus meus suos devote 
 signat : te nimie tutat. 
 Beatus vir qui sperat in eo. Qui e Vase rapit, bonus erit. Caris. 
 
 * These five curious political and Biblical anagrams are from the Ludi Geniales 
 of G. vanden Eede, S.J., Gand., 1688, izmo. 
 
38 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 .Ps. XXXV. I. Anagrammata. 
 
 Judica, Domine, nocentes me ; ex- Geminat : Innocens sum : pugnam 
 pugna impugnantes me. Dei expecto : Veni ad me. 
 
 (MS.) L.J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 Ps, xlv. 2. 
 
 Diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis ; Veniens, sed pura nitens, ubi sola 
 propterea benedixit te Deus in steterit immaculata, ibi saepius lau- 
 aeternum et in saeculum saeculi. detur, Dei Genitrix, effecta. (B.) 
 
 Ps. xlv. 6. 
 
 Sedes tua, Deus, in sasculum saeculi ; Videte : surgit una Virgo regia Dei 
 
 virga directionis virga regni tui. sui, ac lucens ut Jris, sed sine 
 
 macula. (B.) 
 
 Ps. xlv. 9. 
 
 Astitit regina a dextris tuis in Tuta vivat, Genitrix Dei, tui casta 
 
 vestitu deaurato, circumdata varie- virtutis sedes, at errore Adami 
 
 tate. intacta. (B.) 
 
 Ps. xlv. 13. 
 
 Omnis gloria ejus filis regis ab Vincis, Immaculata Rosa, ibi feli- 
 
 intus, in fimbriis aureis, circum- cissime vires, ubi a!nguis torvi et 
 
 amicta varietatibus. irati rabiem frangis. (B.) 
 
 Ps. xlviii. I. 
 
 Magnus Dominus et laudabilis ; Virgo lucidissima, nonne Civitas 
 
 nimis, ift civitate Dei nostri, in Dei intus munita ? Omni labe stes 
 
 monte sancto ejus. tota indemnis. (B.) 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 39 
 
 The next anagram, which contains 1328 letters, is the longest 
 prose anagram 1 have met with, although it falls far short of some verse 
 anagrams, one of which reaches to over 4000 letters. These latter are, 
 however, not Biblical, and therefore belong to another section. The 
 author does not reveal his name. Indeed, there is not a word of preface 
 or comment, only the anagram and a rather remarkable title-page, 
 which I give in full : — 
 
 aD fVneraLIa 
 
 ET 
 
 eXeqVIas 
 serenIssIMI 
 eLeCtorIs. 
 
 mdccxxvi 
 
 VIgesIMa seXta 
 
 febrVarII 
 
 oCCIDentIs. 
 
 mdccxxvi 
 
 aC sVIs, Vt petebat parentIbVs 
 
 seCVnda MartII 
 
 apposItI. 
 
 mdccxxvi 
 
 TheatrVM DoLorls 
 
 tVI ELeCtorIs 
 
 EVropae Honoris, 
 
 HostlbVs terrorls. 
 
 MDCCXXVI 
 
 hVJVs flDI AnIMa. 
 ReqVIesCat In paCe perpetVa ! 
 
 MDCCXXVI 
 
 At Beati Isti, qui in Domino moriuntur ! 
 loi 117 20827949 183 789 
 
 1726 
 MoNACHii, Typis Joannis Lvc^ Stravb 
 
 Two leaves folio, last page blank. 
 
40 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Ps. li. 
 
 I. Miserere mei, o Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam ; 
 a. Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum, dele iniquitatem 
 meam. 
 
 3. Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea, et a peccato meo munda me. 
 
 4. Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosce, et peccatum meum 
 contra me est semper. 
 
 5. Tibi soli peccavi, et malum coram te feci ; ut justificeris in ser- 
 monibus tuis, et vincas cum judicaris. 
 
 6. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum, et in peccatis concepit 
 me mater mea. 
 
 7. Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti ; incerta et pcculta sapientise tuae 
 manifestasti mihi. 
 
 8. Asperges me hysopo, et mundabor ; lavabis me, et super nivem 
 dealbabor. 
 
 9. Auditui meo dabis gaudium etlaetitiam, et exultabunt ossa humiliata. 
 
 10. Averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis, et omnes iniquitates meas dele. 
 
 11. Cor mundum crea in me, o Deus, et spiritum rectum innova in 
 visceribus meis. 
 
 1 2. Ne projicias me a facie tua, et spiritum sanctum tuum ne auferas a me. 
 
 13. Redde mihi laetitiam salutaris tui, et spiritu principali confirma me. 
 
 14. Docebo iniquos vias tuas ; et impii ad te convertentur. 
 
 15. Libera me de sanguinibus, Deus, Deus salutis meae ; et exultabit 
 lingua meajustitiam tuam. 
 
 16. Domine, labia mea aperies ; et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam. 
 
 1 7- Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium, dedissem utique ; holocaustis non 
 delectaberis. 
 
 18. Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus ; cor contritum et humiliatum, 
 Deus, non despicies. 
 
 19. Benigne fac, Domine, in bona voluntate tua Sion, ut asdificentur 
 muri Jerusalem. 
 
 20. Tunc acceptabis sacrificium justitiae, oblationes et holocausta ; tunc 
 imponent super altare tuum vitulos. 
 
 Requiem asternam dona ei, Domine ; et lux perpetua luceat ei ! 
 Requiescat in pace. Amen, 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 41 
 
 In Psalmum li. 
 
 Anagramma 
 
 et plene purum et bene precatorium. 
 
 Absolve quaesumus, O Domine Deus, Animam Famuli Tui Maxi- 
 MiLiANi Emanvelis, utriusquc Bavariae et Superioris Palatinatus 
 Ducis, Comitis Palatini Rheni, Sacri Romani Imperii Archi-Dapiferi, 
 et Electoris, Landgravii Leuchtenbergae, utpote Quae tam Sanctis 
 Sacramentis, quam omnibus Benedictionibus, etiam ab Archi-Episcopo 
 Coloniensi, Nato Ea suo munita, Eadem et dissolvi, et Tibi se, se beata 
 uniri, summis ecce ! Cum desideriis cupiens, ac die vigesima sexta 
 Februarii deinde decedens erat ; ut et Defunctus Sasculo, Tibi vivat, 
 et quae ex fragilitate humanae conversationis commisit, Tu venia 
 misericordisslmae pietatis absterge ; atque concede, ut Qui Tua con- 
 stitutione non tantum Princeps istius mundi : at etiam Elector fuit, 
 Cujus virtutem ac incomparabilem pro Religione laborem Tu optima 
 annotasti, Tuo etiam en ! munere jam sit cum Electis in Coelo ! Et ut 
 lUe, quia ab imis et summis amatus, ac eis quibuscunque adeo 
 benificus : sicut Is nomine Maximvs, nomine et Emanvel, ita 
 et omine fuit ; et quia Te amans, et sperans in Te credidit, hodie in 
 pace sit Locus Ejus ! Accipias ita et mansuetum Hunc ac optimum 
 Eum Principem et Heroem Ilium omnibus numeris absolutissimum, ac 
 spem ecce ! et firmam Ecclesiae Tuas Columnam, et Serenissimae Domus 
 Tuas, ac subditorum unicum solatium, non minus Pium simul ac 
 Pacatum, et Tibi ecce ! et Amantissimas Matri Tuae fidelem Filium, sive 
 addictissimum talem Famulum, ad Dexteram Tuam, et in Electorum 
 Tuorum Consortium ; ut quemadmodum laudem et gloriam Tuam 
 summo cum studio in cuncta Vita sua quaesivit et propagavit, jam ibi 
 Te laudet, ut Te Benedicat et Te prasdicat in aeternum. Amen. 
 
42 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 Ps. li. I, 4. Ana6rammata. 
 
 Miserere mei, Deus, secundum Si bene scelera teque in viam 
 magnam misericordiam tuam ; revoces ? Misericordiam faciam, 
 quia tibi soli peccavi, et malum mirum te diligam, pactum meum 
 coram te feci. custodiam. 
 
 1 7 1 6. Praparatto et grat. actio. 
 
 Ps. li. 20. 
 
 Benigne fac, Domine, in bona 
 voluntate tua Sion, ut aedificentur 
 muri Jerusalem. 
 
 O ! Lenta fervens Buda ! non 
 facili manu et igne domita ! 
 cineribus vane tumet. 
 
 1689. G. VANDEN EeDE, S,J. 
 
 Ps. Iv. 6. 
 
 Volabo et requiescam.* 
 
 Coelo beatorum quies. 
 
 1606. Fr. Bencius, S.J. 
 
 2. (In Assumptione B. V. M.) 
 
 II I 12 18 s 7 4 8 17 16 2 10 3 13 15 14 9 6 
 Quum beata coelis ero. 
 
 Christophorus Finottus, 
 Parnassi Violte, Venet., 1619, 8vo. 
 
 * The two earliest Biblical anagrams. It certainly is a curious fact that the 
 second earliest text anagram that I have been able to discover is from the same verse 
 of the Bible and in exactly the same words as the first ; and still stranger is it that 
 there should be so long an interval as thirteen years between the two. How was it 
 that no Jesuit ventured on this field, even when a brother Jesuit had made such an 
 excellent premier pas — or, at least, delayed venturing for such a very long period ? 
 The second man, Finotti, was not a Jesuit, and the peculiar figuring of his anagram 
 was in vogue only for a short time. It will be observed that the figures i, 2, 3, etc., 
 refer to the letters of the programma, "Volabo et requiescam." 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 43 
 
 Ps. Ixx. I. Anagrammata. 
 
 Deus,in adjutorium meum intende; Tu Numen da Dondi manum ; 
 Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina. Dondi mersum vitiis emunda ; ei 
 
 fave ; da ei Te. (F.) 
 
 Ps. Ixxi. 5. 
 
 Quoniam tu es, Domine, spes 
 mea. 
 
 1. Nam quies mea, Deus omni- 
 potens. 
 
 2. Inquieta es mundo, o spes mea. 
 1680. P. F. Caspar Laugier. 
 
 Ps. Ixxi. 8. 
 
 Repleatur os meum laude, ut Tu, Virgo et Mater, nites Immacu- 
 cantem gloriam tuam, tota die lata Gemma ; te modo laudant 
 magnltudinem tuam. Dei lumen, at purum. (B.) 
 
 Ps. Ixxii. 7, 8. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Orietur in diebus ejus justitia et abundantia pacis, donee auferatur 
 luna. Et dominabitur a mari usque ad mare, et a flumine usque 
 ad terminos orbis terrarum. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Austria dum Caesar Turcas avertet ; et ultra 
 
 Sarmatias fines obvius arma feret. 
 Danubium is Budse, Dra,vi qui puniet undas 
 
 Nilique edomiti, non erit orbe minor. 
 
 C. VANDEN EeDE, S.J., 
 
 Laurus Austriaca^ 1689, 4to. 
 
 Ps. Ixxii. 8. 
 
 Et dominabitur a mari usque ad 
 
 usque 
 
 mare. 
 
 et 
 
 flumi 
 
 me 
 
 ad 
 
 terminos orbis terrarum. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Qui ab urbe tam rara assumetur 
 ad Fretum, erit quidem Austrie 
 Dominus nomine Leo. 
 
 1716. My St. Mag. 
 
44 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Ps. Ixxiii. 24. 
 
 Tenuisti manum dexteram meam, 
 et in voluntate tua deduxisti me, 
 ut cum gloria suscepisti me. 
 
 Ps. Ixxvlii. 69. 
 Et aedificavit sanctificium suum, in 
 terra quam fundavit in sascula. 
 
 Ps. Ixxxiv. I, 2. 
 Quam dilecta tabernacula tua, 
 Domine virtutum ! Concupiscit, et 
 deficit anima mea in atria Domini. 
 
 Ps. Ixxxiv. 
 abjectus 
 
 esse 
 
 10. 
 
 in domo Dei 
 habitare in 
 
 Elegi 
 
 mei, magis quam 
 
 tabernaculis peccatorum. 
 
 Ps. Ixxxv. I. 
 
 Benedixisti, Domine, terram tuam ; 
 avertisti captivitatem Jacob. 
 
 Ostende 
 cordiam tuam 
 da nobis. 
 
 Ps. Ixxxv. 7. 
 nobis, Domine, 
 
 miseri- 
 et salutare tuum 
 
 Ps. Ixxxv. 10. 
 Misericordia et Veritas obviaverunt 
 sibi ; justitia et pax osculatas sunt. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Si Semper Immaculata et sic, mi 
 Deus, enitens Mater tua in re 
 exulto, tu et gaudium mundi 
 exto. (B.) 
 
 Maria Immaculata eiFecta tua 
 fiducia uti Iris usque nunc diu 
 nitens. (B.) 
 
 O mi Domine, unica Mater 
 
 tua fit Candida pura et intacte 
 
 Immaculata : ibi dulciter omnia 
 quiescunt. (B.) 
 
 Maria, ter egregie sine macula 
 concepta lumen Domus Dei est : 
 ah ibi stabo, ibi quiescam. (B.) 
 
 Bone Jesu, tibi rite datur Mater, 
 a peccato Adami extitit immunis. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 De Sion ostendet nobis Immacu- 
 latam Matrem : ibi in vos adoretur 
 Deus. (B.) 
 
 Obviet tibi ut lux ista Maria, 
 errorisve Adas intacta sinu suo te 
 
 suscipiet. (B.) 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMAtlCUM 45 
 
 Ps. Ixxxvii. I, 2. 
 
 Fundamenta ejus in montibus 
 Sanctis. Diligit Dominus portas 
 Si on super omnia tabernacula 
 Jacob. 
 
 Ps. Ixxxvii. I, 2. 
 
 Fundamenta ejus in montibus 
 Sanctis. Diligit Dominus portas 
 Si on super omnia tabernacula 
 Jacob. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Bona Virgo, tunc fudisti lucem de 
 tanto Paradiso : nonne purissima 
 abibis, nonne sistis Immaculata ? 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Nunc stabis insignis Austriaca 
 Domus, firma per Leopoldinam 
 constantiam : non abibis, tu Deo 
 vives.* 
 
 1667. Ephraim Ign. Naso' 
 (Adv. juris). 
 
 Ps. 
 
 Sicut laetantiu 
 est in te. 
 
 Ixxxvii. 7. 
 im omnium 
 
 abitatio 
 
 Ps. 
 
 Misericordias 
 cantabo. 
 
 Ixxxix. 
 Domini 
 
 I. 
 in 
 
 asternum 
 
 Tuto sibi non timet si a te venit 
 Immaculata. (B.) 
 
 1. Cor Mariae non subest crimine 
 ditioni Adam. 
 
 2. Orti Mater Dei sub caeno 
 criminis Adami .'' Non. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 The next long anagram overleaf on the whole of Psalm xci. is a 
 good example of the art, and what is very exceptional, it is composed by 
 a layman. It is pleasing to notice that when they do put in an appearance, 
 they rise to the occasion. The author of the following anagram seems to 
 have been Chief Commissioner for the Salt Tax and Salt Works in the 
 province of Bohemia. He was a patriotic Catholic and a devoted adherent 
 to Leopold and the Imperial family. This is his sole appearance in this 
 Biblia, but he makes a creditable anagram on the whole Te Deum, and will 
 therefore appear, if the curtain rises, in my Breviarium Anagrammatkum. 
 
 * From Fhcenix Redivivus, etc., autore Ephr. Ign. Nasone, pp. xiv, 336, 
 Vratislaviae, 1667, 4to. 
 
46 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Ps. xci. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Imperator Leopoldvs devotisslme psallens : 
 
 1. Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi, in protectione Dei coeli 
 commorabitur. 
 
 2. Dicet Domino : Susceptor meus es tu et refugium meum ; Deus 
 meus, sperabo in eum, 
 
 3. Quoniam ipse liberabit me de laqueo venantium, et verbo aspero. 
 
 4. Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis. 
 
 5. Scuto circumdabit te Veritas ejus ; non timebis a timore nocturno ; 
 
 6. A sagitta volante in die, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, ab 
 incursu, et dsemonio meridiano. 
 
 7. Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem millia a dextris tuis ; ad te 
 autem non appropinquabit. 
 
 8. Verumtamen oculis tuis considerabis, et retributionem peccatorum 
 videbis, 
 
 9. Quoniam tu es, Domine, spes mea ; Altissimum posuisti refugium 
 tuum. 
 
 10. Non accedet ad te malum, et flagellum non appropinquabit 
 tabernaculo tuo, 
 
 11. Quoniam angelis suis mandavit de te, ut custodiant te in omnibus 
 viis tuis. 
 
 12. In manibus portabunt te, ne forte offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum. 
 
 13. Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis, et conculcabis leonem et 
 draconem. 
 
 14. Quoniam in me speravit, liberabo eum ; protegam eum, quoniam 
 cognovit nomen meum. 
 
 1 5. Clamabit ad me, et ego exaudiam eum ; cum ipso sum in tribulatione ; 
 eripiam eum, et glorificabo eum. 
 
 16. Longitudine dierum replebo eum, et ostendam illi salutare meum. 
 
 Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto ; sicut erat in principio, et 
 nunc, et semper, et in secula seculorum. Amen. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 47 
 
 Anagramma in Psalmum xci. 
 Devs, Imperatorem psallentem anagrammatice alloqvens : 
 
 Leopolde, Fili mi, noli timere ; Ego, 'Deus tuus, bene mihi placuit 
 
 oratio tua. 
 
 Age, cape arma mea audacter, contra Saracenos, inimicos meos. 
 
 Posuisti enim spem tuam in me, Deum ; ideo non confunderis, sed 
 
 superabis eos. Manus mea penes te manebit, et castra Turcarum magis 
 
 timebunt fortitudinem meam. 
 
 Angeli venient de coelo tibi succurrentes in timorem Inimicorum tuorum. 
 
 Auxilium Altissimi sentient, quia Protector tuus sum. 
 
 Ecce, assurgent abunde in te castra, et Ego Adjutor tuus. 
 
 Non timebis quemquam, inimici autem fugient a facie tua. 
 
 Quia Dominum Deum tuum times, eris Terror omnibus. 
 
 Propter pietatem tuam propitius ero populo tuo. Ego liberabo eum de 
 
 manibus inimicorum. 
 
 Millia millium cadent infidelium, quia Deum suum non agnoscebant. 
 
 Dum ad me clamabas, Dominus meus et Deus es tu. 
 
 Et sperasti in me. Ego adjuvi te in tribulatione et necessitate. 
 
 Scio peccata populi ; propter quae virgam ostendi. 
 
 Misericors sum, misereor populi tui ad me clamantis. 
 
 Liberabo te ab omnibus malis et a periculis omnibus belli. 
 
 Rebelles meos, Leopolde, patefaciam, stabunt ante te, poenitebunt, 
 
 plorabunt peccata. 
 
 Non valebunt vires inimicitiae : denique abibunt, nee oppositio erit 
 
 ultra. Aquilte tua blando modo proxime cantabunt vota, laudabunt me. 
 
 Filii quos tibi dedi, Ortum Salts videbunt. I ! invade Gentes : peribunt, 
 
 obibunt. 
 
 Probatio Literarum. 
 
 ABCDEFGHI LMNOP 
 
 «8 35 :>,(> 33 129 8 12 I 123 38 75 71 71 33 
 Q R S TUX 
 
 9 51 67 93 97 2. SuMMA, 1072. 
 
 1684. J. Ph. Popp, Frcefectus Salts, Praga. 
 
48 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Anagrammata, 
 Extat vere Immaculata, fitque 
 clarum divinum opus : advenlet 
 nobis ut bona Mater. (B.) 
 
 Maria erit sibi Sol, Stella, Iris in 
 omni labe mundissima. (B.) 
 
 Mos studentis ad discendum 
 medium dicat, obtento Decreto 
 intuitu Filii Unigeniti non macu- 
 latam Mariam. (F.) 
 
 Vivit Immaculata Jesu Mater : 
 
 Ps. xcii. 4. 
 Quia delectasti me, Domine, in 
 factura tua ; et in operibus manuum 
 tuarum exuJtabo. 
 
 Ps. xciii. 4. 
 Mirabiles elationes maris ; mirabilis 
 in altis Dominus. 
 
 Ps. xciii. 5. 
 Testimonia tua credibilia facta sunt 
 nimis. Domum tuam decet sancti- 
 tudo, Domine, in longitudinem 
 dierum. 
 
 Ps. xcvii. 6. 
 Annunciaverunt coeli justitiam 
 
 ejus ; et viderunt omnes populi nonne divine in ipso lucens viget 
 gloriam ejus. ut purior sole. (B.) 
 
 Ps. xcvlii. I. 
 Cantate Domino canticum novum, quia mirabilia fecit. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. Nunc ob me, o quanta amicitia ! Luctum jam finit Dei Caro. 
 
 2. Acciti e comi Dei filio, o quantum amabunt Incarnatum. 
 
 3. O Amici mei, quanti fit culti Caro Dei ? Nunc Natum amabo. (F.) 
 
 Ps. xcviii. I. 
 Salvavit sibi dextera ejus et brachium. 
 
 Conjecture*: Anagrammatic^, et Chronicle de Magno 
 Turcarum Domino. 
 
 1. HIC VIr a se et a sVbDItIs, MaLe VeXabltVr. 
 
 2. Ab his aCIe, arMIs, Vita eXVtVs DeLebltVr.* 
 
 1685. G. VANDEN EeDE. 
 
 * No. 2 was left out in 1689, Laurus Austriaca, as unfulfilled. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 49 
 
 Ps. ci. I, 2. 
 
 Psallam, et intelligam in via imma- 
 culata. Quando venies ad me ? 
 
 Ps. ci. 3. 
 
 Non proponebam ante oculos meos 
 rem injustam. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 En gemma ilia sine macula inno- 
 tuit, ilia, quam pie Deus adamat. 
 
 Nos, o Parens, bene unis 
 Immaculate memento. (B.) 
 
 pro 
 
 Ps. ci. 6. 
 
 Oculi meiadfidelesterrae,utsedeant Ah Mater forma Dei millies Im- 
 
 mecum ; ambulans in via immacu- maculata, en tibi serviam, ut can- 
 
 lata, hie mihi ministrabat. didus tecum inhabitem in saecula. 
 
 cvi. 
 
 Quis loquetur potentias Domini ? 
 auditas faciet omnes laudes ejus ? 
 
 Ps. cix. I. 
 Deus, laudem meam ne tacueris. 
 
 Ps. cix. 29, 30. 
 Induantur qui detrahunt mihi 
 pudore, et operiantur sicut diploide 
 confusione sua ! Confitebor Domi- 
 no nimis in ore meo, et in medio 
 multorum laudabo eum. 
 
 Ps. cxi. 4, 5. 
 
 Memoriam fecit mirabilium suo- 
 rum, misericors ; et miserator Do- 
 minus escam dedit timentibus se. 
 
 Quis ? Tu ea es, o Dei Parens, 
 sed undique in toto fulsisti, o 
 Immaculata ! (B.) 
 
 1. Cum ludas Evam, en Dei Mater 
 es. 
 
 2 . Nude emacules Dei Vas, Matrem. 
 
 (F-) 
 
 Hue Dondi Episcope : Nonne e 
 tuo Infulato muro intendis dudum 
 noto honoris nido ? Ab injuriis 
 ultro, devoteque profiteri jubemur 
 Dei Matrem Immaculatam. (F.) 
 
 Mundi Femur, Ros Trunci Jesse 
 satis disjicies me timori ob Immacu- 
 latum Rorem, id est ob me Matrem. 
 
 (F-) 
 
 4 
 
50 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Ps. cxiii. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Laudate, pueri, Dominum ; laudate nomen Domini. 
 
 Sit nomen Domini benedictum ex hoc nunc, et usque in saeculum ! 
 
 A solis ortu usque ad occasum laudabile nomen Domini. 
 
 Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus, et super coelos gloria ejus. 
 
 Quis sicut Dominus Deus noster, qui in altis habitat, 
 
 Et humilia respicit in coelo et in terra .'' 
 
 Suscitans a terra inopem, et de stercore erigens pauperem, 
 
 Ut collocet eum cum principibus, cum principibus popuH sui ; 
 
 Qui habitare facit sterilem in domo, matrem filiorum laetantem. 
 
 Anagramma Mari^ Rosalia Archiduciss^ Austria sacrum. 
 
 Austriacus Sanguis, Rosa blanda, Rosalia, flore 
 
 Id Pater Augustus, Margaris idque cupit. 
 O Rosa ! Tu cunctum de Lumine concipe Lumen 
 
 .Nil nisi conspicuum, nil nisi Lumen habe. 
 Multum complebit de Te, Lux limpida, Mundum, 
 
 Laetitiae immensae quisque stupebit opus. 
 Luce tua, immensum momentum hie sentiet Orbis, 
 
 Hac, idem imo decus, Principe Te, Orbis alet. 
 lo, concinne, nitide io, sitque sonetque ! 
 
 IVlire Lux veniet Nomine, crede, Tuo. 
 O ample Hispanas Turres, Rosa, Flore coronas ! 
 
 Si DoMvi Avstriac^ perstet et inde decor ! 
 
 Probatio Literaru 
 
 M. 
 
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 SUMMA, 412. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Laurentius Baptista, SJ., 
 
 
 
 
 
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VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 51 
 
 Ps. cxviii. I, 2. 
 
 Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes ; 
 laudate eum, omnes populi. 
 Quoniam confirmata est super 
 nos misericordia ejus ; et Veritas 
 Domini manet in aeternum. 
 
 Ps. cxvii. I. 
 
 Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes ; 
 laudate eum, omnes populi. 
 
 Anagramma in laudem 
 Leopoldi. 
 
 O Magne, mundum si canam 
 
 laudis tuas, 
 Leopolde, Metam, et totus et 
 
 in uno situ 
 Nequeas reponi, Mirus es, Major 
 
 micans, 
 De jure Pa trio, terminans finem 
 
 Deo. 
 1689. G. vanden Eede, S.J. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 Lente, senes ! Deus gaudet, nam 
 Eum appello omnium Dominum. 
 L. J. Caris. 
 
 Ps. cxvii. 2. 
 
 Quoniam confirmata est super 
 nos misericordia ejus ; et Veritas 
 Domini manet in aeternum. 
 
 Atria Inferi ! notate poenas. 
 Quoniam Deus,Veruset IVIisericors 
 mentiri nescit, amo Dominum. 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 Ps. cxviii. 19, 20. 
 
 Aperite mihi portas justitiae, in- 
 gressus in eas, confitebor Domino. 
 Hsec porta Domini, justi intrabunt 
 in eam. 
 
 Oh sedes, ita pura benignissimi 
 Dei, oh in toto venias intacta, ubi 
 errore primi parentis in toto facta 
 immunis. (B.) 
 
 Ps. cxix. 81. 
 
 Defecit in salutare tuum anima Dei nutu bene Immaculata 
 
 mea : et in verbum tuum veni, semperve futura ut Mater 
 supersperavi. purissima. (B.) 
 
52 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Ps. cxix. 82. Anagrammata. 
 
 Defecerunt oculi mei in eloquium Ecce omnis decor Domini refulsi, 
 
 tuum, dicentes : Quando con- cum undequaque in toto vult me 
 
 solaberis me ? sine labe. (B.) 
 
 Ps. cxxvii. 5. 
 Non confundetur cum loquetur 
 inimicis suis in Porta. 
 
 Joannes Polonus, fortis, Turcum 
 vincendum inquirit. 
 
 Anon.. 1684. Vienna pro soluto 
 Othomanico obsidio plausus. 
 
 Ps. cxxx. I, 2 
 
 De profundis clamavi ad 
 
 Domine 
 
 meam. 
 
 te, E profundis ad me nimie clamando, 
 Domine, exaudi vocem exaudio Vocem tuam. Dedi me. 
 
 L. J. Caris. 
 
 Ps. cxxxii. 8. 
 
 Surge, Domine, in requiem tuam, 
 tu et area sanctificationis tuee. 
 
 Jesu noster ! ecce Virgo Maria, 
 tui quies nam fuit in Adam 
 intacta. (B.) 
 
 Ps. cxxxii. 17, 18. 
 Programma. 
 Paravi lucernam Christo meo. 
 
 Inimicos ejus induam confusione : super ipsum autem efflorebit 
 sanctificatio mea. 
 
 Anagramma 
 
 IN JOSEPHUM ReGEM HuNGARI^ LeOPOLDI FILIUM. 
 
 O Joseph, in te Domus inclinata recumbit 
 Austria ! plus vivo fac nomine et omine 
 Jesv. 
 Prescas ! cui famam primi offer. 
 
 G. vanden Eede, S.J. 
 
 1689. Laurus Austriaca. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 5J 
 
 Ps. cxlix. I. 
 
 Program ma. 
 
 Laus ejus in ecclesia sanctorum. 
 
 Anagrammata, 
 cum achrostichide in laudem s. nic. tolentinatis. 
 S ic a luce mire natus Nicolaus es 
 A mica luce in carne sol Justus es. 
 N ectar jejunas, o sic almus luces 
 C ernas Nicolai laus cum Jesu est 
 T unc solus Cliens Jesu ac Mariae. 
 
 V eni clare mi, Castus Nicolaus es. 
 S olvis tu, cerne, sic animas e lacu. 
 
 N eo-Arca cum Jesu vincis Stellas 
 
 I esu Amicus et Nicolaus clarens 
 
 C urio e Jesu lucens locat animas. 
 
 O rcum en vincis, ac visa es Stella 
 
 L actas jejunans, eccum resolvis, 
 
 A nimas solvit e luce se crucians. 
 
 V incit Elementa, coruscas aulis 
 
 S al acer natus unice colis Jesum. 
 
 T uum cor calens, en vias sic sal ei 
 
 reus, ecce vis mala ei insultans. 
 L ilia cum rosis, ecce una ut sanes 
 E n neci assati volucres cum alis. 
 N icola in cursu es, lactas Jesum 
 
 T unc lucens ei sol Jesus ac Maria 
 
 1 t cursu ales viam, coelis canens 
 N ovi vias, ecce rus stella micans 
 A Ime astro lucens sic vivi scena 
 
 S itiens crucis oscula, vale. Amen. 
 
 1693. A. C. Redelius, 
 in Anathema S. Nic. Tolentinati Sacrum, 
 Monachii, [1693,] 4to. 
 
54 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Appendix to Psalms. 
 Anagrammatic Sentences and Responses from the Psalms 
 
 CONTAINED IN AN AnAGRAMMATIC RoSARY (ifo) BY PoMPEIUS 
 
 Salvi,* Genuae, 1665. 
 
 Progr. Tu autem, Domine, susceptor meus es. 
 Anagr. E morte me desumis, ac tu potes unus. 
 
 Exaudivit me, Deus, justltlae meas. 
 Ex Evae vitiis me demit ad se. Vivat. 
 
 Non, Deus, volens iniquitatem tu es : 
 Et eo Justus non delinquet animus. 
 
 Convertere, Domine, et eripe animam meam 
 E dasmonum rete, ne peream inimica morte. 
 
 Destruas inimicum et ultorem. 
 E mundi mortis ulcere tuta sim. 
 
 Quasretur peccatum illius, et non invenietur. 
 Munita eruitur, conceptaque sine lue nil ruet. 
 
 Oculi ejus in pauperem respiciunt. 
 Pro primis Evae culpis unice venit. 
 
 Tu, Domine, servabis me a generatione hac. 
 Hoc merite, Deus, tus Mariae non negabis. 
 
 Omnes declinaverunt, simul inutiles facti sunt. 
 
 Si cuncti tales sunt ; non filia Dei ; sum re ut lumen. 
 
 Ingreditur sine macula. 
 Regina munda lucet Iris. 
 
 Dominus a dextris est mihi, ne commovear. 
 Dum hie insons e mortis Adae metu eximor. 
 
 * Cf. Bibliography. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 55 
 
 P. Eripe animam meam ab impio. 
 A. Me pia ambi ope ; minima * eram. 
 
 Posuit immaculatam viam meam. 
 Sic me jam puto vivam tam almam. 
 
 Domine, adjutor meus, et redemptor meus, 
 Dum tu ostendis me e morte demi, ero pura. 
 
 Protegat te nomen Dei Jacob. 
 En digne raptam e toto obice. 
 
 Magna est gloria ejus in salutari tuo : 
 Tu regis eam ut salvas original! nota. 
 
 Erue de manu canis unicam meam. 
 I, ne cum immunda Eva cernas eam. 
 
 Dominus regit me, et nihil mihi deerit. 
 Edite mihi hymnos laeti ; re dignum erit. 
 
 Super flumina praeparavit eam. 
 Pure fluens mea Maria apparuit. 
 
 Custodi animam meam et erue me : 
 Edoce memet ; sum enim tua Maria. 
 
 Ne perdas cum impiis, Deus, animam meam. 
 Sed i, me in primam pacem Dei manu sumas. 
 
 Ne simul trahas me cum peccatoribus. 
 At puram tu hie clemens eximas rubo. 
 
 Dominus diluvium Inhabitare facit. 
 
 Ab hoc mei Filii nutu munda rui, id sat. 
 
 Salvasti me a descendentibus in lacum. 
 
 Et sic debes ; nam insum, Deus, ancilla tua. 
 
 Mirificavit misericordiam suam mihi, 
 Dum is hie firmavit Trim, io, reis amicam. 
 
 * i.e. humillima. 
 
56 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 P. Non est in spiritu ejus dolus ; 
 A. Sed initio notus purus, lenis. 
 
 Misericordia Domini plena est terra, 
 I dest Maria sine crimine te plorando. 
 
 In Domino laudabitur anima mea. 
 Ab omni malo munda ; ita divina re. 
 
 Die animae mese : Salus tua ego sum. 
 A noxa, metusve summas legis Adami. 
 
 Manus peccatoris non moveat me, 
 Unam in campo, ut casteros omnes.* 
 
 Eruet eam a peccatoribus, 
 Pater, sic ab Eva, ecu morte. 
 
 Tu exaudies me, Domine, Deus meus, 
 Dum e dumis Evse sic notae desumes. 
 
 Vane conturbatur omnis homo ; 
 Nam justa hoc metu non obruor. 
 
 Dominus eduxit me de lacu miserias et de luto fascis, 
 Dum e toto Evae crimine illaesam fecit. Decus istud Dei. 
 
 Non gaudebit inimicus meus super me, 
 Dum vitans omne crimen, subegi pejus. 
 
 Susceptor meus es, 
 Moeste percussus. 
 
 Discerne causam meam de gente non sancta. 
 Ne casu sic ante negans me decoram, damnet. 
 
 Tota die verecundia mea contra me est, 
 Si nee tuta in rete, mortemve Adae cado. 
 
 Concupiscet rex decorem tuum. 
 Eum ex cunctis pro certo f ducem. 
 
 * sup. movet. t ceteris. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 57 
 
 P. Adjuvabit earn Deus mane diluculo ; 
 A. Neu diabolus Divam, cesium videat. 
 
 Deus sedet super sedem sanctam suam. 
 Sedes est Mater dudum expansa Jesu. 
 
 Deus fundavit eam in sternum. 
 Uni * defensa Mater munda vivet. 
 
 Non videbit interitum, cum viderit sapientes morientes, 
 Sed, Dei Mater, sine omni crimine putetur, ut in se obtinuit. 
 
 P.A. Hem a mortis reatu Eruam te, et honorificabis me beneficio. 
 
 P. Benigne fac, Domine, in bona voluntate tua Sion ; 
 A. Ut non agnito beneficio, alius non abundet a me. 
 
 Ego sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei. 
 Jam felici odoro fructu egenos ditavi. 
 
 Ex omni tribulatione eripuisti me, 
 Matrem tui Jesu, Rex poli inibi note. 
 
 Dominus salvabit me, 
 Idem ab omni assultu. 
 
 P.A. Eripuisti animam meam Primum omnium et te f de morte Adae miseri. 
 
 P. Foderunt ante faciem meam foveam. 
 A. AfFerentem vim, necem fatuo Adamo. 
 
 Exaltabo mane misericordiam tuam, 
 Dum eximis me ab ara, a nocte mortali. 
 
 Inhabitabo in tabernaculo tuo in saecula. 
 Una habita albior cunctis ; an ita volo .'' bene. 
 
 In Deo salutare meum et gloria mea ; 
 Nam vi mortem elido, ast aurea lege. 
 
 * Deo. t Jesum. 
 
6o BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 P. Scitote quoniam Dominus ipse est Deus, 
 A. Qui ut mitis Sponsse omnes dedit voces. 
 
 Ambulans in via immacukta. 
 Sit una nimium alba a macula. 
 
 Initio tu, Domine, terram fundasti 
 Nitidam re virtutis, non foetidam. 
 
 Redimit de interitu vitam tuam, 
 Ut videatur mitti in Matrem Dei. 
 
 Memor fuit verbi sancti sui. 
 
 Cur .'' Ob finem Matris tui, Jesu. 
 
 P.A. Cessavit quassatio = Quasi cassa sit, veto. 
 
 P. Statuit procellam ejus in auram, 
 A. Ut saliat in summa prorae, et luci. 
 
 Cantabo et psallam in gloria mea ; 
 Nam ita libera pango : o alta lex ! 
 
 Tu, Domine, fecisti earn ; 
 Nee desit immota Jesu. 
 
 P.A. Exaltabit caput = Lex, ut capta, abit. 
 
 Magna opera Domini = Deo pango in Mariam. 
 
 P. Suscitat a terra inopem ; 
 A. Ut exponat Matri seria. 
 
 Facta est Judaea sanctificatio ejus. 
 
 Fuit ista dia, i, ac voce canta : est fas ei. 
 
 Eripuit animam meam de morte 
 Adae ; immo me puram tenet Irim. 
 
 Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes; 
 Ut angeli deam de summo sonent. 
 
 Non moriar sed vivam. 
 Sum Maria Dei ; non ruo. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 6i 
 
 P.A. Vivet anima mea Levata in te, et vi ab Adami metu, et laudabit t&. 
 
 P. Domine, libera animam meam ; 
 A. I, nam bene memor mali Adami. 
 
 Dominus custodit te ab omni malo 
 DolosOj ac tantum immundo, et ibis. 
 
 Rogate quae ad pacem sunt Jerusalem, 
 Quam pras me vetus Adas lex ignorat. 
 
 Ad te levavi oculos meos, qui habitas in caslis. 
 Quo me noxae hostilis lacu, data ibi vi, leves. 
 
 P.A. Forsitan aqua Nae satis umbrosa absorbuisset me absque * Forti. 
 
 Pax super Israel = Celsa, par superis. 
 
 P. Manducatis panem doloris. 
 A. Non Matris Dei plasma duco. 
 
 Videas bona Jerusalem. 
 Una ab almo Jesu sidere. 
 
 Benedictio Domini super vos. 
 Ob nomen ejus, ut id spero dici. 
 
 A custodia matutina usque ad noctem speret. 
 Maria tutamen, quod Deus pace se constituat. 
 
 Exaltavi animam meam. 
 Ex jam ante viam malam. 
 
 Mandavit Dominus benedictionem. 
 Ad Dominam insontem : nee vi debuit. 
 
 Omnia quaecunque voluit Dominus fecit, 
 Et quoque in unicam Filiam duce motu suo. 
 
 Si oblitus fuero tui Jerusalem, oblivioni detur dextera mea ; 
 Mater enim Jesu debes fieri, et orbi lurido lux tota-viva, ut sol. 
 
 * Deo. 
 
62 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 P. Suscepisti me de utero matris meas ; 
 A. Sed me rite primitus ex Eva moesta. 
 
 P.A. Singulariter sum ego A crimine segregata donee transeam mundo 
 lentus ros. 
 
 P. Portio mea in terra viventium. 
 A. Vere vita in porta morientium. 
 
 Persecutus est inimicus animam meam, 
 Nee is me, me vicit, ast summe pura mansi. 
 
 Eripe me, et libera me de aquis multis, 
 Et impedi, quas labem tulere miseris. 
 
 Generatio, et generatio laudabit opera tua 
 Pro Virgine a labe, ita toto Adae genere tuta. 
 
 Lauda, anima mea, Dominum. 
 Non Adam jam male avidum. 
 
 Deo nostro sit jucunda, decoraque laudatio ; 
 Quod Nato suo accelerando vota dedit viris. 
 
 Confortavit seras portarum tuarum ; 
 Ne mors, ut fur toti auro areas rumpat. 
 
 Laudate Deum, omnes angeli ejus ; 
 Is enim de lege unam ad vos levat. 
 
 BenepJacitum est Domino in populo suo, 
 Et sic me unam non dolo, opibus opplevit. 
 
 Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum, 
 Mundus poli Dominam, ut * sit reis. 
 
 Tanquam vas figuli confringes eos. 
 -Slqua, non flens, si orcum agis, fugit. 
 
 PND OF APPENDIX TO PSALMS. 
 
 * adsit, 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 62, 
 
 LIBER PROVERBIORUM 
 
 Prov. vlii. 4. Anagram MATA. 
 
 O viri, ad vos clamito, et vox mea Vide hodie si fixa solo Minorum 
 ad filios hominum. voto Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 10. 
 
 Accipite disciplinam meam, et non Magnam ametis Deiparam, quin 
 
 pecuniam; doctrinam magis quam plus igniti, cernui Immaculatam 
 
 aurum eligite. concipi docete me. (F.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 10. 
 
 Doctrinam magis quam aurum Sum nigra. Quid ergo ? Item 
 eligite. Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 12. 
 
 Ego sapientia, habito in consilio ; et Oh nosti ? Gratia virtutis Dei sim 
 •eruditis intersum cogitationibus. ego in initio subito concepta sine 
 
 labe. (B.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 13. 
 
 Arrogantiam, et superbiam, et viam Beant ergo te opera a tabe originali 
 pravam, et os bilingue detestor. purissima tum Deus tum Mater. 
 
 (F.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 14. 
 
 Meum est consilium, et aequitas; Ades ut forma Dei, atque o tarn 
 mea est prudentia, mea est fortitudo. juste sola tumentum serpentem 
 
 vicisti. (B.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 17. 
 Ego diligentes me diligo; et qui Dei editione, limaque Gignens 
 vigilant ad me mane, invenient me. omnia lilia Tegentem genuit Deum. 
 
 (F.) 
 
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 Prov. viii. 1 8. Anagrammata. 
 
 Mecum sunt divitias et gloria, opes Ego Dei virtute ita Immaculata, 
 superbas et justitia. ut vos ipsi bene speratis. (B.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 19. 
 
 Melior est enim fructus meus auro 
 et lapide pretioso, et genimina mea 
 argento electo. 
 
 Ego Germen Sole nitidius, et sola 
 ero Mater juste, pure, perfecte et 
 omnino Immaculata. (B.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 20, 21. 
 
 In viis justitiae ambulo, in medio Eniteo Mater mitis boni Jesu : turn 
 
 semitarum judicii, ut ditem dili- diligit me sine macula: vidisti me.'' 
 
 gentes me. vidi, vidi. (B.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 20, 21. 
 
 In viis justitiae ambulo, in medio 
 semitarum judicii, ut ditem dili- 
 gentes me, et thesauros eorum 
 repleam. 
 
 Prov. viii. 30. 
 
 Cum eo eram, cuncta componens. 
 Et delectabar per singulos dies, 
 ludens coram eo omni tempore. 
 
 Mire sum reperta in toto Immacu- 
 lata in sinu Jesu Dei mei, et Dei 
 tui, et ibi vides me, uti Sol. Oh 
 summe diligar. (B.) 
 
 Te absconsa prope me Unigenitum, 
 esto, concurrens pro delendo com- 
 mode scelere Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Prov. viii. 31. 
 Ludens in orbe terrarum ; et deliciae Ecce subter humo sterili sol veris 
 
 redimendae familiae munimen. (F.) 
 
 meae esse cum filiis hominum. 
 
 Prov. 
 
 vni. 
 
 34- 
 
 Beatus homo qui audit me, et qui 
 vigilet ad fores meas quotidie, et 
 observat ad postes ostii mei. 
 
 O mi Deus, quid ego timebo .'' O 
 te habeo ! Lapsumque tristis Adae 
 evasi, quia stetisti fortitudo mea. 
 
 (B.) 
 
VETUS TEST AMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 65 
 
 Prov. viii. 35. Anagrammata. 
 
 Qui me invenerit inveniet vitam, Oh Mater, sum intemerata Dei 
 et hauriet salutem a Domino. vivi ! En itaque ut in lumine niteo. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 r^ROv. IX. I. 
 
 Proverbiorum nono : Sapientia aedi- Tu, Deipara, primum dicis : Non 
 
 ficavit sibi domum. fio obvia notis morbi Evae. (F.) 
 
 Prov. ix. i. 
 
 Sapientia aedificavit sibi domum, Dum pie munda extitisti, ecce ibi 
 
 excidit columnas septem. fis Immaculata, o Dei Sponsa. (B.) 
 
 Prov. xi. 16. 
 
 Mulier gratiosa inveniet gloriam. Maria, geris lutum originale .'' 
 
 Niteo. (F.) 
 
 Prov. xiv. i. 
 
 Sapiens mulier aedificat domum Fis donum Dei pes Mariae Im- 
 
 suam. maculatus. (F.) 
 
 Prov. xx. 9. 
 
 Quis potest dicere : Mundum est Cum poscit quod tutum usurpas 
 
 cor meum ; purus sum a peccato ? responsum. Mater Dei ? Ecce me. 
 
 Prov. xxviii. 24. 
 
 Qui subtrahit aliquid a patre suo Quidquid hie accusat perperam 
 
 et a matre, et dicit hoc non esse hostis aspectat te. Honor Im- 
 
 peccatum, particeps homicidae est. maculata : Recitabo tute septies 
 
 in die. (F.) 
 
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 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Prov. xxxi. 1 8. AnagrammatA. 
 
 Non extinguetur in nocte lucerna Nonne ter Virgo, ceu lux et unica 
 
 ejus. nitens ? (B.) 
 
 Prov. xxxi. 26. 
 
 Os suum aperuit sapientiae, et lex Ego ita venusta in liliis : macula 
 
 clementise in lingua ejus. etenim Evas penitus expers. (B.) 
 
 Prov. xxxi. 28. 
 
 Surrexerunt filii ejus, et beatissimam Dixi : En tu es mira via, tu Iris 
 
 praedicaverunt. pura et tu labem ferre nescis. (B.) 
 
 Prov. xxxi. 29. 
 
 Multaefiliaecongregaveruntdivitias; Surge, intra, gaude : tu es sine 
 
 tu supergressa es universas. culpa originis : salve futura es, 
 
 Mater Jesu. (B.) 
 
 Prov. xxxi. 30. 
 
 Fallax gratia, et vana est pulchri- 
 tude ; mulier timens Dominum ipsa 
 laudabitur. 
 
 Sat digne laudetur, Immaculata 
 Superni Dei Mater : Ah lux ilia 
 turn profuit nobis. (B.) 
 
 ECCLES. i. 8. 
 
 Cunctae res difficiles ; non potest eas Ave Mulier Luna, rora Favor : 
 
 homo explicare sermone. Non Unus Radius, aureus Sol Clemens 
 
 saturatur oculus visu, nee auris XI. sancte ifistituit de praecepto 
 
 auditu impletur. hoc Festum Conceptionis. (F.) 
 
 EccLES. vii. 6. 
 
 Melius est a sapiente corrigi, quam Quid optes, o Pure purius Immacu- 
 
 stultorum adulatione decipi. lata Dei Matre ? Nil ita, nee iste 
 
 Sol. (F.) 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 67. 
 
 CANTICA CANTICORUM 
 
 OR SONG OF SOLOMON 
 
 Cant. i. i. Anagrammata. 
 
 Incipiunt Cantica Canticorum : Novis occurristi concentus rivulis 
 Osculetur me osculo oris sul. Immaculata Conceptio. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. i. 
 Osculetur me osculo oris sui. O Jesu, toUis voce sursum cor. 
 
 Viso, et lucror Colossum Jesu. 
 Sicco rores Jesu : lutum solvo. 
 Si lustro Crucem, volo os Jesu. 
 
 (F-) 
 
 Cant. i. 4. 
 Nigra sum, sed Formosa, filiae Fusior summa Originalis Fera 
 Jerusalem. laedes me ? (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 4. 
 Nigra sum, sed Formosa, filiae Efflores Immaculata, o Area Altaris 
 Jerusalem, sicut tabernacula Cedar. Jesu digna : rursus benedic me. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Cant. i. 4. 
 Sicut tabernaqula Cedar, sicut pelles Plus corusca nocti, albens Stella, ac 
 Salomonis. Dei sui Mater. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 5. 
 Nolite me considerare quod Fusca lUo Fervore, quo sensi de osse, quo 
 sim, quia decoloravit me sol. credidi, canto Immaculatam. (F.) 
 
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 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Cant. 
 
 1. 5. 
 
 Anagram mata. 
 
 Nolite me considerare quod fusca En Rosa sic Deo fidelis quoquo- 
 sim, quia decoloravit me sol. modo relucens rite Immaculata. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Cant. i. 5. 
 
 Nolite me considerare quod fusca Cor meum enitens ad cor Dei 
 sim. quasi Flos. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 5. 
 Quia decoloravit me sol. 
 
 O Calor, o quasi Telum Dei. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 5. 
 
 Filii matris mese pugnaverunt Ferrum attigit ne Mariam culpis 
 contra me. Evae ? Non. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 6. 
 
 Indica mihi, quern diligit anima Die ubi .'' ah dicam : digna es 
 
 mea, ubi pascas, ubi cubes in in te sim, amica sine labe : ibi 
 
 meridie. primum quievi. (B.) 
 
 Cant. i. 7. 
 
 Si ignoras te, o pulcherrima inter 
 mulieres, egredere. 
 
 Emergens e re impura Lectus Dei 
 originalis horreret. (vel) 
 
 Impura emergens origine realis 
 Dei Lectus horreret. 
 
 Generi semel impuro religari Dei 
 Natus horresceret. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 8. 
 
 Equitatui meo in curribus Pharaonis Mater Jesu honorata ibis, quia 
 assimilavi te, amica mea. unica ei purissime Immaculata. 
 
 (B.) 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 69 
 
 Cant. i. 9. Anagrammata. 
 
 Pulchras sunt genas tuas sicut Intra. Virgo tuta : luces ut Sol 
 
 turturis ; coUum tuum sicut virtutum hinc et speculum sine 
 
 monilia. macula. (B.) 
 
 Cant. i. 10. 
 
 Murenulas aureas faciemus tibi, Ave verni flagrans, Verbi Custos, 
 
 vermiculatus argento. Mater Jesu Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 12. 
 
 Fasciculus myrrhse dilectus meus Cor flammeum rursus Evae 
 
 mihi ; inter ubera mea com- corculum ? Hac die hyems 
 
 morabitur. transiit, imber abiit. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 12. 
 
 Fasciculus mirrhae dilectus meus Oh Immaculata, rursum ter mihi 
 
 mihi ; inter ubera mea com- bona ! Imber tarn dulcis ecce 
 
 morabitur. frueris Jesu. (B.) 
 
 Cant. i. 14, 15. 
 
 Ecce tu pulchra es, amica mea ! Chara tecum ; tecum Chare : Tace. 
 Ecce tu pulcher es, dilecte mi, et Te educes ? Pelles me .'' Duplici 
 
 decorus ! vice secor. (F.) 
 
 Cant. i. 15. 
 
 Lectulus noster floridus. Sol currendo lusit fletus. (F. ) 
 
 Cant. ii. i. 
 
 Ego flos campi, et lilium con- Fulge Amico, imple lota collum 
 
 vallium. Nivis. (F.) 
 
 Cant. ii. 2. 
 
 Sicut Uiium inter spinas, sic amica Rite nitens en Immaculatissima 
 
 mea inter filias. fui : sic lilia carpsi. (B.) 
 
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 Cant. ii. 4. Anagrammata. 
 
 Introduxit me in cellam vinariam ; Nix animor Dei virtute, nil tincta 
 ordinavit in me charitatem. homine, redimar Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Cant. ii. 4. 
 
 Introduxit me in cellam vinariam ; 
 ordinavit in me charitatem. 
 
 Cant. ii. 5. 
 
 Fulcite me floribus, stipate me 
 malis, quia amore langueo. 
 
 Cant. ii. 5. 
 
 Fulcite me floribus, stipate me 
 malis, quia amore langueo. 
 
 Cant. ii. 6. 
 
 Laeva ejus sub capite meo, et 
 dexter a illius amplexabitur me. 
 
 Cant. ii. 6. 
 
 Lseva ejus sub capite meo, et 
 dextera illius amplexabitur me. 
 
 Cant. ii. 6. 
 Laeva ejus sub capite meo, 
 
 Dixit mihi : En Maria non erro ; 
 nunc te vidi taliter Immaculatam. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Qualificatum est furtum originale ? 
 Sepeliam sobole mea. 
 
 Affirmetis sub vero Lilio, longeque 
 a peste Immaculatam. (F.) 
 
 Tu, Immaculata mei, quos flores 
 pie feram.f' bene lilia gusto. (B.) 
 
 Exuto e spiritu elumbis Evae debet 
 exire Immaculata Pallas. 
 
 Ubi est usu labes ex culpa Evae, 
 Adam ? Exempti metro Lilii 
 aret. (F.) 
 
 Deus meus vere est pax ; et 
 Immaculata eluxi, et per lilia 
 abibo. (B.) 
 
 Aspectu me laevi suo beat. 
 
 1606. C. Finotti. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 71 
 
 Cant. ii. 10. Anagrammata. 
 
 Surge, propera, arnica mea, columba Amo, o mea Virgo, Eva sine 
 
 probra macula, fac semper amem 
 te. (B.) 
 
 mea, Formosa mea, et veni. 
 
 Cant. ii. 10. 
 
 Surge, amica mea, columba mea, Mariam vocas ? O me beatam, o 
 Formosa mea, et veni. age sume, Fer in caelum. 
 
 1674. Car. a S. Antonio. 
 
 Cant. ii. 13. 
 Surge, amica mea, et veni. 
 
 Anagramma, et Responsio 
 Mari^. 
 
 Tecum? Age, Jesu : en Maria. 
 
 Cant. ii. 13, 14. 
 
 Surge, amica mea, colurpba mea, in 
 Foraminibus petras, in caverna 
 maceriae, ostende mihi Faciem 
 tuam. 
 
 Ecce canam: veni mihi vere bona 
 IMaria. Enim vero eiFecta Immacu- 
 lata, respirando magis amabimus 
 te. (B.) 
 
 Cant. ii. 13 et vi. 9. 
 
 Surge, amica mea, et veni ; terribilis O Urbs Veneta, Adriatici Maris 
 
 es Regina : milite tuo Turcam 
 arces. 
 1683. Vienriie pro soluto obsidio. 
 
 ut castrorum acies ordinata. 
 
 Cant. ii. 14. 
 
 Ostende mihi Faciem tuam, sonet 
 vox tua in auribus meis ; vox enim 
 tua dulcisj et Facies tua decora. 
 
 O Deus ! novus honor ubi extiti 
 unice Immaculata, ex eo candi- 
 dissima Mater tua juste efFecta 
 sum. (B.) 
 
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 Cant. ii. i6: Anagrammata. 
 
 Dilectus meus mihi, et ego illi, qui Pietas Dei hilarem liquit Lectum 
 
 pascitur inter lilia. originis Lectuli sui. (F.) 
 
 Cant. iii. 2. 
 
 Per vicos et plateas quaeram quern Aliqui magis Mqui ardent pro me 
 
 diligit anima mea. Immaculata e peste. (F.) 
 
 Cant. iii. 4. 
 
 Paululum cum pertransissem eos, Plurimum es a Deo, pie innuens 
 
 inveni quern diligit anima mea. (qualis est) Virginem Immacu- 
 
 latam. (F.) 
 
 Ne 
 
 Cant. iii. 5. 
 suscitetis, neque evigilare 
 
 faciatis dilectam, donee ipsa velit. 
 
 Si negat maculas Evas, sit in 
 placido Dei sinu, et feliciter 
 quiescet. (B.) 
 
 Cant. iii. 6. 
 
 Quae est ista quas ascendit per Hie rursus exurget Maria, sed 
 
 desertum sicut virgula fumi ex quae undique purissima stetit, ea 
 
 aromatibus mirrhas et thuris ? fortis, et Immaculate habetur. (B.) 
 
 Cant. iii. 7. 
 
 En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta 
 fortes ambiunt ex fortissimis Israel. 
 
 Fili, Genitrix non male traxi 
 Flores, nam subsistet vos esse 
 Immaculatos. (F.) 
 
 Cant. iii. 9. 
 
 Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon 
 de lignis Libani, 
 
 Finit mare bills Columba excludens 
 fel originis. (F.) 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 73 
 
 Cant. iii. 9, 10. Anagrammata. 
 
 Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de Bellum Altare regens Effigiem 
 lignis Libani ; columnas ejus fecit Fontis Scarini, denuo e saxis luctum 
 argenteas. conciliabis. (F.) 
 
 Cant. iii. 9, 10. 
 
 Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de 
 lignis Libani ; columnas ejus fecit 
 argenteas, reclinatorium aureum, 
 ascensum purpureum ; media 
 charitate constravit, propter filias 
 Jerusalem. 
 
 Ecce bellum Alveum, puram 
 Virginalem EfRgiem Fontis Scarini, 
 Ludens intus Maria, suscitandi 
 animi Pharetra, Clavis. Vita silet.'' 
 Optarem flere contritus, perure, 
 obsecro, saxeum cor. (F.) 
 
 Cant. iv. i. 
 
 Oculi tui 'columbarum, absque eo Coluber, quid toto nescit orbe 
 quod intrinsecus latet. vulnus ? Quies Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Cant. iv. 3. 
 
 Sicut vitta coccinea labia tua ; et Vivat Immaculata (quod tuto culto 
 eloquium tuum duke. bene vicit Ecclesia). (F.) 
 
 Cant. iv. 3. 
 Sicut vitta coccinea labia tua ; et Ecce tu, vita tua ubique dulci i 
 eloquium' tuum dulce. toto luces Immaculata. (B.) 
 
 in 
 
 Cant. iv. 7. 
 Tota pulchra es, amica mea, et Ah Mater Jesu, necnon et Immacu- 
 macula non est in te. lata tota places ! (B.) 
 
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 Cant. v. 13. 
 
 Gense illius sicut areolae aromatum 
 consitae a pigmentariis. 
 
 Cant. v. 17. 
 
 Quo abiit dilectus tuus, o pul- 
 cherrima mulierum ? quo declinavit 
 dilectus tuus .'' et quasremus eum 
 tecum. 
 
 Cant. vi. 3. 
 
 Pulchra es, arnica mea, suavis, et 
 decora sicut Jerusalem. 
 
 Anagram MATA. 
 
 An Origo Marias Immaculatas sistit 
 Serpenti aculeos linguas ? 
 Saeviit lingua Serpens .'' Instet 
 Caelo Immaculatae Mariae Origo. 
 
 O quo ? Ecce ut summus ille 
 Deus vultu purus, ah dulciter 
 dormit, et requiescit in me ut 
 ubique Immaculata. (B.) 
 
 Siste, Chare Jesu, Immaculata 
 Maria, pulses cor, educ Ave. (F.) 
 
 Cant. vi. 3. 
 
 Pulchra es, amica mea, suavis, et Ah Immaculata Jesu Mater, ecce 
 decora sicut Jerusalem. sidus rosa pura ei luces. (B.) 
 
 ^ANT. VI. 
 
 Una est columba mea, perfecta 
 
 mea, una est 
 genitrici suae. 
 
 matris suas, electa 
 
 Cant. vi. 8. 
 Una est columba mea, perfecta 
 
 mea, una est 
 genitrici suae. 
 
 matris suae, electa 
 
 Fingite Evam sine culpa : Ecce e 
 substratae sorte Evae manet ars 
 Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Ecce Mater Jesu vera Immaculata, 
 sane facta vobis in salutem : 
 sperate, gentes. (B.) 
 
 Cant. 
 
 VI. ». 
 
 Viderunt earn filiae Sion, et Filii Dei Mater sat bene veneratur 
 
 beatissimam praedicaverunt ; et nivea, pura sed eminenter Immacu- 
 reginee laudaverunt eam. lata ideo Augusta. (B.) 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 77 
 
 Cant. vi. 9. Anagrammata. 
 
 Quae est ista quae progreditur Salutetur Virgo Maria : stat ilia 
 
 quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ubique lucens prorsus intacta : 
 
 ut luna, electa ut sol, terribilis ut quare superato dracone has certe 
 
 castrorum acies ordinata ? grandes victorias loquitur. (B.) 
 
 Cant. vi. 9. 
 
 Sancta Maria terribilis ut castrorum Idcirco ista nata Rosa, arbitretur 
 
 acies ordinata. sine macula matris. 
 
 1664. P. DE MaNCUSOs 
 
 Cant. vi. 10. 
 
 Descendi in hortum nucum, ut Horrui Conceptum Iminaculatum 
 
 viderem poma convallium. eludi. Nondum evidens .'' (F.) 
 
 Cant. vii. 2. 
 
 Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis, Gustus non lambis putre ? Quidni 
 
 numquam indigens poculis. circulos Ventris Immaculati. (F.) 
 
 Cant. vii. 5. 
 
 Caput tuum ut Carmelus ; et comae Tuta praebuisti scuta victuri puncto 
 
 capitis tui sicut purpura regis peccati vinculum supergressa 
 
 vincta canalibus. Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Cant. vii. 8. 
 
 Et erunt ubera tua sicut botri In Evae corio, toto virtutis tuente 
 
 vineae, et odor oris tui sicut rore, ardebit Rubus Immaculatus. 
 
 malorum. (F.) 
 
 Cant. vii. 10. 
 Ego dilecto meo, et ad me con- Voces Dei Matrem : Egetne ovo 
 versio ejus. delicioso ? (F.) 
 
BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 THE FOUR MAJOR PROPHETS 
 
 IsA. ii. 2. 
 
 Et erit in novissimis diebus prae- 
 paratus mons domus Domini in 
 vertice montium. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 O Mater Dei, purissimus Mons ubi 
 venit omnimode intacta morsu in- 
 vidi Serpentis. (B.) 
 
 IsA. 
 
 InCVrVabltVr 
 
 rVM. 
 
 ii. ir. Chrono-Anagram. 
 
 aLtltVDo VIro- Ob Vltia TVrCorVM LVna 
 DIrVItVr. 
 
 1684. Vienna plausus. 
 
 IsA. iv. 2. Anagrammata. 
 
 In die ilia erit germen Domini in Ah Virgo, florens inter lilia et sine 
 
 magnificentia et gloria, et fructus tetra labe originis, Dei Genitrix 
 
 terrae sublimis, et exultatio his qui efFecta, in lucem justam salutemque 
 
 salvati fuerint de Israel. Mundi utiliter irradiasti. (B.) 
 
 IsA. 
 
 vn. II. 
 
 Pete tibi signum a Domino Deo Virgo pia, ex communi labe penitus 
 tuo, in profuhdum inferni, sive in indemnis, o non se pure efFudit ut 
 excelsum supra. ros Mundi } (B.) 
 
 IsA. vii. 14. 
 
 Ecce virgo concipiet, et pariet 
 filium, et vocabitur nomen ejus 
 Emmanuel. 
 
 En bene vicit Immaculata Virgo ; 
 ite en proeconium ei Coelitus per- 
 fectum. (B.) 
 
 IsA. vii. 15. 
 
 Butyrum et mel comedet, ut sciat Verbum lubens te Matrem premere 
 reprobare malum et eligere bonum. debet loco gyri tute Immaculate. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 8i 
 
 IsA. ix. 2. 
 
 Populus qui ambulabat in tenebris 
 vidit lucem magnam. 
 
 IsA. ix. 6. 
 
 Parvulus enim natus est nobis, et 
 filius datus est nobis ; et factus est 
 principatus super humerum ejus. 
 
 IsA. xiii. lo. 
 
 Et LVna non spLenDebIt In 
 LVMIne sVo. TVa est noX 
 (Ps. Ixxiii.). 
 
 IsA. xiv. 31. 
 Ulula, porta clama, civitas. 
 
 Is A. xvi. I. 
 
 Emitte agnum, Domine, domina- 
 torem terrae, de petra deserti ad 
 montem filiae Sion. 
 
 IsA. xvi. 5. 
 Et praeparabitur in misericordia 
 solium, et sedebit super illud in 
 tabernaculo David. 
 
 IsA. xix. I. 
 
 Ecce Dominus ascendet 
 nubem levem, 
 iEgyptum, et 
 simulacra iEgypti 
 
 super 
 et ingredietur 
 commovebuntur 
 a facie ejus. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Quid est ? Pingens Urbem Im- 
 maculatam, obnubilat pluvia ? (F.) 
 
 Jesus e Matre purissima natus est 
 ut speculum puritatis ; hinc nitebit 
 ut Sol super nos abunde efFusus. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 MVstapha Carra xhraX VIsIr I 
 generaLIs In obsIDIone VIennse.* 
 
 1683. Vienriie plausus. 
 
 (Byzantii imminens ruina.) 
 
 Amaro luctu pullata jaces. 
 
 1683. Vienriie plausus. 
 
 En Mater Dei fidelis ter amanda : 
 En gemmis omnimode purior, et 
 de toto Intemerata. (B.) 
 
 Matri Dei : Orbis Arbltrae it delu- 
 denda Jabes : Nulla vi repudietur 
 Conceptio Purissima. (F.) 
 
 Summi Dei nivea Mater profecto 
 Immaculata es : Ecce tu superbum 
 draconem egregie vicisti : bene 
 gentes plaudunt : Vive. (B.) 
 
 * Thig is a chronogram also of 1683, the date of Vienna's rehef. 
 
82 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 IsA. xxvi. 9. 
 Sed et spiritu meo in prsecordiis 
 meis de mane vigilabo ad te. 
 
 ISA. XXX. 9. 
 
 Populus enim ad iracundiam pro- 
 vocans est ; et filii mendaces, et 
 nolentes audire legem Dei. 
 
 IsA. xxxii. 18. 
 Habitabit populus meus in pul- 
 chritudine pacis : tabernaculis fidu- 
 ciae, et requie opulenta. 
 
 ISA. XXXV. 2. 
 
 Gloria Libani data est ei, decor 
 Carmeli et Saron ; ipsi videbunt 
 gloriam Domini, et decorem Dei 
 nostri. 
 
 ISA. XXXV. 8. 
 
 Et erit ibi semita et via, et via 
 sancta vocabitur ; non transibit per 
 eam pollutus ; et haec erit vobis 
 directa via. 
 
 IsA. xxxviii. 17. 
 Tu autem eruisti animam meam, ut 
 non periret ; projecisti post tergum 
 tuum omnia peccata mea, 
 
 Anagram MATA. 
 Adsint Evae Poma ; ideo pudebit 
 sceleris originem Dei Matris. (F.) 
 
 Sol devote defendens Virginis pal- 
 mas, ale de jure ; spinetum ride 
 Immaculata Conceptione. (F.) 
 
 (Peace of Rastadt, 17 14.) 
 Carolus en vivat, qui ubi fuderit 
 ense Philippum Hesperie et Siculis 
 nunc bona pacta dabit. 
 Messis Academka (MS., Italian). 
 
 Glorieris Regina : Es Immaculata : 
 in corde tibi lilia nitent ; Deo 
 dicata pretiosum nobis odorem 
 redde. (B.) 
 
 Oh Immaculata a Jesu electa ! Ea 
 ne ibi satis intacte ibit, ubi potenti 
 virtute enervatus ei prostrabitur 
 draco. (B.) 
 
 1. Tam precare, ut a metu omni 
 tuta sit anima mea. Memento 
 servi tui. Integrum accipe pro- 
 positum. 
 
 2. Ut ut eruis animam meam e 
 morte : Memento mei Tu. 
 Utinam parcas propitius pecca- 
 tori, aut genti. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1850. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 83 
 
 IsA. xliii. 2. Anagrammata. 
 
 Cum ambulaveris in igne, non com- Bene vidit innocens umbra Natl 
 
 bureris, et flamma non ardebit in te. 
 
 IsA. xlv. 8. 
 
 Rorate, coeli, desuper, et nubes 
 pluant justum ; aperiatur terra, et 
 germinet salvatorem. 
 
 nobis regnare Floremlmmaculatum. 
 
 1. Ilia sum terra, terra vere mole- 
 sta, optatus veni, en te presen- 
 te irrigata produceret Verbum. 
 
 171 6. Praparatio, etc. 
 
 2. O intret Immaculata Parens, 
 oretur velut germen Dei, et lit 
 salus perpetua orbis terras. (B.) 
 
 Rorate, 
 pluant justum 
 
 IsA. xlv. 8. 
 coeli, desuper. 
 
 et nubes Prae vultu elucet subsidens potenter 
 Maria. (F.) 
 
 IsA. xlv. 8. 
 Aperiatur terra, et germinet salvatorem. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. Gerit alte Parens terrorem maturati Ave. 
 
 2. Regentur merito Matri latera : Ea est Pura. 
 
 3. Repet Aurora, Mater Juris terget lamenta. 
 
 4. Natalitia rorate ; tremas Puer, reum terge. 
 
 5. Tener Jesu rora, partu Matrem riga ; alet te. 
 
 6. Turtur amet artem, peregrina retia a Sole. (F.) 
 
 IsA. li. 3. 
 Gaudium et lastitia invenietur in 
 ea : gratiarum actio, et vox laudis. 
 
 En Genitrix Dei sui notata Im- 
 maculata : Eia vivat : O jugiter 
 laudetur ! (B.) 
 
84 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Anagram mata. 
 
 Jesu Mater, alme Immaculata, eos 
 nimie diliges, qui ei exultant in te. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Is A. Ixvi. lO. 
 
 Lastamini cum Jerusalem, et exul- 
 tate in ea, omnes qui diligitis eam. 
 
 Jer. i. I. 
 
 Jeremias filius Helcias, propheta Hei flevi captam Jerusalem et mox 
 Domini exercituum. viros Dei hinc eripe. 
 
 Salvi. 
 
 Jer. i. 15. 
 
 Ecce ego convocabo omnes cogna- 
 tiones regnorum aquilonis, ait 
 Dominus ; et venient, et ponent 
 unusquisque solium suum in in- 
 troitu portarum Hierusalem, et 
 super omnes muros ejus in cir- 
 cuit u, et super universas urbes 
 Juda. 
 
 Jer. vii. 12. 
 
 Ite ad locum meum in Silo, ubi 
 habitavit nomen meum a principio. 
 
 Jer. viii. 14. 
 
 Convenite, et ingrediamur civitatem 
 munitam, et sileamus ibi. 
 
 Jer. XX. 15. 
 Natus est tibi puer masculus. 
 
 Anagr. pur. omen 
 chronosticum. 
 
 Innocentius VVI., Imperator, 
 Joannes Sobiesc, Carolus Lota- 
 ringiae, Conradus Staremberg, tot 
 Reges totque principes Europae, 
 jure suo. Anno mdclvvvvvviv. 
 unient se omnes summo nisu, 
 quousque Mehemet in nomine 
 Jesv victus, ruat. 
 
 Anon. {Vienriie obstdium 
 solutum, 1684.) 
 
 Immaculata Dei, num testimonium 
 nobile perhibui ? Omnia cupio. 
 
 (F.) 
 
 Civitas nimium munita tecum enitet 
 Dei Mater Virgo sine labe. (B.) 
 
 Sic stupet sub Austria Lumen. 
 
 1 716. My St. Mag. 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 85 
 
 EzECH. xl. 24. Anagrammata. 
 
 Et ecce porta quae respiciebat ad Ec cape, Pater ejus Turcas quae 
 austrum. res domabit. 
 
 171 6. My St. Mag. 
 
 EzECH. xliii. I. 
 
 Et eduxit me ad portam quas re- 
 spiciebat ad viam orientalem. 
 
 Dixi quod probe metet de ira Evae 
 et spina Mater Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 EzECH. xliv. 1. 
 
 Porta haec clausa erit, et vir non Ah Maria prorsus Immaculata, 
 
 transibit per earn, quoniam Domi- Regina potens et spes nostri bene- 
 
 nus, Deus Israel, ingressus est per dicta, Uni Deo qui lumen est 
 
 earn. reservaris. (B.) 
 
 A famous text for Mary's perpetual virginity, 
 
 Dan. iv. 7. 
 
 Videbam, et ecce arbor in medio Debeo Viti Evas sine Te orbi 
 
 terrae, et altitudo ejus nimia. ridenti Cedro Immaculata Matre. 
 
 Dan. v. 27. 
 
 Interrogatio programmatica 
 
 IN Emericum Tecelium. 
 
 Lunate sapiens, ubi nunc es stans .'' 
 Hasres, et petens metuis. 
 
 Responsio anagrammatica, 
 Dan. v. 27. 
 
 Tecel : appensus es in statera et 
 inventus es minus habens. 
 
 1686. G. VANDEN EeDE, S.J. 
 
 Dan. xi. 5. Anagramma. 
 
 Et confortabitur rex austri, multa Tu natus Vienne ex Domo Au- 
 enim dominatio ejus. striaca fortiter immobili. 
 
 1716. My St. Mag. ■ 
 
86 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Dan. xi. 9. Anagrammata. 
 
 Et intrabit in regnum rex austri, Ex Austria intret Iberiam trans 
 et revertetur in terram suam. Tirrenum ; Turrem e nutu reget. 
 
 17 1 6. My St, Mag. 
 
 Dan. xii. 3. 
 
 Qui docti fuerint, fulgebunt sicut S. Unio atque Liga Bursfeld tuta 
 stellae in perpetuas aeternitates. stet, annis perpetuet, feliciter vin- 
 
 cet. 
 
 1698. Joannes Weinckens 
 (Prior Monast. Seligenstadensis). 
 
 Appendix Daniel. 
 
 Sancti Ananias, Azarias et Misael. ZelatI animas scena assati in ara. 
 
 1689. A. C. Redelius. 
 
 Tres pueri Judaei, Sidrach, Misach Ah, audi hac de re stuporem ; ab 
 et Abednego. his ignis recedit. 
 
 Salvi. 
 
 Darnel in lacu leonum depositus. Valde pio jam nuUius dens nocet. 
 
 Salvi. 
 
 THE MINOR PROPHETS 
 OsEE viii. 2. Anagrammata. 
 
 Me invocabunt : Deus meus co- Vacuo labes originis : Novum 
 gnovimus te, Israel. Semen eductum est. (F.) 
 
 Joel ii. 29. 
 
 Sed et super servos meos et ancillas Flemus, sed veneno satum subdes 
 in diebus illis effundam spiritum serpentis coUum Purissima Filii 
 meum. Dei Mater. 
 
 Fles .? Demus veneno satum 
 serpentis coUum : subdes Purissima 
 Filii Dei Mater. (F.) 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 87 
 
 Joel iii. 2. 
 
 Et congregabo omnes gentes, et 
 deducam eas in vallem Josaphat, 
 et disceptabo cum eis ibi. 
 
 Anagramma in Deum Hominem 
 
 JuDICEM. 
 
 Ecce, ob te gementes nupto, ab 
 Adam, Eva, Porno scelestos judica- 
 bis Gigantes. De Matre ? Nihil. 
 
 Amos iii. 8. • Anagrammata. 
 
 Leo rugiet, quis non timebit ? Quid peroptetis .? Quid ? Nonne 
 
 Dominus Deus locutus est, quis seligo Te Hortum Sion, totis te 
 
 non prophetabit ? nubibus clausum ? (F.) 
 
 Abdi^e 21. 
 
 Et ascendent salvatores in montem 
 Sion judicare montem Esau. 
 
 JoN^ i. 4. 
 
 Et facta est tempestas magna in 
 mari, et navis periclitabatur conteri. 
 
 M 
 
 ic. 
 
 6. 
 
 Et ponam Samariam quasi acervum 
 lapidum. 
 
 Nahum i. 4. 
 
 Infirmatus est Basan et Carmelus, et 
 flos Libani elanguit. 
 
 Habac. ii. 20. 
 
 Dominus autem in templo sancto 
 suo: sileat a facie ejus omnis 
 terra. 
 
 Nonne Jesus moriens denuo notat, 
 si decet se Immaculata Mater. (F.) 
 
 Certante Satana obstet ante firmi 
 signis Tecti Immaculata Puerpera. 
 
 (F.) 
 
 Emi spem mundi Aqua Pura, Rosa 
 Immaculata. 
 
 Unii Apes ad Rosam .'' 
 Pure Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Quam .'' 
 
 Clarente ab efFusis Liliis tantum 
 Maria longe stat Nubes. (F.) 
 
 Fortis es, 
 
 Sion ; es uni Deo 
 
 Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 o pluvia Intacte Mons 
 Mater, es 
 
g8 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Habac. iii. 3. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Venit ab austro Deus. 
 
 When the hoped-for heir was born to the Emperor Charles VI. 
 and Elisabetha Christina, his spouse, in 171 6, this was one of the texts 
 chosen by an anonymous author to celebrate the event. He called his 
 production Mysterium Magnum in auspicatissimo natali Serenissimi 
 Austria Jrchiducis Leopoldi revelatum, and in many pages of manuscript, 
 for I do not think it was ever printed, he treated the subject very 
 exhaustively. He took it in hand cabalistically, chronogrammatically, 
 anagrammatically, per Notaricon, and generally according to the 
 Pythagorean fancies about numbers then in vogue. 
 
 Anagram MATA. 
 
 1. Avus se indet ab ortu 
 
 (His baptismal name). 
 
 2. Unda vitae-Ortus beas 
 
 (His baptism). 
 
 3. Nova Austriae subdet 
 
 (His future conquests). 
 
 4. Totus sub Ava renide 
 (His education by his grand- 
 mother). 
 
 5. Ebro stet unda suavi 
 
 (The future fertility of Spain). 
 
 6. Uber et suavis donat 
 
 (His generosity). 
 
 Alas, these Scriptural prophecies, as interpreted by the anagrammatic 
 art, all came to nothing, for the infant died on November 4th following. 
 Possibly this accounts for the vaticinia, as the author calls them, 
 remaining in manuscript. 
 
 10. 
 
 II. 
 
 12. 
 
 Avitas urbes tuendo 
 (His patriotic courage). 
 
 Austriades nutu beo 
 (His parents' joy). 
 
 Enatus det Urbi Avos 
 (His future progeny). 
 
 Dies rube ; natus ovat 
 (His birthday). 
 
 Udo sub Ariete natus 
 (The month of his birth). 
 
 Sat vides. Ova rubent 
 (The season of birth, Easter.) 
 
VETUS TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 89 
 
 Habac. iii. 3. Anagram MATA. 
 
 Operuit celos gloria ejus, et laudis Iste Leo erit Leopoldus Austriacus 
 ejus plena est terra. April! enatus e rege. 
 
 Habac. iii. 4. 
 
 Splendor ejus ut lux erit ; cornua Num Leopoldus Austriacus Rex 
 in manibus ejus. Iberie ? Sum : innuit. 
 
 17 1 6. My St. Mag._ 
 
 Habac. iii. 1 1. 
 
 Sol et luna steterunt in habitaculo Sol stet alto, subeunte huic Luna 
 suo. in atro. 
 
 1689. G. vanden Eede, S.J. 
 
 Refers to the crescent moon on the banner of the Turks. Cf. 
 anagram on John iii. 30. 
 
 Soph. iii. 14. 
 
 Lauda, filia Sion ; jubila, Israel ; iEterno nixa Lilio, linita rore, Dei 
 lastare, et exulta in omni corde, labiis diffusa vere es Immaculata. 
 filia Jerusalem. Alleluia. (F.) 
 
 Agg. i. 8. 
 Ascendite in montem, portate Docte fidendo potentiae, Reginam 
 ligna, et aedificate domum. Immaculatam sentite. (F.) 
 
 Zach. iv. 7. 
 Et educet lapidem primarium, et Exprimatur ibi Maria quae est 
 exaequabit gratiam gratias ejus. Immaculata Dei : pergite et 
 
 gaudete. (B.) 
 
 Zach. x. i. 
 
 Petite a Domino pluviam in Messias emittitur Unione (ponite) 
 
 tempore serotino, et Dominus Dei opere ; (ponite) Fundo Im- 
 
 faciet nives. maculato. (F.) 
 
APOCRYPHA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 3 EsDR^ iv. 41. Anagrammata. 
 
 Et omnes populi clamaverunt, et Nonne Patres puro velut Axe re- 
 dixerunt : Magna est Veritas, et sugent Mel Deiparas ? Ut stetit 
 praevalet. Immaculata ! (F.) 
 
 4 EsDRyE vi. 59. 
 
 Et si propter nos creatum est Truncus es Luci, quo praeesset, 
 saeciilum, quare non hereditatem honor ? Contestemur super postes 
 possidemus cum sasculo? Dei ^dem Immaculatam. (F.) 
 
 ToBi^ i. I. 
 
 Tobias ex tribu et civitate Hie si luce abit orbatus, pietate 
 Nephthali. nitet. Salvi. 
 
 ToBi^ ii. 14. 
 
 Immobilis in timore Dei permansit, I gratia Dei annos Jubilasos at- 
 agens gratias Deo omnibus diebus tingens et demum sibi odorem 
 vitae suas. spires ab Jesv. 
 
 1770. P. Florianus.* 
 
 ToBi^ xiii. 13. 
 
 Luce splendida fulgebis, et omnes Pura Stella, Dei Mater lasdentes 
 fines terrae adorabunt te. bonos Nubes efFringi ducet. (F.) 
 
 * From a folio tract written in praise of Paulus Ferdinandus, Abbas Gradicensis, 
 on his attaining the jubilee of his priesthood; printed at Olmiitz in 1770, 11 ff., pref. 
 and A — Mj. 
 
 93 
 
96 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Esther xvi. 22. Anagrammata. 
 
 Unde et vos inter cseteros festos Hasc tu hora Dei ? Marias Con- 
 dies hanc habetote diem, et celebrate ceptio est Turris e Tecto, est Fons 
 earn cum omni lastitia, ut et in signatus e IMonte ; devoto sub 
 posterum cognoscatur. Clemente teneri debet Immaculata. 
 
 (F.) 
 
 Baruch i. 17. 
 
 Peccavimus ante Dominum Deum 
 nostrum, et non credidimus. 
 
 Ecce Parens dando Nidum nectit 
 ortui summum donum Jesum. 
 
 Baruch iii. 34, ;^^. 
 
 Stellae dederunt lumen in custodiis 
 suis, et laetatae sunt, luxerunt ei 
 cum jucunditate. 
 
 Valde laudant te, Mater Jesu : tu 
 lux intus nitescens : in vertice tui 
 sunt stellae duodecim. (B.) 
 
 Sap. i. 4. 
 Quoniam in malevolam animam 
 non introibit sapientia, nee habitabit 
 in corpore subdito peccatis. 
 
 Nosce quo inhabitabit Mater omni- 
 no Immaculata tibi ipsi sic bona : en 
 in corda omni puritate plena. (B.) 
 
 Sap. iv. i. 
 
 O quam pulchra est casta generatio, Ah placet et Virgo nostra, crescat- 
 
 cum claritate ! que Immaculata ! (B.) 
 
 Sap. vii. 11. 
 
 Venerunt autem mihi omnia bona Ah, Mater revera Immaculata ! 
 
 pariter cum ilia, et innumerabilis Nonne intus purior liliis ? Nonne 
 
 honestas per manus illius, tu spes tu lumen bis mihi amabile ! 
 
 (B.) 
 
APOCRYPHA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 97 
 
 Sap. vii. 26. Anagrammata. 
 
 Candor est lucis cCternas, et specu- Deipara tu es, et munda lucens es 
 lum sine macula Dei majestatis. Immaculata : sic eas inter ccelites. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Sap. viii. 16. 
 Intrans in domum meam, quiescam 
 cum ilia. Non enim habet amari- 
 tudinem conversatio illius, nee 
 taedium convictus illius, sed laeti- 
 tiam et gaudium. 
 
 Ecce Angelo nunciante laudabills 
 Mater Dei tecum nitens Immacu- 
 lata. Oh nonne ilia omnium cor- 
 dium dulcissima vita, immo ut 
 Mundi tutissima requies .'' (B.) 
 
 Sap. X. 10. 
 
 Justum deduxit Dominus per vias Dominus Petrus 
 rectas ; et ostendit illi regnum Dei. jura. Est editurus. 
 
 addixit.* 
 
 Coenen legit 
 Idem multis 
 
 * This anagram came from a Flemish affiche in celebration of Petrus Coenen 
 
 obtaining his Doctorate in Civil and Canon Law at the University of Louvain. It 
 
 has been a custom in Belgium for several centuries to post up these affiches on the 
 
 walls or gates of Universities and other public buildings when students took their 
 
 degrees, or professors celebrated their jubilee, or priests their first unbloody sacrifice. 
 
 These large folio sheets (often elephant folio) are nearly always the work of the friends 
 
 and relations of the man who is thus honoured. Some are very curious, being full of 
 
 chronograms and other literary devices from beginning to end, and occasionally some 
 
 good Latin verses adorn the placard. Many bear internal evidence that they have 
 
 been bought from professional verse-makers and chronogrammatists, for the dedicators 
 
 of many of these learned productions sign themselves as sisters or aunts, or as having 
 
 some other relationship to the hero of the affiche. These amiable and devoted women 
 
 would not be able to compose such ingenious and difficult chronograms and other 
 
 Latin tours deforce as we meet with in most of the specimens, but they could pay, and 
 
 would willingly, for some one else to write them, so that their dear brother or nephew 
 
 or son might make as good a show on the walls as his friends and fellow-students. So 
 
 quite a small colony of literary hacks would be able to drive a rather precarious 
 
 trade in these singular documents. They are not much known or seen in our country, 
 
 and a few years ago the British Museum had only a few specimens bound up here 
 
 and there in different folios, and of course very hard to find out from the Catalogue. 
 
 However, now our National Library is in much better case, for my friend Mr. Hilton 
 
 7 
 
98 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Sap. X. 20. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Et decantaverunt, Domine, nomen sanctum tuum, et victricem manum 
 tuam laudaverunt pariter. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. Ut verum tectum anni commendent utra Parens Deum decuit, 
 terram juvat ? Nonne tu Immaculata ? 
 
 2. Nota utrum nude verum necne : Uncta Dei Mater p° instant! 
 Immaculata ? Tantum Decretum verum. 
 
 3. Utrum Canes mundi Matrem Dei voce tueantur an re Natum 
 deturpent, ni vocent ut Immaculatam. (F.) 
 
 The Dominicans, who followed Aquinas as their great teacher, were 
 not nearly so eager in defence of the Immaculate Conception as the 
 Franciscans, with Duns Scotus. Hence the insinuation against them in 
 the third anagram above. The Dominicans were styled Domini Canes. 
 
 EccLi. i. 9. Anagrammata. 
 
 Ipse creavit illam in spiritu sancto, Ut Dei Mater sic stetit perimmacu- 
 et vidit, et dinumeravit, et mensus lata nitens nive purius, et Sole 
 est. nitidius. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. i. 14. 
 
 Iriitium sapientise timor Domini ; et Nimis, o nimis intacte nitet Virgo 
 
 cum fidelibus in vulva concreatus Immaculata in vulva : bene supremi 
 
 est ; et cum electis foeminis gradi- Dei ros efficitur, dum stetit coeli 
 
 tur. decus. (B.) 
 
 has presented to the Trustees a very large collection in seven immense folio volumes. 
 I looked through them carefully when they first arrived from a bookseller in Louvain. 
 Chronograms abounded throughout, and now and then a short anagram of a postulant's 
 name, but the only Biblical anagram I saw was the above. As far as I remember they 
 weighed 50 kilos. The date of the above anagram is 167 1. The date of these 
 Belgian broad-sheets is nearly always given by a chronogram. In the present case 
 it is given thus : • 
 
 JVblLantes appLaVDVnt MYLIanl. 
 
APOCRYPHA ANAGRAMMATICA 99 
 
 EccLi. jiv. I, 1. Anagramma. 
 
 Qui continens est justitlae appre- Oh ubique intret Filia tanti Dei 
 
 hendet illam ; et obviabit illi quasi tota sibi enitens Immaculata : ah 
 
 mater honorificata. prospere in illo quiescat ! (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 3. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Ego ex ore Altissimi prodivi, primogenita ante omnem creaturam. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1 . Protegor : Eximia prorsus emano immunitate mea originali : Decet. 
 
 2. Ego perrexi omnino Immaculata : asto sempiterni Dei Virgo Mater. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Anagrammata cum Acrostichide. 
 
 1. M aria originali ruina exempta surgis primo momento et decet. 
 
 2. A culpa Originaria et morte Deus exemit Matrem in eo primo signo. 
 
 3. R edemptor meus Mariam originario seponit exitio, macula gente. 
 
 4. I o ! Pes Mariae et integer ex Monstro originariam culpam edomuit. 
 
 5. A mor novo signo mittis Dei Matrem originariae culpas expertem. 
 
 1664. OCTAVIUS DE AuGUSTINO. 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 3. Anagrammata. 
 
 Ego feci in coells ut oriretur O intret nunc Virgo Sol miri 
 
 lumen indeficiens, et sicut nebula luminis ! Ecce enim sine labe 
 
 texi omnem terram. rite efFecta, ut Deum exoret. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 4. 
 
 Ego in altissimis habitavi, et Ah ! surge Immaculata ! oh mi 
 
 thronus meus in columna nubis. sol veni nobis intus uti bis nitens ! 
 
 (B.) 
 
100 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 EccLi. xxlv. 9. Anagrammata. 
 
 Ab initio et ante saecula creata sum, En tu lucens Immaculata ubique 
 
 et usque ad futurum saeculum non munda eas : o venusta Mater es, 
 
 desinam. et fiducia nostra. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 10, II. 
 
 Et sic in Sion firmata sum, et in Intuemini, quantum in coelis 
 
 civitate sanctificata similiter eniteat Immaculata Jesu Christi 
 
 requievi, et in Hierusalem potestas Mater : o ais efFecta est reis Iris 
 
 mea. pietatis. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 12. 
 
 Et radicavi in populo honorificato, A decidente Parente nostro oh 
 
 et in parte Dei mei hasreditas vivit Immaculata Mater Dei, hinc 
 
 illius, et in plenitudine sanctorum et Sole splendidior invenio pie 
 
 detentio mea. profuit in Isetitia. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 13. 
 
 Quasi cedrus exaltata sum in Immaculata Parens sis lux obvia 
 
 Libano, et quasi cipressus in in nos nitescens : quisquis adoret 
 
 monte Sion. te. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 14. 
 
 Quasi palma exaltata sum in Alta Iris eas : pax a Deo, o Im- 
 
 Cades, et quasi plantatio rosae maculata : quiescant hi qui sperant 
 
 in Jericho. in te sola. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 14. 
 
 Quasi oliva speciosa in campis, et Immaculata Sion quisquis amat te : 
 
 quasi platanus exaltata sum juxta nata satis pia eluces pax nova, a 
 
 aquam in plateis. qua spes pia illuxit. (B.) 
 
APOCRYPHA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 lOI 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 15. Anagrammata. 
 
 Sicut cinnamomum et balsamum Oh Mira et mundissima Rosa, 
 
 aromatizans odorem dedi. Quasi modo Immaculata remansisti, quae 
 
 mirrha electa dedi suavitatem zelo Dei devictum draconem 
 
 odoris. 
 
 deturbasti. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 15. 
 
 Quasi mirrha electa dedi suavi- I vitis Dei Immaculata: ah quot 
 
 tatem odoris. rores dederas ! (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 15. 
 
 Et quasi Libanus non incisus Oh bone Jesu, an ne sum sat pura 
 
 vaporavi habitationem meam. in Sion, quia tibi Immaculata.'' (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 16. 
 
 Ego quasi terebinthus extendi Oh ! roris gemma habitem in te ! 
 
 ramos meos, et rami mei honoris Sat gestis, quia ex toto Evae 
 
 et gratise. indemnis errore. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 17. 
 
 Ego quasi vitis fructificavi suavi- Oh Virgo, oh Iris, si tu efficeris 
 
 tatem odoris ; et flores mei fructus tota Immaculata, oro ; in te 
 
 honoris et honestatis. quiescat Deus ; in te sit elFusus 
 
 ut ros. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 18. 
 
 Ego mater pulchrs dilectionis, et Oh Regina, gestis nites et ecce 
 
 timoris, et agnitionis, et sanctas prosilies in toto petra nitide Im- 
 
 spei. maculata. (B.) 
 
 Ecci,i. xxiv. 18. 
 
 In me gratia omnis vitas et Ego Jesu Mater satis mitis; item 
 
 veritatis ; in me omnis spes vits ivi prorsus intaminata : venite, 
 
 et virtutis. venite, (B,) 
 
I02 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 19. Anagrammata. 
 
 Transite ad me, omnes qui con- O micans in mei spe, ingrediensque 
 
 cupiscitis me, et a generationibus eminentissime Immaculata, subito 
 
 meis implemini. cor petit ! (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 20. 
 
 Spiritus enim meus super mel Ah ! tu Stella purissima vives, dum 
 
 dulcis, et haereditas mea super serpentem, seu maleficum de te 
 mel et favum. 
 
 reprimes ! (B.) 
 
 Ecc 
 
 LI. XXIV. 20. 
 
 Memoria mea in generationes En Immaculata, oro, in me regnes 
 sseculorum. amore Jesu. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxiv. 22. 
 
 Qui elucidant me vitam asternam At qui tu Immaculata Mundi .-' 
 habebunt. Ah bene, ter bene ! (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxvi. 15. 
 
 Gratia super gratiam mulier sancta Genita Paradiso surgat ter pura, 
 et pudorata. ter Immaculata. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxvi. 24. 
 
 Fundamenta asterna supra petram En Maria adintrat semper Immacu- 
 solidam, et mandata Dei in corde lata : En Domus Dei, sed in caelo 
 mulieris sanctae. praestanter fundata. (B.) 
 
 EccLi. xxxi. 8, 9, 10. 
 Programma. 
 Beatus Vir qui inventus est sine macula, et qui post aurum non abiit, nee 
 speravit in pecunis thesauris ! Quis est hie .? et laudabimus eum, fecit 
 enim mirabilia in vita sua. Qui probatus est in illo, et perfectus est, 
 erit illi gloria asterna. 
 
APOCRYPHA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 103 
 
 Responsio anagrammatica. 
 
 Est Sanctus Franciscus Borgia, Societatis Jesu. En Stella vitae in sinu 
 Pii ; erit via illi vita absque labe : quin virtute fuit beatus et venerabilis : 
 quem Clemens Decimus Papa triumphanti superum militiae inseruit, et 
 honore ornavit. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 NuMERUS LiTERARUM. 
 
 
 
 A 
 
 M 
 
 B 
 
 C 
 
 D 
 
 E F G H I L 
 
 M 
 
 N P Q 
 
 16 
 
 1 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 I 
 
 20 2 I 2 28 8 
 R S T V 
 10 17 19 21 
 
 6 
 
 12 5 5 3 
 
 SUMMA, 192. 
 
 EccLi. xxxiv. 8. 
 
 Saplentia In ore fIDeLIs coM- 
 pLanabltVr. 
 
 EccLi. xl. 19. 
 
 Et aedificatio civitatis confirmabit 
 nomen ; et super banc mulier im- 
 maculata computabitur. 
 
 EccLi. 1. 6, 7. 
 Programma ad Sanctissimum 
 Benedictum. 
 Ecce Confessor magnus, qui sicuti 
 Stella matutina in medio nebulae, 
 et ut luna plena in diebus suis vere 
 lucet : ut sol refulgens, sic ille 
 semper effulsit in templo Dei. 
 
 The frontispiece is a portrait 
 anagram on it. 
 
 Anon. (Prague, 1672). 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 CentVM el anni post prasLIa flDI 
 Laborls. 
 
 1722. P. Florianus. 
 
 Bene hoc tibi, o Mater Dei tam per- 
 fecta, nimium pura : tu Civitas ilia 
 sanctificata, tu omnium cor. (B.) 
 
 Anagr. pur. elegiacum. 
 
 Bursfeldinenses ego junctos tuto 
 Clientes 
 Unio dum flores mellea, casta 
 vires 
 Lacteque plena pluis, pietati flumina 
 fundis ; 
 Lumina tu renites, mellibus ecce 
 viges. 
 1698, Joan. Weinckens, 
 in Alveare Apum. 
 
 of St. Benedict, with the above 
 
I04 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 EccLi. 1. 27. Anagrammata. 
 
 Doctrinam sapientias et disciplinas Praesciti jus Instantis dices: Colitis 
 scripsit in codice isto Jesus. Diem Conceptionis Deiparae. (F.) 
 
 EccLi. li. 29. 
 
 Laetetur anima vestra in miseri- En Filii Dei Parens jure Immacu- 
 cordia ejus, et non confundemini lata : En nova Iris : nonne ita 
 in laude ipsius. videtis nostrum decus. (B.) 
 
 Ex Oratione Manasse. 
 
 Non sum dignus intueri et aspicere Reginse Dei Matri, Initium nomen 
 altitudinem casli, pras multitudine redditum quale ? Unus en tute 
 iniquitatum mearum. Titulus Principis Immaculatas. 
 
 (F.) 
 
 Manasses rex Judaicus = Securas animas seduxi. 
 
 Selhamer, Tul>ie Prafatio, p. 56. 
 
 I Mach. iii. 18. 
 
 Facile est concludi multos in manus Num vernus Flos dulcis Immacu- 
 paucorum. lata Conceptio ? (F.) 
 
 2 Mach. xiv. 25. 
 
 Tu, Domine universorum, qui Uti debet usu Nivis Filius, nullo 
 nullius indiges, voluisti templum luto, e primo instanti vis me Virgi- 
 habitationis tu£E fieri in nobis. nem subtrahi iniquo Daemoni. (F.) 
 
 Here end the Anagrams on the Apocrypha. The last is a very 
 appropriate one and so is its text, when we. remember the controversies 
 of the period on the Immaculate Conception, and also that (F.) the author 
 was officially connected with the shrine of 6". Maria ad Nives. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM 
 ANAGRAMMATICUM 
 
 los 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM 
 ANAGRAMMATICUM 
 
 Matt. i. i. Anagram mata. 
 
 Liber generationis Jesu Christi, Fidei lingua habe historice rara 
 filii David, filii Abraham. ubi finis Lilii Matris Dei. (F.) 
 
 Matt. i. 14. 
 Azor aVteM genVIt saDoC. 
 
 TVte a CorDe agonlzaMVs. 
 EgoMet natVra ZoDIaCVs. 
 
 Z being a stumbling-block, the anagrammatist puts s in its place, 
 more veterum, as he says. He then produces thirty-five chrono-anagrams 
 connected with the subject of the fourteen Franciscans who were martyred 
 at Prague by the heretics in 1 6 1 1 . He was celebrating the centenary 
 of this event, and therefore chooses the odd text above, which is a 
 chronogram of 1 6 1 1 . From the thirty-five he made I have selected 
 the following as the best : — 
 
 5. Et VIros De taV agnosCaM. 
 
 8. GaVDete ! sVM Ista Corona. 
 
 10. O! este gaVDIa sanCtorVM. 
 
 1 5. Reglna Vos DVCet aMatos. ' 
 
 16. Vt Cos ago Mater aD nIVes. 
 
 17. Ego asto DeCas, tria, VnVM. 
 23. O ! gVstaVI De saCraMento. 
 
 26. JVsto Deo grate CanaMVS. 
 
 27. O ! stIgMata DVCere oVans. 
 
 107 
 
io8 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 30. TrVCIDet Mea, oVes, agnos. 
 
 32. Is tVVs agon Mea DeCorat. 
 
 33. Magno aVsV Certatis Deo. 
 2S- Gesta, DVCes, RoMa notaVI. 
 
 171 1. A quibusdam Conventus Christipar<£ incolis 
 Praga ad Nives composita* 
 
 Matt. i. 16. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Jacob autem genuit Joseph, virum Marias de qua natus est Jesus. 
 
 Anagram MATA. 
 
 1 . Magne, bone Deus, quaeris castum Marise .? est Joseph, vivit } vivat. 
 
 2. Vivas o gemma Dei, Vitae Pater, qua Jesum nutris, in hoc beatus es. 
 
 3. Actu gaudeamus tubis, quoniam Joseph est, serene vivit Marise. 
 
 4. Vir es amator Vitas, Tu qui Jesum pascendo genuisti ; eum habeas. 
 
 5. Joseph quia Beatissimae Marise Tutor unus es, turn unice gaude. 
 
 6. Christo Jesu quo mage vivas, eum bene sapide, Vitse nutrias. 
 
 7. O Tutor Jesu Dei pie sequens Mariam, hac en gustabis Vitas Uvam. 
 
 8. Eia ; Joseph Regie unus sum Deo, quem acute substantiavit Maria. 
 
 9. Tu mihi Magno Deo Vita eras, qui me pascebas, rite venuste ! 
 Vivas. 
 
 10. Joseph qua castus Jesu et Marias datus, regie vivit. Bonum. Amen. 
 
 Klimeccius, 
 in Decas. 
 
 Matt. i. 16. Anagramma. 
 
 Jacob autem genuit Joseph, virum Qui maritus .'' Justus. Quas tu 
 Maris, de qua natus est Jesus, qui habitans cum eo .'' Eva osse Pura, 
 vocatur Christus. Dei Mater. Hunc ergo vicisti. 
 
 * See Bibliographical Appendix for this, s.v. 17 11. Ws^ue in Smculum. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 109 
 
 Matt. i. 18. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Cum esset desponsata mater ejus Maria Joseph. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1 . Credant a Jesu Maria et Josepho summa spes est. 
 
 2. Spes mea Sanctus Joseph, totus Dei, mare Mariae. 
 
 3. Ave, Josephe, pro me (Sanctissima Matre) datus es. 
 
 4. Ter summa Maria es, Joseph es, et Dei sponsa actu. 
 ■5. Joseph a Maria, item et Nato speres, sumas decus. 
 
 6. Sospes es Joseph, Matre Divina et cara et summa. 
 
 7. Joseph spes unica summa adest reo, teste Maria. 
 
 8. Testis Mariae sempiternus hac ea adeo possum. 
 
 9. Spes, decus, Joseph : Nato Mariffi re summe satiat. 
 10. Josephe canas, Dei Mariae semper sum totus ; sat. 
 
 Klimeccius. 
 
 Matt. i. 19. 
 Programma. 
 Joseph autem, vir ejus, cum esset Justus, voluit occulte dimittere eam., 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 _^i. Summe dukes vivite oculati testes Virtutum Mariae, Jesu et Joseph. 
 
 2. Ecce si Josepho Deus tuus servivi totus ; tu Vir male, time elatum, 
 time. 
 
 3. Sicut Deus Virtutum sicut itote, servite Josepho, vive, late, alme, 
 summe. 
 
 4. Ave, alme Vir Virtutum Joseph, mitis veluti missus, et ecce totus 
 e Deo. 
 
 5. Mire dulcet Joseph, totus caslestis est turn serviam ei ; Vive ut 
 vivam. 
 
 6. Caslitum Joseph caste, Tu mi Deo vi servatus et summe et vive 
 rutilis. 
 
no BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 7. Mei ; Josephus Sidus summe electum vivit cselo, vivit et terras 
 totus. 
 
 8. Deus Virtutum locutus est, Jesus Maria et Joseph me, me, o lecti 
 vivite ! 
 
 9. O Joseph ! verus, summe utilis Servitor Dei mei, Tu jam tute, 
 acute luces. 
 
 10. Tecum Carmel, ut et Dei Vivi servulus sum, ut et Joseph sim, eo 
 totus ei. 
 
 Klimeccius. 
 
 Matt. i. 20. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Hasc autem eo cogitante, ecce angelus Domini apparuit in somnis 
 Joseph. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. O ! en ecce Immaculata Porta in spe Agni, gesto Deum : haec nisi 
 Joseph novit. 
 
 2. Viges Vitas Joseph, da panem Pani Angelorum, hoc ecce intono sat 
 mystice. 
 
 3. O mei ! pangite canite Agno ecce hie Joseph ut Deo Mariae in 
 sponsum datus. 
 
 4. Magni Josephi magnum decus, nonne ecce tota pulchra ? si tota .'' 
 i, ei ssepe io ! 
 
 5. Ecce Joseph accola in sinu lEgypti, Te, Te vi oro, gestans da panem 
 hominum. 
 
 6. Ecce pie egregie concinno ita ; Joseph ut lampas natus, homini Deo 
 amatus. 
 
 7. Pangite ; ecce Joseph homo Dei, ut manna, omni saeculo pie 
 regnavit castis. 
 
 8. En ecce in Te Deo saeculi, Agna Agnum, ac Joseph Josephum 
 important. Sit io ! 
 
 9. O Joseph, Joseph ! o Agna Magna ! en ecce Deo caelitum punctatim 
 inservitis. 
 
 10. Ecce ut tum in Joseph Synagoga prima tandem et in Josepho 
 Ecclesia nova. Klimeccius. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM in 
 
 Matt. i. 20. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Joseph, fili David, noli timere accipere Mariam conjugem tuam. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1 . Vir digne fili Joseph, oro veni, accipe Immaculatam Dei Matrem ! ■ 
 
 2. Munde Joseph, Virgo. Accipe Filiam Immaculatl Dei, en mire 
 orat. 
 
 3. Coage modo, pie in Maria triumpha, ecce almi Dei Filium nutries. 
 
 4. Ope felici clam mi, mi, mi, Magni Dei, ceu Orphanas Tu eris adjutor. 
 
 5. Fame cadam, i, i, Josephe, vi precor, i, jam i, collige, da 
 nutrimentum. 
 
 6. Ito mi Philomela Maria, ecce fide ac ope Viri Dei nutris Magnum. 
 
 7. Almi pii Josephi Virgo, re, fide. Mater immaculate munda occine. 
 
 8. lo ! en cor Dei Vir Joseph, ut lilium me Mariam fide magna 
 accepit. 
 
 9. Hunc fidelem Custodem ac pii tori uni Mariae parem eligo, i, jam. 
 10. I Joseph illumina me, pacifica Deum iratum, Agno Dei, certe miro. 
 
 Klimeccius, 
 in his Decas. 
 
 Matt. ii. i. Anagrammata. 
 
 Jesus Christus in Bethleem Judas Ah, hie exortus Deus amare flet, is 
 nascitur, ex Maria factus homo. situs inter asinum et bovem. 
 
 1674. Carolus a S. Antonio. , 
 
 Matt. ii. 3. 
 Audiens autem Herodes rex, Tu ex Barathro Jesum destrues 
 turbatus est. an te Deus.? (F.) 
 
112 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Matt. vi. 9-13. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. 
 
 Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. 
 
 Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie. 
 
 Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus 
 
 nostris. 
 Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. Sed libera nos a malo. Amen. 
 
 Anagramma Dominicum. 
 
 I. 
 Oratio ad Jesulum * humani generis delicium. 
 
 Flos mundi ! quern tot nictentia sidera pingunt, 
 Et casto tractare sinu, et mordere labellis 
 Attentat IVIater ! cape quas tibi dedico dona. 
 Te sine non vivam ! Mundi mi nomina sordent ; 
 Tsedet ; Honos, Veneres sunt sicut somnia noctis ; 
 Rideo stultorum risus ; ut somnus abibunt 
 Omnia ; Vita tibi (Jesvs) in fine manebit. 
 
 Hoc Anagramma. 
 
 Magno animo inchoatum. 
 Majore labore perfectum. 
 Maximo honore et amore. 
 D. D. D. 
 
 B. A. B. S. I. 
 
 Anno MDCLvii. 
 
 i.e. BoHusLAus Aloysius Balbinus, S.J. 
 * This was the Bambino in His Mother's arms. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 113 
 
 Anagramma Dominicum. 
 
 II. 
 
 Ad Imperatorem Leopoldum I. directum. 
 
 SI DeVs pro IMperatore sit, flLIVs InlqVItatIs frVstra apponet 
 
 noCere el = 1680. 
 
 Mundi Majestas, Orbisque o nobile sidus ! 
 
 O Juris sublime decus, permagna venustas ! 
 
 O CAESAR Leopolde ! Tuus tremor hostibus Instat, 
 
 Tutator Tua Serta, Tuam defendito terram. 
 
 Annuit intentum concinno stamine caelum : 
 
 Stat Deus intentus (nonne intima meta Tibimet ?) 
 
 Concinno qui rite indit bona dedita fini. 
 
 Laurentius Baptista, S.J., 
 
 in his Decas Honori Sereniano, 1680. 
 
 Anagramma Dominicum. 
 
 III. 
 
 AUocutio ad Neo-Pragam. 
 
 ALtlor aDVersVs sVeCos neo-praga trIVMpha ! 
 
 In bello natam ornatam munimine Martis, 
 
 Virtutem ostentas, bene quam notet orbis uterque. 
 
 O animi Urbs nunc invicti ! Tot dona nitescunt 
 
 Inde tibi : noscet totus tua lumina Mundus, 
 
 ^tas intendet tibi dictas amodo dotes 
 
 Indiciis laetis in fines deferet omnes. 
 
 Laurentius Baptista, S.J., 
 
 in his Appendix (4 pp.) to the 
 
 Decas Sacr. Anag., 1672. 
 
 a as 
 
 Computus Literarum (I — III), 
 bed efghi Imnopqr s t u 
 19 2 6 7 10 23 2 I I 29 5 13 26 19 2 2 II 20 30 19 
 
 SuMMA, 247, 
 
 8 
 
114 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 Anagramma Dominicum. 
 IV. 
 Laudamus Te, Pater Creator, Fili Amator, Spiritus Sanctificator, beata 
 Trinitas, ostende nobis tuam misericordiam et salvi erimus : dimitte tot 
 nostra debita, bone Deus, ut tuto vivamus in te numen. Memento 
 nunc anhelantis, Domine, quin mente benigne nitens salutis dono dita 
 nos bonisque cunctos indue.* 
 
 Anagramma Dominicum. 
 V. 
 O tota mente constans Deum fontem sitiens, diabolum non timebo qui 
 tot notis donis invidet, quot ostendit et in nos instillat Deus. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum ; benedicta tu in mulieribus, 
 et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora 
 pro nobis, nunc et in hora mortis. Amen.* 
 
 (MS.) L. DE Vriese, 1640 — 1723. 
 
 Anagramma Dominicum. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Totus nunc in te toto presens, nosti necessitates. 
 
 1 . Da, si tibi libet, in mundo te sequi. 
 
 2. Imo nullo instanti separari. 
 
 3. Da nostros carnales motus vincere. 
 
 4. Nunquam imbribus gratie destitui. 
 
 5. Necnon voluntate tue mandanti omnimode submitti. 
 
 6. Da mihi, morte bona secuta, te Deo frui. 
 
 7. Da Defunctis vitam eternam. , . 
 
 ' 1716. Anon. 
 
 From Praparaiio et gratiarum actio Missa, 
 Montibus, i2mo. 
 
 Probatio (IV— VI). 
 abed efghi Imn opqr s t u 
 19 6 7 10 25 "2 I I 29 5 13 26 19 2 2 II 20 30 19 
 
 Summa, 247. 
 * From a MS. of 430 pp., preserved in .the library of the Seminary at Bruges, 
 entitled Litanix Lauretance SS, Noininis Jesu et divi Bernardi. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 115 
 
 Matt. vi. 9, 10. 
 
 Pater noster, qui es"; in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat 
 regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cselo et in terra. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Te illuc cantent, Divina voluntas ! 
 Vocatum est Nomen Ejus Jesus 
 Qui confirmat praeterita, scit futura. 
 Regnat in aeternum. 
 
 Matt. vi. 11. 
 Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie. 
 
 Anagram m ata. 
 
 1. Nutrit nos pane Homo Dei. Num do quid .'' Amabis. 
 
 2. Quis hos nutrit pane mundo ? Homo Dei. Da bima. 
 
 3. Quid .'' Per sonum Deus homini donabat monita. 
 
 4. An adsum bonis ? Homo non perit qui it ad Deum. 
 
 5. Bonis adsum. An homo perit, qui it ad Deum .'' Non. 
 
 6. Sion ! numquid pro homine Deus monita dabat. 
 
 Matt. vi. 12, 13. 
 
 P. Et dimitte nobis debita nostra. 
 A. Dimittet ; et nobis reis dat bona. 
 
 Sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. 
 
 Cur sistis .'' Dimitto : Remittit nobis bonus Deus. 
 
 Et ne nos inducas in tentationem. 
 Nimie canite : l Deus non tentat nos. 
 
 Sed libera nos a malo. 
 O alme Libane, das ros ? 
 
 L. J. Caris. 
 His own MS. (1854). See Bibliography. 
 
ii6 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Matt. viii. 2. Anagrammata. 
 
 Leprosus veniens, adorabat Jesum. Jesu notus es : lepra mundaris 
 
 ab eo. 
 
 1665. Pomp. Salvi. 
 
 Matt. viii. 5. 
 
 Accessit ad Jesum centurio, rogans. Dico : ecce is servum rogantis 
 
 sanat. 
 
 Pomp. Salvi. 
 
 Matt. viii. 8. 
 
 Domine, non sum dignus ut intres Tu bone erga me, Domine, dabis 
 sub tectum meum ; sed tantum in munus tuum Castitatem, dein 
 die verbo, et sanabitur anima mea. terra donum sustentans, cibum 
 
 meum. 
 
 171 6. Prafaratio et 
 gratiarum actio. 
 
 Matt. ix. 20. 
 Mulier quae sanguinis fluxum patie- Fimbria ejus, quem purum luce 
 batur. tangis, salvat. 
 
 Pomp. Salvi. 
 
 Matt. x. 16. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Ego mitto vos sicut oves in medio luporum. Estote ergo prudentes 
 sicut serpentes. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Innocentius. Sic rogo tot Reges Europe ut Memetus hostis sepultus 
 
 Dei ope dometur. 
 
 Anon. 1684, Genuae.* 
 
 * This was an anagram addressed to the contemporary Pope Innocent XL, who 
 was then exhorting the Princes of Catholic Europe to meet the Turkish danger. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 117 
 
 Matt. xii. 25. 
 
 Omne regnum divisum contra se, 
 desolabitur. 
 
 Matt. xiii. 45. 
 
 Simile est regnum coelorum ho- 
 mini negotiatori, quserenti bonas 
 margaritas. 
 
 Matt. xiii. 46. 
 
 Inventa autem una pretiosa 
 margarita vendidit omnia et emit 
 earn. 
 
 Matt. xvi. 18. 
 
 Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram 
 asdificabo Ecclesiam meam. 
 
 Matt. xvi. 24. 
 ToUat crucem suam, et sequatur 
 
 me. 
 
 Matt. xxii. 21. 
 
 Reddite ergo quae sunt Caesaris, 
 Cassari ; et quas sunt Dei, Deo. 
 
 Matt. xxvi. 15. 
 
 Quid vultis mlhi dare, et ego vobis 
 eum tradam ? 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. En votum, Turcarum dissensio, 
 Belgradi omen. 
 
 2. Sic erit : Germanus Domino 
 Deo subruet Lunam. 
 
 1689. G. VANDEN Eede, S.J. 
 
 O Gemma nitorls egregii si orbi 
 nostro reluces, nonne quia Mater 
 Immaculata? (B.) 
 
 Tu, Maria, Dei Mater intacta, venis 
 ut nova mea Gemma et nova 
 Paradisi Porta. (B.) * 
 
 Spectet Se, Amicam reformet Haeres 
 Clavium Benedictus Papa. (F.) 
 
 O Eques Melitae Turcam macta- 
 turus. 
 
 Reges, Ducesque quasrite, ite ad 
 terras Juds ; Joannes adsto. 
 
 Anon. 1684, Genuas. 
 
 Adi, miser, aurum quod te hostem 
 Dei jugulabit. 
 1688. Miscell. Acad. Ravenna. 
 
 * Anagram is so printed, but there has been a bhinder somewhere. I have 
 made it pure and perfect byreading " preciosa " in the Vulgate, which is monkish Latin, 
 and transforming the anagram thus : " O Tu Maria et Dei Mater intacta, en venis in 
 me ut nova Gemma Paradisi ! " 
 
ii8 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATieA 
 
 Matt. xxvi. 21. 
 
 Amen dico vobis, quia 
 vestrum me traditurus est. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 unus Detur Judas Iscariotes avens 
 numorum quibus tumet. 
 
 1665. Pomp. Salvi. 
 
 Matt. xxvi. 69. 
 Accessit ad Petrum una ancilla. 
 
 Cadant lacrymse planctu ejus. 
 
 Pomp. Salvi. 
 
 Matt, xxvii. 46. 
 
 Deus meus, Deus meus, ut quid Seu stem, seu sudem, qui tu 
 ■'' deliquium derides ? (F.) 
 
 dereliquisti me 1 
 
 Matt, xxvii. 54. 
 
 Centurio autem, et qui cum eo Horres Mons Feretrane ? Ut 
 
 erant, custodientes Jesum, viso commendet te die Mariae : Ini- 
 
 terrae motu, et his quae fiebant, quitates meas tute vivent absque 
 
 timuerunt valde. vultu tuo : juves cito.* (F.) 
 
 Matt, xxviii. 
 
 In nomine Patris, 
 Spiritus sancti. 
 
 19. 
 et Filii, 
 
 et I. Sine Trinitate peristi, fili ! 
 Nam Pontius sic ! 
 2. Pilatus sine Trinitate perit ; 
 sic finis omni ! 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 * The parish of the learned author of this and so many other anagrams, both 
 Biblical and liturgical, was so situated as to be very subject to earthquakes. Several 
 anagrams in his rare printed work refer to Term motus and Terra tremens, and he 
 sometimes gives the dates and circumstances. He does so for the present anagram. 
 It seems that on May 4th, 1727, there were two rather terrifying earthquake shocks, 
 one after the other. Then on May nth, just a week after, there was another, which 
 our author tells us roused the whole sleeping diocese of Feretri to implore the 
 assistance of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Our author, who was Bishop of Feretri 
 at this time, and had held that position for some few years, did his share in the 
 supplications to the Virgin, through the above anagram, as well as, no doubt, by the 
 ritual services proper to his office. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 119 
 
 Marc. lii. 35. Anagrammata. 
 
 Qui enim fecerit voluntatem Dei, Quis non horreret, tremeret, si 
 
 hie frater meus, et soror mea, et videret effiei tota maeula Te vestem 
 
 mater est. meam.? (F.) 
 
 MARc.vii. 32. 
 
 Adducunt Jesu surdum et mxitum. Audin' tu surde dum tecum mutus.? 
 
 P. Salvi. 
 
 Marc. viii. 22. 
 
 Adducunt Jesu caecum, et rogabant Euge, ut de vulgo tractum caren- 
 eum ut ilium tangeret. tem lumine abducit, sanat. 
 
 P. Salvi. 
 
 Here end the anagrams on the first two Gospels, those on Mark 
 being, strange to say, only three in number. Why this Gospel has been 
 so neglected by all the Biblical Anagrammatists I know not ; but we shall 
 find this neglect atoned for by the immense number, and in many cases 
 by the wonderful appropriateness and beauty, of the anagrams taken from 
 the Gospel of Luke which meet us in the following pages. The reason 
 why Luke is so favoured is no doubt because he gives a fuller and more 
 striking account of the virgin birth and early life of our Lord, and 
 especially of Gabriel's visit to the Virgin. The very first anagram from 
 Luke deals with this subject, and is also a most remarkable specimen of 
 the assonance of good monkish rhyme. This anagram has given me 
 some trouble, but I think it was worth the time taken over it. When 
 first printed it had several typographical errors, which never seem to 
 have received the author's correction ; consequently the Probatio Liter arum 
 showed it to be an impure anagram, with some letters added and some 
 omitted. However, by a little patience, I found out the printer's 
 mistakes, and have been able thus to present it pure and perfect, as the 
 devout old monkish lovers of the art said all Anagrammata Virginea 
 should ever be. 
 
I20 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Luc. i. 26-33. 
 
 Missus est angelus Gabriel a Deo 
 in civitatem Galileae, cui nomen 
 Nazareth, 
 
 Ad virginem desponsatam viro, 
 cui nomen erat Joseph, de domo 
 David, et nomen virginis Maria. 
 
 Et ingressus angelus ad eam 
 dixit : Ave, gratia plena ; Dominus 
 tecum ; benedicta tu in mu- 
 lieribus. 
 
 Qu£e cum audisset, turbata est 
 in sermone ejus, et cogitabat qualis 
 esset ista salutatio. 
 
 Et ait angelus ei : Ne timeas, 
 Maria, invenisti enim gratiam 
 apud Deum ; 
 
 Ecce concipies in utero, et 
 paries filium, et vocabis nomen 
 ejus Jesvm. 
 
 Hie erit magnus, et Filius 
 Altissimi vocabitur, et dabit illi 
 Dominus Deus sedem David, 
 patris ejus ; et regnabit in domo 
 Jacob in aeternum, 
 
 Et regni ejus non erit finis. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Cor et lingua pulsa coelos. 
 Novum laudis pande melos, 
 
 Suavi mentis jubilo. 
 Castitatis tange tonos, 
 Charitatis pange sonos, 
 
 In hoc mundi nubilo. 
 Ave, Verbi summi Parens, 
 Rosa pulchra dumis carens, 
 
 Mare Dei mirabile. 
 Eja, Ave, Fons virtutum, 
 Tu Idea, mite Scutum, 
 
 Castitate amabile. 
 Eja, tu es Dei Ignis, 
 Recte et es Flos insignis, 
 
 Regina tu es nobilis. 
 Eja, tu es Lux beata, 
 Dei Magnes, Nubes grata, 
 
 Tu et Mons immobilis. 
 Eja, ecce, Ratis digna. 
 Apis Dei, en benigna, 
 
 Et Cedrus Dei nitida. 
 Tu insigne Vitas lignum, 
 Dei vivi Sidus dignum, 
 
 Materque es Candida. 
 Veni, veni, Mater Dei, 
 Miserere quaeso mei, 
 
 Me miti fove gratia. 
 Dei Mater et Patrona, 
 Mitis Vitis, Dei Zona, 
 
 Me nunc et in morte satia. 
 
 ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTVXZ. 
 
 52 10 15 21 69 3 14 3 75 15 29 39 23 7 2 23 44 44 43 I I. 
 
 SUMMA, 533. 
 
 1666. Adalb. Tylkowsky, S.J. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 121 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum ; benedicta tu in mulieribus. 
 
 Anagramma Hexametrum et Pent. 
 
 I . Si lumbis Adami mariat origine pure, 
 Ut vere est ; uni debita nee macula. 
 
 Joannes Evangelista a Panormo. 
 
 2. Diva benigna Dei Mater, Picenum jam in luctu a terre motibus 
 Salva.* 
 
 1672. Pierre de S. Louis. 
 
 3. Eja, ecce novum Templum Dei, nitida Iris, Luna, Tuba, Nubes, 
 Margarita. 
 
 4. En cara summi Dei Porta, earumve Lilium, nitida Tuba, Nubes 
 et ignea. 
 
 Adalb. Tylkowsky, S.J. 
 
 5. Divine Immaculata it protegens in sinu Albertum Bavarise Ducem. 
 
 1729. (B.) 
 
 Luc. i. 28. Anagramma. 
 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus I, ter lauda ritu ubivis Unam 
 tecum ; benedicta tu in mulieribus. Magni Dei Matrem, sine labe a 
 
 conceptu. 
 
 This anagram was oiFered with an epigram to Pope Pius IX. in 
 1869, by a devout Catholic, who dedicated them, to his Holiness as 
 follows : — 
 
 "Pio IX. P. M. qui fidei dogma de immaculata Deiparse semper 
 Virginis Conceptione abhinc annis xv. definivit Auctor ad Cathedram 
 veritatis flexis humillime genibus Supremi Hierarchae benedictionem 
 portulans, velut tenuissimum animi plurimum gaudentis pignus cum 
 anagrammate ofFert." (From La Vergine, Roma, VI., p. 408.) 
 
 * Composed on the great earthquake at Rimini, Urbino, etc., April 14th, 1672. 
 
122 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Benedicta tu in mulieribus. 
 
 Anagram M ATA. 
 
 1 . I Mater Dei lucet in nubibus. 
 
 2 . I urbs ubi mel candet in vite. 
 
 3. Candebit lumine vite i urbs. 
 
 4. Ibi revitibus candet lumen. 
 
 5. Luce nube trini dabit Jesum. 
 
 6. Tibi, Munde, lucens ver abiit. A. C. Redelius. 
 
 7. Libani et Rubi munite decas. 
 
 8. Vitiet nubes Cedrum Libani ? 
 
 9. Suntne Libri Debiti cum Eva ? (F.) 
 
 Luc. i. 30. Anagrammata. 
 
 Ne timeas, Maria, invenisti gratiam Idea genitura erat pia, si unit 
 
 apud Deum. Immensum Adam. (F.) 
 
 Luc. i. 38. 
 
 Dixit autem Maria : Ecce ancilla i . Vix erit hie fumus amati Dei, 
 Domini, fiat mihi secundum verbum et ob id jam clanculum emi 
 
 tuum. Deum Incarnatum. (F.) 
 
 2. Ubi draconem Immaculata vici. 
 Mater fui Dei Summi : hinc 
 Mundi exultate. (B.) 
 
 Luc. i. 38. 
 Ecce ancilla Domini, fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1 . Immove Hie, ilia tunc facie erubuit mundum medicans. 
 
 1672. Pierre de S. Louis. 
 
 2. Ecce Columba, nitidum Lumen, Unda, Thus mirificum. 
 
 3. Mel, Flumen, Buccina, nitida Theca, Cor vivum Summi Dei. 
 
 1666. Adalb. Tylkowsky. 
 
 4. Vellem hie Verbum Divinum mite nasci, fac, cito munda. 
 
 5. Vici Verbum humilitate, nunc de coelis micam fundam. 
 
 1688. Klimeccius (Messis). 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 123 
 
 Luc. i. 40. Anagramma. 
 
 Intravit Maria in domum Zachanae, Mirum ! Joannes hilaris uti haedus 
 et salutavit Elisabeth. saltat, ac ita etiam beatur. 
 
 1665. P. Salvi. 
 
 Luc. i. 39-42. 
 
 (De visitante EHsabetham.) 
 
 Exurgens Maria abiit in montana cum festinatione, in civitatem Juda ; 
 et intravit in domum Zacharias, et salutavit Elisabeth. Et factum est, 
 ut audivit salutationem Mariae Elisabeth, exultavit infans in utero ejus, 
 et repleta est Spiritu sancto Elisabeth ; et exclamavit voce magna, et 
 dixit : Benedicta tu inter mulieres. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Ah benedicta Dei Genitrix ! ah Mater Jesu ! 
 
 Tu electa es Patrona, 
 
 Tu, et pie coeli Zona, 
 
 Et Virgo admirabilis. 
 Tu et nitens Lux salutis, 
 
 Et invictae Fons virtutis, 
 
 Ah Fons adamabilis ! 
 Sancta Tutrix charitate, 
 
 Et Adjutrix bonitate, 
 
 Et Balsamum mentium. 
 Eja, eja, vitae Flumen, 
 
 * Casta mentis mite Lumen, 
 
 Eja tu Nectar, et Vita viventium. 
 
 A. Tylkowsky, S.J. 
 
 Probatio Literarum. 
 
 abcdefghi Imnopr s t uxz 
 32 4 8 4 34 3 2 4 34 9 12 17 7 2 10 14 35 22 3 I 
 
 Summa, 257. 
 * For Casta in the anagramma read Sandce, and it is perfect. 
 
1^4 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 The Magnificat. 
 
 Luc. i. 46-55. 
 
 The entire Magnificat, with its accompanying Doxology, is here 
 presented, and followed by two metrical anagrams (in elegiacs and 
 hexameters respectively) and one prose anagram. 
 
 Luc. i. 46-55. 
 Programma. 
 
 Magnificat anima mea Dominum ; 
 
 Et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salutari meo, 
 
 Quia respexit humilitatem anciUae suae ; ecce enim ex hoc beatam me 
 
 dicent omnes generationes ; 
 Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est, et sanctum nomen ejus. 
 Et misericordia ejus a progenie in progenies timentibus eum. 
 Fecit potentiam in brachio suo ; dispersit superbos mente cordis sui. 
 Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles. 
 Esurientes implevit bonis, et divites dimisit inanes. 
 Suscepit Israel, puerum suum, recordatus misericordiae suae. 
 Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros, Abraham et semini ejus in saecula. 
 
 Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto ; sicut erat in principio, et nunc, 
 et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 125 
 
 The Magnificat. 
 Luc. i. 46-55. 
 
 Anagramma I. 
 
 Immaculata nitet ; sic vi concepta Maria, 
 
 Labe caret sceleris Virgo, simulque Parens ; 
 En nitet alma sedens in viva pace ; triumphis, 
 
 Enitet en Coetus Vita, Sionis Honos. 
 Ilia dies veniet, qua victrix Roma jubebit 
 
 Mox tute in toto credier Orbe Fide. 
 Id Rex Hispanus deposcit, amore repletus, 
 
 Christiadum Coetus pectore, voce petit. 
 Nempe Salus olim fulgebit nomine pacis, 
 
 Mox tot item festis vivet, et ipsa quies. 
 Decidat eia Sathan nimie depressus in Orcum, 
 
 Eia Marianum stemma repente canat 
 Nempe fures misere curis repleatur Avernus, 
 
 Eia miser ; moestus tempus in omne gemat. 
 Et Vis divini sit nominis eia vigescat, 
 
 Gaudeat, ac Orbis gestiat eia Polus. 
 O Thus, o lumen sit Numinis. Eia nitescat, 
 
 Ceu, miti splendens Sidere, mitis Eos. 
 
 Clavis Literarum. 
 
 a b c d e f g h i Imnopqr s tux 
 46 6 24 14 83 4 6 6 76 15 33 37 29 19 3 29 55 54 43 4 
 
 Omnes simul = 586. 
 
 1668. Lucas Carolucius, 
 From Caramuel's Rhythmica, p. 723, Campaniee, 1668, fol. 
 
126 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 The Magnificat. 
 Luc. i. 46—55. 
 
 Anagramma II. 
 Anagramma et Acrostichon, et in ultimo Hexametro 
 
 Cabalisticon. 
 Semper honos Francisce tuus, nomenque manebit 
 Faelix Dive piis et justis digne triumphis, 
 Respice nos Clemens ex aetheris aede patentis 
 Ac inter Divos caelesti sede receptus, 
 Nosce Dei mites socios, et nomine Jesv 
 Caelitibus devota piis, et sicut oliva 
 Insignis pietate cohors te semper amabit ; 
 Sic Mundi Custos virtutum maxima natu 
 Clementem divina diu dementia servet, 
 Ut vivat, videatque Petri mitissimus annos. 
 Suavi sit nobis et miti faustus amore : 
 Borgia divina cum Maj estate Triumphet. 
 O Clemens Tiberine Pater, de flumine magno 
 Romanas pietatis honos, altissima rerum 
 Gloria, pax justo mitissima regnet in aevo 
 Imperiique parens Ecclesia cuncta serenet. 
 Austria cum certa Leopoldi prole perennet ! 
 
 1 67 1. Anon. Pragse. 
 
 This remarkable anagram occurs in a book produced by the Jesuits 
 of the Clementine College at Prague in 1 671, on the occasion of the 
 canonization of Franciscus Borgia, a former well-known general of their 
 order. It is composed in the strictest manner, diphthongs being undi- 
 vided, and the cabalistic line at end giving 1671 is unusual. The book 
 is in the Bibliography, s.v. Divo Francisco Borgia encomia, etc., 1672. 
 
 Clavis Literarum et Probatio. 
 A^BCDEFGHILMNOPQ 
 
 39 7 6 26 16 76 4 6 6 76 15 33 37 29 19 3 
 
 R S T V X 
 
 29 55 54 43 4 SuMMA, 586. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 127 
 
 The Magnificat. 
 Luc. i. 46-55. 
 
 Anagramma III. 
 
 1. Exto munus Dei Mater Immaculata. Tu a nota originis fies 
 immunls. Plaudite earn. 
 
 2. Ah benedicta Regina Empirei ! Ecce nonne ex hoste sumo te, a te 
 quia excellentissime Immaculata. 
 
 3. Oh quis benignius, o quis Matre Jesu sit purius.? Summe, 
 peregregie, eminentissime nitet : peccato etiim Adae omnino 
 intacta. 
 
 4. Oh sors ! Ut in toto Dei esses et Immaculata, ecce Deus ipse te 
 benedixit, hosti superbiam pressit, et in profundo depulit. 
 
 5. Vive Dei parens piissima : ut reor mitescere debes lucidissime et 
 nitidissime Immaculata protinus ero servus tuus. 
 
 6. Oh tu nescis lapsus et errores Adas ! Ubi nunc es tota sistis 
 Immaculata. 
 
 7. Puri Spiritus ore pio confiteantur electam Jesu. Ecce regnet prope 
 in iUo Sanctae Trinitatis sinu Immaculata. 
 
 Probatio. 
 
 abed efghi 1 mn o pqr s t ux 
 
 46 6 24 14 83 4 6 6 76 15 23 37 29 19 3 29 55 54 43 4 
 
 Summa, 586. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Luc. ii. 4-7. 
 Programma. 
 
 Ascendit autem et Joseph a Galilasa de civitate Nazareth, in Judaeam, in 
 civitatem David, quae vocatur Bethlehem ; eo quod esset de domo 
 et familia David, 
 
 Ut profiteretur cum Maria desponsata sibi uxore praegnante. 
 
 Factum est autem, cum essent ibi, impleti sunt dies ut pareret. 
 
 Et peperit filium suum primogenitum, et pannis eum involvit, et reclinavit 
 eum in prassepio, quia non erat eis locus in diversorio. 
 
128 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Anagramma I. 
 
 O mire Omnipotentis Nate ! O Nata et Puerpera ! tu Dei peperisti 
 Natum, o Mater dilecta, Fons vitas et Vita inefFabilis ! O mi Nate, 
 o Puer candide et rubicunde, electe ex millibus. Tu vere Gemma, 
 et pia Zona pietatis tu pie Vitis, Rosa, mitis Leo et Unicornis ! * Quid 
 carius et quid praecellentius fuit, quod Deus dare mundo potuit ? Ah 
 pium gratumve gratiarum donum ! Ah animas meae sunt deliciae esse 
 cum Jesu et Maria ! A. Tylkowsky, SJ. 
 
 
 
 Probatio. 
 
 
 
 a 
 
 b c 
 
 d efgh ilmn 
 
 p q 
 
 r s t u X z 
 
 31 
 
 3 9 
 
 13 47 4 3 4 40 9 18 17 16 
 
 12 3 
 
 16 17 32 31 I I 
 
 SUMMA, 327. 
 
 Anagramma II. 
 Ave, Mundi coelorumque Princeps. Candidum Angelorum Diadema, 
 et beatum Beatitudinis Templum. Tu Nubes pietatis et Fidei 
 Topazion : purusque Fons poenitentium. Mea meae vitae animaeve 
 Anchora. Mea Deive Gemma et Delicium. Ah pete et da, Datrix 
 salutis, salutem vitse prsesentis et futuras, per Filii tui merita cui, et 
 Patri, et Spiritui Sancto, sit honor, decus et gloria. 
 
 Probatio. 
 Progr. 
 
 abcdefghilmnopqrstuxz 
 31 3 9 13 47 4 3. 4 40 9 18 17 16 12 3 16 17 32 31 i i 
 
 Anagr. 
 
 8 44 3 34 8 17 15 12 14 15 31 28 
 
 c Progr., 127. 
 
 OUMMA, A 
 
 Anagr., 300. 
 
 Therefore the anagram is defective by twenty-seven letters as printed 
 by Tylkowsky. It can be made perfect by reading, in place of Tu 
 Nubes down to posnitentium, the following : O Mater Christi, Nubes 
 pietatis, Fidei Topazion: purusque Fons poenitentium, nos ovile Dei e vi 
 tua uni. 
 
 * Ps, xxix. 6, 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 129 
 
 Luc. ii. 10, II, 12. 
 
 Ecce evangelizo vobis gaudium 
 magnum, quod erit omni populo: 
 Quia natus est vobis hodie Salvator, 
 qui est Christus Dominus, in 
 civitate David. 
 
 Et hoc vobis signum : Invenietis 
 infantem pannis Involutum, et 
 positum in praesepio. 
 
 Luc. ii. 21. 
 Et postquam consummati sunt dies 
 octo, ut circumcideretur puer : 
 vocatum est nomen ejus Iesvs, 
 quod vocatum est ab angelo 
 priusquam in utero conciperetur. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 lo Iesv. Tu pius Princeps, et 
 pius es Zelator. Tu Origo boni- 
 tatis, Thus Fonsque divinae 
 dulcedinis, Holocaustum vivum, 
 Diademaque beatitudinis : ingens 
 Pelagus Omnipotentis, tuque 
 insignis omnium hominum Umbo, 
 Vita ac Corona. 
 
 A. Tylkowsky, SJ. 
 
 Ecce, o Puer Deus, o Iesv, ecce 
 tu quasi Aquila, Ignis, Portus, tu 
 Doctor tu Petra, Mons, Scutum 
 et Corona : ecce tu Nitor, Pondus, 
 Bonum, atque immensum virtutis 
 Mare. 
 
 A. Tylkowsky, S.J. 
 
 Luc. ii. 22, 24. 
 Programma. 
 Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis Mariae secundum legem Moysi, 
 tulerunt Iesvm in Jerusalem, ut sisterent eum Domino, et ut darent 
 hostiam secundum quod dictum est in lege Domini, par turturum, aut 
 duos puUos columbarum. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 O Maria, coeli Rosa, 
 Stella mundi gloriosa, 
 Candidumque puritatis Speculum. 
 Virgo, tu es Munimentum 
 Cordis, Dos et Lenimentum 
 Et Apis, et Mel mentium. 
 Teda, Turtur, Dei Hortus, 
 Tuba, Sydus, Summus Portus 
 Dignumque Lumen poenitentium. 
 
 A. Tylkowsky, S.J. 
 
 9 
 
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 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Luc. ii. 48. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 O fill mi, ego et pater tuus dolentes qusrebamus te. 
 
 Anagram MATA. 
 
 1 . Tutor ; quia me tota vi luges, fles, bene mi Deo Pater es. 
 
 2. Totus age, at pro Te, fle dolens Jesum, qusre Tibi eum. 
 
 3. Tu pie, Beate, meta (quo regnas) Deo ; totus ferme illius. 
 
 4. Tutor fidelis, quo eges pane ? meo ? Mariae ? est ut lubet. 
 Ter alme Fili, e tot beatis unus, protege quseso Deum. 
 O mi Jesu et plebis Tutor, lege quaeso et da frumenta. 
 Saluber Patrone Jesu, quot e fide Almi, tot Te egemus. 
 Beate, tange, fer reo Deum, quia illius es ; totum potes. 
 Dei Tutor, quia bonus ut mille ; ergo a peste et fame es ? 
 Tam pie beate Tutor Deo (quo lilium es) fauste regnes. 
 
 1696. Klimeccius, 
 
 Decas Decadum. 
 
 5 
 
 9 
 10 
 
 Luc. vii. II. 
 Ibat Jesus in civitatem, quae vo- 
 catur Nairn. 
 
 Luc. xi. 14. 
 Erat Jesus ejiciens dasmonium, et 
 illud erat mutum. 
 
 Luc. xiv. 1. 
 Homo quidam hydro picus erat 
 ante Jesum. 
 
 Luc. XV. 18, 19. 
 Pater, peccavi in coelum, et coram 
 te ; jam non sum dignus vocari 
 filius tuus. 
 
 Anagramma (t additur). 
 En suscitat natum matri, quae ei 
 ivit obvia. 
 
 P. Salvi. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 En multi mirati sunt ; jam vere 
 idem, ea die locutus es. 
 
 P. Salvi. 
 
 Quae mihi opto remedia hie donat 
 sursum. 
 
 P. Salvi. 
 
 Deus Pater mavult nunc ignosci 
 peccatori, en suum filium jam 
 serio vocat. 
 
 1 7 1 6 . Praparatio. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 131 
 
 Luc. xvli. 19. Anagrammata. 
 
 Ait illi : Surge, vade ; quia fides Quid ! lasta salute urges me, Fili 
 tua te salvum fecit. Dei ? Fac uti vis. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 Luc. xviii. 13. 
 Deus, propitius esto mihi peccatori. Itero hodie, propitius sum peccatis. 
 
 1 7 1 6 . Pr^eparatio. 
 
 Luc. xviii. 35. 
 Caecus quidam sedebat secus viam, Quam bene vides ! sic ad sanctum 
 mendicans. accedas Jesum. 
 
 P. Salvi. 
 
 Luc. xix. 10. 
 Venit enim Filius hominis quaerere Fili Dei, hominisque Repertor ! 
 et salvum facere quod perierat. Senui : Naviter quaere, et salvum 
 
 me fac. 
 
 L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 Luc. xxiii. 12. 
 Facti sunt amici Herodes et Ah, Vulpes, in fide pacis iistis 
 Pilatus in ipsa die. contra deitatem. 
 
 P. Salvi. 
 
 Luc. xxiii. 34. 
 Pater, dimitte illis ; non enim Stant fini qui me illicitis tundunt : 
 sciunt quid faciunt. Parce Domine. (F.) 
 
 Luc. xxiii. 43. 
 Amen dico tibi : Hodie mecum Hie si Civem Dei te nomino, 
 eris in Paradise. prima sidera dabo. (F.) 
 
 Luc. xxiii. 46. 
 Pater, in manus tuas commendo i. Ut prosim, prius ama Nomen 
 spiritum meum. Sanctum Dei, turn me. 
 
 2. Prosit Puris Nomen Sanctum 
 Dei, mutum me ama. (F.) 
 
132 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 THE ANGELICAL SALUTATION : " AVE, MARIA, GRATIA 
 PLENA; DOMINVS TECVM " 
 
 The anagrams on these famous words of Gabriel to Mary are so 
 numerous, so ingenious, and with a few exceptions so little known, that 
 I have thought it best to take them out of their usual course in the 
 first chapter of St. Luke, and reserve a special chapter for them here at 
 the end of the Synoptic Gospels. 
 
 So many different attempts have been put forth by the laborious 
 and patient anagrammatists on this Salutation to the Virgin Mary, that 
 some sort of arrangement is absolutely necessary, in order that we may 
 get a bird's-eye view of this remarkable section of literary endeavour. 
 I have chosen the chronological arrangement as the easiest and most 
 instructive, and thus each man's contribution comes in due order, with 
 his name and the date of his anagrammatical work placed at the head 
 of his selected specimens. And as the Bibliography is also in chrono- 
 logical order, there will be no difficulty in turning at once to the same 
 date in the Bibliography, and there finding a further account of the 
 book as it was published. 
 
 I have also divided these anagrams into four difFerent classes ; for 
 some of the enthusiastic professors of this difficult art, not content with 
 the labour of putting together hundreds of pure and appropriate 
 anagrams on this theme of the Angel's Salutation — in itself a work 
 enough to exhaust the patience of ninety men out of a hundred^ — have 
 actually made thousands of pure anagrams on this one theme all in verse, 
 i.e. in hexameters and pentameters ; while others, going further still in 
 this most trying exercise, have composed anagrammatic dialogues and 
 lives of noted personages out of the self-same letters of the programma 
 they have chosen to work upon. I have therefore divided my mass of 
 material under the four different heads of : — 
 
 I. Anagrammatic Dialogues. 
 II. Anagrammatic Lives. 
 
 III. Straightforward and pure anagrams either in prose or verse. 
 
 IV. Anagrams in other languages than Latin. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 133 
 
 I. ANAGRAMMATIC DIALOGUES COMPOSED ENTIRELY 
 OF THE LETTERS OF THE SALUTATIO ANGELICA: 
 "AVE, MARIA, GRATIA PLENA; DOMINVS TECVM " 
 
 A,fter considerable research, I have only discovered two writers who 
 have attempted this excessively difficult literary device. One was the 
 eccentric Pierre de St. Louis, a Carmelite, whose book is dated 1672, 
 and the other an Hungarian priest, who gave his contribution to the 
 public in a work published as recently as 1869. 
 
 The former deserves a few extra words of notice here, as he was 
 a writer of some fame, and one of his eccentric poems. La Magdeleine au 
 Desert de la Sainte Baume, went through several editions. But, what is 
 more to our purpose, he was also considered the most inveterate 
 anagrammatist of his own or any other age. Hardly a day passed 
 without several fresh ones being added to his enormous stock. " On 
 pretend^^ says his biographer, I'abbe Follard, '■'■quil avait anagrammatise 
 tous les papes, tous les empereurs, tous les rois de France, tous les generaux 
 de son ordre, et enfin tout le paradis^ He suffered martyrdom for it, too ; 
 for there was a very disagreeable brother Carmelite known by the name 
 of Pater Brocardus, whom no one liked. Our anagrammatist took his 
 name one day, and dubbed him Tardus et Crabro. This hit him off 
 exactly, and stuck by him, and the reverend Pater never forgot it ; and 
 when, not very long afterwards, he was chosen Provincial, he at once 
 made use of his acquired power by sending poor Pierre de St. Louis to 
 one of the worst, coldest, and most out-of-the-way convents the 
 Carmelites had — somewhere high up in the loneliest part of the Alps. 
 His works are little known now, though Voltaire wrote to Thiriot 
 (Feb. 7th, 1738) about a copy in his own library. My copy of his 
 UElidde, an heroic poem in three books, is the only one I have ever 
 seen ; but the anagrammatic work in my Bibliography is no doubt the 
 rarest of all. He seems to have been a very restless genius, and 
 horribly ugly — short and fat, with an enormous head. He was a 
 confirmed misogynist, and used to shut his eyes whenever he walked 
 in places where ladies might be met, which plan, as his biographer says, 
 " Vexposait a des heurts frequents." His enormous mass of anagrams in 
 
134 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 MS. disappeared long ago, having never reached the press. The only 
 one that seems to have escaped is his anagram on the Holy Eucharist, 
 which he put In this form : " Eucharistie, i.e. Chair est vie," and, of 
 course, that other unfortunate one also, just mentioned, which cost 
 him so many privations. 
 
 I believe that all his purely Biblical anagrams that are extant, are 
 collected in this present book. The few in his Epic on the Magdalen 
 (j>enes me) are good ; but they are not on texts, and are therefore 
 omitted here. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Pierre de St. Louis, Carmelite, 1672. 
 
 Anagrammatic Dialogue between Gabriel and the Blessed 
 
 Virgin. 
 
 Angel. Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 O Una pulcra erga Divinam Majestatem. 
 
 Eia, Anima Tanta Divum ac Regum Proles. 
 
 O Alma Diva, Nuntia summe grata recipe : 
 
 " Virgo, Alumna mea, Deum intacta paries." 
 Virgo. Legate, summa a te nuncia, pavida miror. 
 
 Angel. Id lumen ne timeas, Virgo pura ac amata. 
 
 Virgo. A Dei Nuncio salutata, eum, prima, geram. 
 
 Angel. Ama, o Magna Diva, inter mulieres caput. 
 
 Virgo [ad TDeum). Jam ita pure, tui amore languens cadam. 
 
 (Fulcite me floribus. Cant. ii. 5.) 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRA.MMATICUM 135 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 
 DiALOGus Anagrammaticus ex Salutatione Angelica : "Ave, 
 Maria, gratia plena ; Dominvs tecvm." 
 
 1869. KOVACIC. 
 
 Deus. Mariae V. salutem ! gratiam pace inundo. 
 
 Mar. Alma, Divina, eh Augusti mater compare ! 
 
 Angel. Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Mar. Ima gaudeo per salutem nunciata mira. 
 
 Pater. Ave, M. e manu Dei Patris cum gloria nata. 
 
 Mar. Num manu Dei, et palam ei Sacrata Virgo ? 
 
 Filius. Ave, M. noti Dei magni laus, ac pura mater ! 
 
 Mar. Nate, Virgone sum immaculata Deipara ? 
 
 Spir. Sane. Ave, Maria, de almo Spiritu area Genuina ! * 
 
 Mar. De Spiritu area, una tamen oliva gemma ? 
 
 Trinitas. Munda es Maria, et mea inculpata Virgo. 
 
 Mar. Promta ancila Dei, age ut manu serviam. 
 
 Sancti. Mater Domini ! palam veni care augusta. 
 
 Mar. Pura et clara inventa, summa Dei imago. 
 
 Eccles. Deo grate V. Maria, culpae immunis nata ! 
 
 Mar. Eram et adsum animas inculpata Virgo. 
 
 Natura. An V. Maria Deo grata, et culpae immunis } 
 
 Mar. O Natura ! gratia plene sum amica Dei, V. M. 
 
 Homo. Num nata es immaculate Deipara Virgo .'' 
 
 Mar. En sum immaculate nata Virgo Deipara. 
 
 Virtus. Manesne tu immaculata, Virgo, Deipara .'' 
 
 Mar. Grata maneo superni Dei V. immaculata. 
 
 Onus. Numve gratia Dei, persona immaculata ? 
 
 Mar. En immaculata, nam ego Deipara virtus. 
 
 Serpens. Num ea prodit vera signa Immaculatae } 
 
 Mar. Vide male : nam caput anguis tero, Maria. 
 
 Satan. Pura es immaculata, divina mater .'' nego. 
 
 Mar. Pura divina et sine macula orta gemma. 
 
 Ratio. Pura gemma a Dei nuncio mire salutata .'' 
 
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 It should be, I think: "Ave, M. de almo 
 
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 Euge pura, tota miranda, nescia mall, V. M. 
 Clemens V. Maria nata ut pura Dei imago. 
 Deipara sum inventa, ergo Immaculata. 
 Laude ii Reginam spera aut aram vocant. 
 Magna spera a Domini et V. Mariae cultu. 
 Tu area munda, ave, amoris igne impleta ! 
 Me ama, dilectio una prasmagna virtus. 
 Area de Sapientia Virgo, lumen amatum. 
 O Sapientia vident, clara gemma, aurum. 
 Grata ea anima clare ipsum Deum novit. 
 Magna Deltas ! per cultum ea novi, Maria. 
 Advena ! pete a Maria consilium gratum. 
 En ea amat aptum consilium grave dari. 
 Vis mea perraagna nota Dei cultu Maria ! 
 Alma superavit omnia ac grate in Deum. 
 Perge laudatum nova scientia Mariam. 
 Per votum Maria scientia laude magna. 
 Num amata Virgo cara pietas, lumen Dei ? 
 Pia clara et de Numine amata sum Virgo. 
 Domina grata, et speculum vitas, Maria. 
 Non amas ? Time age : par Dei cultu, V. Maria. 
 Num vi ac morte Agni Dei superata mala ^. 
 Tu loca spem tuam in Regem a divina ara. 
 O Sempiterni alumna, M. cara vita gaude. 
 Gaudet anima clarum sapere omni vita. 
 Non time culpari, sed ama, age ut V. Maria. 
 Ama jam ne pave : grata mors in Dei cultu. 
 Num Religio amata, servata mundi pace } 
 Magis placita munera aevi, donum arte. 
 Ave, M. Regina mundi tam justa ope clara. 
 Perge, lauda, nam veram justitiam cano. 
 Num Veritas, amor Dei Magni a pace luat .'' 
 Veritas odium parit : ama, cane ; Angelum. 
 Num super omne alma gratia Dei, ac vita.'' 
 Ave, Dei gratia plena sum, natura mico M. 
 Ama, ama in vita gloria Supernum decet. 
 

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 TEST AMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 137 
 
 Ama nempe una Dei tam virtus ac gloria. 
 V. Mariae gratia, munus in pacem de alto. 
 Summa pace orta V. M. ut Angeli in ara Dei. 
 Ordine, usu vitae, re magna palam micat. 
 Ite, cum Ave sum palam ordinata Regina. 
 In summo caritate plena, gaude V. Maria. 
 Nova per majestatem, in gaudium clara. 
 Ast num valet pro amici anima gaudere ? 
 Amat Numen, pro amicis agere laudavit. 
 Maria ut Viola, dura gemma, pace nitens. 
 Pulcrae vitse gemma, rosa Numini data. 
 Prima jam vita, ea decus Angelorum nata.* 
 Decus amo, per Angelum invitata Maria. 
 Eva in Paradiso ! num male gratia tecum 1 
 Casli gratia ! ipsum Deum non amaverat. 
 Te puram colimus, en amata, diva Regina ! 
 Numen amatis, apta vera cum gloria Dei. 
 Optima tu Virginem lauda, nam ea sacra. 
 Laus Deo ! en V. Maria per amictum agnita. 
 An metius } Carmine plaude, Virgo amata. 
 Vita mea cano gratiam, laudem Super ni. 
 Ara, palma, victorias signum ante Deum. 
 Super malum enata magna Dei victoria. 
 Cano, Ave, Maria, salutem mundi peragit. 
 Regina mundi salutem orta pace amavi. 
 Gaude victoria, nam alma item superna. 
 Aula Diva, tempe ima. Sanctorum Regina. 
 Una per gratiam, Dei manu, Sole amicta V. 
 Inde a gratia, vita, supernam amo lucem. 
 Nite, Luna, amo, V. Maria ! dum specie grata. 
 Vide Mariam, ut orta Luna specie magna. 
 O magna V. Maria, nam ut Sidera pie lucet. 
 Cara de Sapientia Virgo, lumen amatum. 
 En una tam pulcra imago Dei est V. Maria. 
 Vita sum uti palma decora, Regina. Amen. 
 So printed : but omit ea and read enata. 
 
138 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 This is certainly a most remarkable piece of work, in whatever 
 way we look at it. For an Hungarian priest to set himself down to 
 such a laborious attempt in the present busy and practical age is what 
 we should least expect. And then he has succeeded so remarkably well. 
 Thousands- and tens of thousands of anagrams had been composed on 
 this same special theme and on the very same words. One would 
 almost suppose the mine exhausted as far as real and appropriate 
 anagrams were concerned. But our modern Hungarian was able to 
 hold his own against the very best of the past-masters of the art. 
 This fine piece of anagrammatic work was written in 1869, so it is 
 possible that the writer may be still alive. 
 
 II. ANAGRAMMATIC LIVES COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF 
 THE LETTERS OF THE SALUTATIO ANGELICA 
 
 There are many lives of kings, and saints, and bishops, and other 
 notables, composed wholly out of the letters of their names, one 
 anagram after another being so suitably constructed, that when they are 
 all written down in order, we get the life of the person intended, from 
 his birth to his death, admirably expressed by the successive anagrams 
 of his name. To do this well is a very difficult task, and it is next to 
 impossible to write a good anagrammatic life of any kind, unless the 
 programma, or the name on which the life is to be constructed, contains 
 a good many letters. The more letters the original contains, the easier 
 does it become to frame the life. I suppose the fact of there only 
 being 3 1 letters in the Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum, was 
 one cause of there being only a single anagrammatic life of the Virgin, 
 and that a very short one. The author is one of the neatest masters 
 of the art known, viz. Pompeius Salvi, who made such excellent 
 responsive anagrams to short texts in the Psalms, and also composed a 
 most excellent rhythmical quatrain on this same programma of the Ave, 
 Maria. We shall come to this presently in its proper chronological 
 place in Section III., but in this present section we have to deal with 
 anagrammatic lives only. Here is Salvi's on Luke i. 28 : — 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 139 
 
 Programma. 
 ave, maria, gratia plena ; dominvs tecvm. 
 
 A^fAGRAMMATA CIRCA VlTAM B. V. M. FORMATA. 
 
 Jam valde pia est cum Anna Matre Virgo, 
 Magna vilium amica Deo praesentatur, 
 Jam mage Almae nunciatur (o !) partus Dei. 
 Nupta Dei Mater alma ac (en majus), Virgo, 
 Visita Cognatam ad aurem jure plenam. 
 Alma tua viscera, omni pia, Deum gerant. 
 Mater inviolata, Agnum ac Deum paries, 
 Si area, due Parem Angelorum, ita vitam, 
 I, cara Mater, Panem vivum Angelis dato 
 Matuta veni nee gravida Solem pariam ; 
 At secundum Evangelia tam mira pario, 
 Tu pia ac una Diva generas Immortalem, 
 Tu digna, aio, tu cara Emmanuelem paris. 
 Nata pace dium germinavi Salvatorem, 
 Diva summe clara in purgatione manet ; 
 A Lare in ^gyptum is cum nato ad aurem 
 In Calvario gemis apud natum et amare. 
 O mea cura ! gladius penetravit animam 
 In petra, Magdalena, semivivam curato. 
 Ulnis cape Natum, o jam diu aegra Mater 
 De tuo Jesu plangant cum Maria Marias, 
 Eia cum Alumnis grata adero Pneumati 
 Super Caelum animata adit Virgo mane. 
 Empireum canit seu adorat Agni Aulam 
 Die vivat semper Virgo alma nata. Amen. 
 
 Plura nova diceretn ; at jam sat egi manu 
 
 Ita i 
 Laus Deo cum Agni pura Matre. Amen. 
 
I40 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 III. PURE ANAGRAMS IN PROSE AND VERSE ON THE 
 FIRST SIX WORDS OF THE ANGELICAL SALUTATION 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 The earliest anagram that I have been able to discover on these 
 words, so famous in the history of the anagrammatic art, is a solitary one 
 in an Italian book dated 1620, and therefore more than forty years 
 earlier than that very notable fly-sheet of 100 anagrams composed by 
 the blind dependant of Cardinal Julius Rospigliosus in 1661. 
 
 It was undoubtedly the bhnd and poor devotee, Joannes Baptista 
 Agnensis, who first showed to the theologians of the Church of Rome 
 the effective use that could be made of anagrams for the purpose of 
 exalting the purity and special privileges of the Virgin Mary. He soon 
 found many devout Catholics, and many divines much more learned and 
 of higher position in the Church than himself, who were eager to carry 
 forward and extend his laborious literary device. Among these the 
 Franciscans were especially active, for that popular order held very high 
 views on the subject of the Virgin's absolute purity, and were anxious 
 that the views held by Duns Scotus, the great luminary of their order, 
 should be stamped with the official approbation of the Pope, as Head of 
 the Church, rather than the slightly different view of St. Thomas 
 Aquinas, to whom all the Dominicans submitted themselves as the 
 greatest theological champion of their own order. 
 
 I will therefore simply say that the first anagram on these famous 
 words remained for forty years like a solitary boulder on a wide plain, 
 and no one thought of either moving it or utilising it. Moreover, it 
 was by no means a striking object, nor yet one of special beauty, such 
 as appeared in great numbers later on. Neither was the controversy 
 about the Virgin's Immaculate Conception so burning a question in 
 1620, when Angelus de Omineis, an Augustinian prior of a convent 
 at Firmo, wrote a new treatise on anagrams, containing 152 specimens 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 141 
 
 of his own invention, but only two Biblical ones, neither of them 
 below the average, and the first above it. 
 
 ( I ) Salvator Jesus Christus = Sator : Tu es hie Vir lassus ; 
 
 and (2) The exemplar primum of our present theme : 
 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 Salve, Mater pia, gnara, num mi Vita ? Doce. 
 
 The book will be found in the Bibliography duly collated, as has 
 been done with all the rarities as far as possible, and placed under its 
 date of 1620 in chronological order of publication. All the various 
 books, from which I shall now proceed to give selections of anagrams 
 on the first words of Gabriel, will also be found duly described in the 
 Bibliography, each under its date, except J. B. Agnensis, 1661, who, on 
 account of his greater importance, both bibliographically and anagram- 
 matically, is placed first of all. 
 
 We begin, therefore, by presenting the first ten anagrams from the 
 broadsheet which contained the blind man's first hundred in 1661, then 
 a few from the 1015 which he afterwards printed at various times during 
 the next four years. Then will come, following close at his heels, 
 Turrius a Luca in 1663, and Pompeius Salvi in 1665. These two, 
 having the use of their eyes, were able to do very elaborate work, and 
 to produce some very excellent and difficult specimens in verse, which 
 the blind " Father of Anagrams " never reached unto — but still neither 
 Turrius nor Salvi can rob Cardinal Rospigliosi's faithful servant of the 
 credit of starting a very curious line of theology, which certainly had an 
 appreciable effect on one very disputable dogma of the Church of Rome. 
 
 Of Turrius and his book, I am glad to say, I have given my 
 readers a pretty full account, under his book in the Bibliography, and 
 also of Salvi and the succeeding anagrammatists as far as could be 
 found out. 
 
 .Without further prelude I introduce Agnensis, Turrius, and Salvi, 
 a trio very hard to beat on their own special ground. 
 
142 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1661. J. B. Agnensis. 
 
 Pura unica ego sum, Mater alma Dei Nati. 
 Deipara inventa sum ergo Immaculata. 
 Pia, Munda, Justa, Alma Creatorem genui. 
 Ego aurum nitens, Immaculata Deipara. 
 Ego mitis, Pura, Immaculata, Veneranda. 
 Margarita Cceli sum ; nivea apte munda. 
 Sat pura e malo Adami, Increatum genui. 
 Una semper Immaculata Virgo Dei Nata. 
 Deipara auguste Immaculata nominer. 
 Area pura Nati Dei, eum tegam almo sinu. 
 
 The above are the first ten of the first hundred of this very 
 productive crop. I am thus able to offer to my readers a tithe of the 
 first-fruits ; but, after this propitiation, I am afraid the demands of space 
 will oblige me to oflFer a much less proportion in many cases, but I will 
 always give the best quality I can. 
 
 Next follows a round dozen from the residue of the assets of this 
 first pioneer, which residue, as previously stated, was 1015. 
 
 Cano Reginam jure tutam e lapsu Adami. 
 Reginam videtis a nota maculae puram. 
 lo, Regina, pura munda et immaculata es. 
 Adeamus inviolatam ac pure integram. 
 Omnis lingua eam puram a reatu edicat. 
 Adinventa semper Immaculata Virgo. 
 En pura a malo, mira genuit Sanctum Dei. 
 Agna Diva in utero Immaculata semper. 
 Magna Deipara, unice tuta e morsu mali. 
 Te puram sine macula genitam adoravi. 
 Roma ! En Diva Parens Immaculata viget. 
 Agnita pura maculas a Montium Sidere. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 143 
 
 The last two anagrams are of the nature of an appeal and en- 
 couragement to Rome and the Pope, for the allusion is to a Decre- 
 tum of Alexander VII., which was considered very favourable to the 
 views of the Franciscans and others who wished the dogma of the 
 Immaculate Conception of the Virgin to be definitely pronounced de Fide 
 as long ago as the middle of the seventeenth century. The family arms 
 (heraldic) of Alexander VII. were mountains and a single star above 
 {Montes et Sidus), hence the ingenious phrase a Montium Sidere. 
 
 Next enters Turrius, with his wonderful Hexameters and Penta- 
 meters ! 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1664. J. Franciscus Turrius a Luca. 
 
 (Selections.) 
 
 Idyllium Anagrammaticum Heroicum. 
 
 [All Hexameters.] 
 
 Dedicatio. 
 
 Canto mire Puram a vae lugentis Adami. 
 Aula Dei Summi, Pura Agni, te cano, Mater. 
 Da lumen menti, pia Musa, et cara Virago. 
 
 I gaude, tarn Mater in omnia secula Pura. 
 En pia magna micas : lo, laudetur, ametur. 
 Aio Pura malam nescit, gaudete, ruinam 
 Ac ita manatam laudemus origine pure. 
 O Regina ! Dei Templum manat, sacra, viva. 
 Lauda. Virus earn Pomi, nee tangit amare. 
 O Mulier sane pure data magna micavit ! 
 Alma Dei sum Mater in Eva cognita Pura, 
 
144 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 Et non sum maculata Dei jam Regia Pura. 
 O Diam ! clamant Juvenes, tam Regia Pura, 
 Vi clamate Patres ; amen, i, munda Virago. 
 Adam Pura viget mire, macula sine nota. 
 Enitet Aurora summe pia lucida magna, 
 Emicat en almi Gnati Domus Aurea Pura, 
 En ea sacra Dei Virgo multum pia manat. 
 Amen a macula rapuit merito Deus Agni. 
 Ignoravit Adse culpam nam Mater Jesu.* 
 Nae Puram genitam laudet Maracius, lo, 
 Eia Maraci dent gesta volumina Puram. 
 Calvia divinant, o Puram gemmea serta 
 Agnensi calamo vidi, ut Mater mea Pura. 
 An culpam Matri damus ? eia Jure negato. 
 Amen pura malo digne servata micavit. 
 
 Elegia Anagrammatica. 
 
 1664. TURRIUS. 
 [Hexameters and Pentameters.] 
 Dedicatio. 
 
 Immunem plaga canto eia Turrius Adae, 
 
 Immaculata viret Magna Parens : video 
 
 Erige me, Puram cano, sta, da lumina Vati, 
 Et jam Virgo palam, tu veneranda micas. 
 
 O Regina Deum nae tu paris Immaculata ! 
 
 Dempta una e macula mira Virago nites. 
 Dita, mire pura, velut si Magna Camoena, 
 
 Et lumen da animas, Virgo sacrata, pium. 
 Tu Regina manes : impura malo cadit Eva. 
 
 O genitura Deum ! Nae Immaculata paris. 
 
 * J. B. Agnensis has the prior claim to this fine anagram. Possibly Turrius 
 made it independently. In any case it is worthy of remark how few duplicates occur 
 in the many writers who have composed anagrams on the Angelical Salutation. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 145 
 
 Tu Caeli Porta, Una Dei, nam Regia summa ; 
 
 Regia Pura est : jam non videat maculam. 
 Amota vere macula nitide pans Agnum, 
 
 Ad vitam alma venis, cognita Pura mere. 
 Igneam, ct en Puram laudat Maracius, lo. 
 
 Et vidi : Pura es Calvl Anagramma monet 
 Servatam macula digne novi, pia Mater. 
 
 Ignea, munda viris pure et amata colam. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 AnAG RAM MATA. 
 
 1665. PoMPEIUS SaLVI 
 
 (Selections). 
 
 [A Rhythmical Quatrain ! *] 
 
 Mater pia, lucis via, una Mortem denega. 
 Eia, duram pone curam ante, simul agita. 
 I-amata, nee plagata morsu, Divi munere, 
 Dei Nata ei grata, pura ac summo lumine. 
 
 [In praise of the advocacy of Duns Scotus.] 
 
 Visne anagrammata .'' De puro multa jeci 
 Evas angori Duns Immaculatam rapiet. 
 E Dunsii calamo Magna pura erit a metu. 
 I Duns e Regina maculam iras amputate. 
 Veni Scote et muni Mariam a dura plaga. 
 Ita Duns integre a Maria culpam amove. 
 I pugna in adversatorem Immaculatae, 
 A lege communi, atra via. Duns eam rapit. 
 Eia, Duns ait, nemo gravet culpa Mariam. 
 
 * This Quatrain deserves a second reading, both to catch its assonance and 
 structure, and to be able to grasp the immense difficulties overcome in producing it. 
 
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146 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 [The Virgin conquers the Powers of Hell.j 
 
 Ego mundula Satanica vertam imperia. 
 In re ut acies ordinata a me Lupum agam. 
 Arnica viva, grata dentes rumpam Leoni. 
 Nata pia ausu vigilem teram Draconem. 
 Conata Anguem elidam paritura Jesum. 
 Tu rugi, Pluto : sana Dei arnica remaneam. 
 Audite : acerrima vilem pungo Satanam. 
 Pura Mater invado vi Satanicam legem. 
 Serpentem diruo, ac magna mala vitavi. 
 En data arnica vilem Anguem prostravi. 
 O pia Immaculata Averni Regem tundas. 
 Voraretne Lupus Agnam ita Dei amicam ? 
 
 [The Virgin's Peculiar Privilege.] 
 
 Eia age plasmatorum unica munda erit. 
 Audin' tu Maria .'' rapta es a communi lege. 
 Unica Jesu Mater tam digne pura a malo. 
 A natis Adam unam actu puriorem elegi. 
 Non eget jam lavari, dum pura est Arnica. 
 Ait Alma : sum pura ; non egui arte medica. 
 Eia : dico maturum granum ; at sine palea. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 
 Salvi. 
 [The Heavenly Planets take up the Wondrous Tale. J 
 
 Evam divam magis, puto Cseli enarrant, 
 Maria pede cornutam agit Lunam, vas ei. 
 Via et magna poli Dea * Mercurium sanat. 
 Age clama, at pius, Veneri dominaturam. 
 Vive Sol, ac paratam Agni Matrem indue, 
 Tu Mars a divina voce tempera maligna. 
 En Magnum Jovem clara vi Dia praestat. 
 Saturni tempora legam ? ea Diva vincam. 
 * Diva temperat. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 147 
 
 [The Constellations also.] 
 
 Earn Evam admirantur, puto Caeli signa. 
 Vigen' Aries ? Cornua apud Almam amitte. 
 'Ayi'a in carne pie elatum domas Taurum. 
 A Geminis Amato tua duplicare munera. 
 Eia dea * sua premat lingua Cancri motum. 
 Si rugiet ad Canem Leo, vanam puta iram. 
 Mi Deus : una Virgo alteram amat in pace. 
 A me multa Scorpii venena, ut dira agam. 
 Deponam nae lasvam Sagittarii arcum. 
 E te omnia Capri mala, uti dura negamus. 
 Ea re Piscium avertat maligna a Mundo. 
 In Astrigerum Cslum paten' Adamo via ? 
 Pura mage Crystalino Eva diva manet. 
 Ea una clare gaudet Primi Motus anima. 
 Empireum canit, seu adorat Agni Aulam. 
 Die : Vivat semper Virgo alma nata. Amen. 
 
 And then Salvi ends with this valedictory anagram to his book — 
 
 Ita i. 
 Laus Deo cum Agni pura Matre. 
 Amen. 
 Next follows : 
 
 1 67 1. Leonardus Nutius. 
 
 This angelical anagrammatist, who hails from Naples, was a much 
 lesser luminary than the three already noticed. Nutius composed just- 
 thirty-nine on the great theme. Why only thirty-nine.'' Possibly he 
 thought "forty stripes save one" a sufficient penance to go through. 
 I certainly will not believe that he did it in honour of the Thirty-nine 
 Articles of the Church of England. In this case I cannot offer an exact 
 tithe of selections, so I will be liberal, and quote*four : 
 
 Salve : Te puram in anagrammate judico. 
 Eia Domina, en calamus Te puram arguit. 
 Age, o Tu Area a mala putredine immunis. 
 Diva et Immaculata : parias ergo Numen. 
 * Diva. 
 
HS BIBLIA anagram MATIC a 
 
 These are very good, and the rest are quite up to the general 
 average. Unfortunately, I have to accuse this ingenious gentleman of 
 petty larceny, done unconsciously I hope and believe ; but the fact re- 
 mains that the best anagram of the whole budget of thirty-nine is cribbed 
 from the poor blind Agnensis, viz. : 
 
 Adae culpam ignoravit, nam mater Jesu. 
 
 I am pleased, however, to add that this is the only case of 
 plagiarism which I have noticed in the many thousands of anagrams 
 which have been put forth. How people managed to avoid making an 
 anagram that had been already printed by some one else is a puzzle to 
 me, for they could not possibly in later days know all the anagrams 
 already before the public. This loophole is, however, hardly available 
 for Nutius, for at least as an Italian anagrammatist he ought to have 
 read the famous first-fruits of the art, published during the previous 
 decade, and thenj when he saw his best anagram there, he ought to have 
 crossed it out here. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1672-1680. Laurentius Baptista, S.J. 
 
 1. Unam Te Clemens puram aiat, Dia Virago. 
 
 Decas e sacr. Hymnis, 1672. 
 
 2. Alme Te Puram, Diva, aio carmine Gnatus. 
 
 Decas Mariana, 1673. 
 
 3. O Eva indemnis, grate pura, immaculata. 
 
 4. In te nee macula est Adam, mi pura Virago. 
 
 5. Prima auge ctno, Mater Divina, Salutem. 
 
 Decas Sereniana, 1680. 
 
 6. Tu digna amari a mente, ceu Polus a mari. 
 
 Decas e sacr. Hymnis, 1672. 
 
 7. Una veni Amiga, grata Rosa, Templvm Dei. 
 
 Decas Mariana, 1673. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 149 
 
 The last two are Iambics, the others Hexameters. Cam in 5 refers 
 to the author, then fifty-five years old. These seven are the only ones 
 made on the Ave by that most laborious of all anagrammatists, Laurentius 
 Baptista, S.J. (See Bibliography.) 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, plena gratia ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagram m ata. 
 
 Pierre de St. Louis, Carmelite, 1672. 
 
 Nigra sum. At Janua Cceli demum aperta. 
 Amica pia et Rosa grata, Lumenve Mundi. 
 Gemma Vitis in ea clara Domu pure nata. 
 Virgo clemens pia miranda, Eva mutata. 
 Regia summa Patrona, Clientem adjuva. 
 Virgo meum lumen, pia et sacrata Diana. 
 Ira placata rigidum mutas Evae nomen. 
 O Musa, jam ad te levia carmina pergunt. 
 Area mea totiusve Mundi ampla Regina. 
 Mater Carmeli. In eo, pia, munda, augusta. 
 Magna diu semper, Carmeli o Janua Tuta. 
 In Te valida via, magna sperat cor meum. 
 Amate prodigium naturas sine macula. 
 Semper inviolatam, argute canam. Audi . 
 Gemma tuis pie cara, in Domu Lauretana, 
 Jam tum via miranda per angelos vecta 
 Permagna Domus aurea in alta emicuit. 
 Vera, Alma Domus Agri Piceni tuta mane. 
 Amica ad te unam, jam Peregrinus volat. 
 Tu Dia, quam Pia, ore angeli arcanum sume. 
 Sanctuarium^alDei meijAngelo paratum. 
 Eia, Pia, Caram Mundo genitura salutem. 
 Ea pia, edita Regula omnium sanctarum. 
 Virgo casta Diana Emmaiiudem rapuit. 
 
150 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Alma Porta jam antea Decus Virgineum. 
 Summa Diva ac Virgo plane intemerata. 
 Tam magna Deipara, una te jure colimus. 
 Via mea, Paradisi gratum Lumen, te cano 
 Intus a gaudio camera impleatur. Amen. 
 Mater cujus amaritudo ei plane magna 
 Elucens Virgo, tu jam pia Mater amanda. 
 In Amanda vivam ego. Petrus Carmelita 
 Mea Virago Lauretana est prima mundi. 
 Mira simul et pia, erga Numen advocata. 
 O Luna magnum a Dei pietate sacrarium. 
 O Unica sanave Margarita, Dei templum. 
 Summa Regina Poli, tute ac jure amanda. 
 Tu Regia, non Eva prima, sed Immaculata. 
 Sum Luna Picena amata, Virgo Mater Dei 
 Tu mea ardua ara, olim in Picenum gesta. 
 O veri Dei Munus, Palma, caritate magna. 
 Alma vere Integra, Pudica. Nos jam muta. 
 Due Regina et viam tutam sine malo para. 
 Num pia amata, et sacra Virgo de Lumine .'' 
 Eva intacta Deum jam paris angelorum. 
 Ita amata parens miraculo Deum genui. 
 Ardua sancta pia meum Genitorem alui. 
 Tu pia amica Mundo. Salve Regina Mater, 
 O augusta mire pia. Nunc Dei Mater alma. 
 Ipsarter magna aut nimium decora. Vale. 
 Optima, cara Mater Numinis. Vale. Gaude. 
 
 This very eccentric Carmelite who framed the above fifty-one ana- 
 grams, and the first anagrammatic dialogue in Part I., some pages back, 
 has been presented entire, and not tithed. The reasons of this special 
 privilege are that he is rare to a degree, an " original " here and always, 
 and the specimens above have been picked out, for the first time, from 
 difFerent parts of his work, for which, and for more about him, see 
 the Bibliography. 
 
 We next come to three Poles in consecutive order, bearing names 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 151 
 
 very unfamiliar, I should say, even to that fortunate army tutor who 
 won the Grand Prix in The Times' Encyclopaedia Stakes. Whoever 
 heard of Klimecki, or of Wegrzinovius, who, I suppose, was called in 
 his family circle WegrzinoiFsky, or Wegrzinowsky, or We-grin-a-whisky, 
 or some such euphonius name ? How many people living have ever 
 seen or heard of the great folio of Nieszporkowitz, with its 3000 
 metrical anagrams on the well-worn programma of the Ave, Maria, and 
 yet all new ? 
 
 M. Estreicher, the famous Polish Bibliographer, only knew of one 
 copy, as he told me some time ago, and that copy was in a private 
 library at Cracow. I wrote a civil letter to the owner of the hbrary, 
 asking for details and mentioning the name of M. Estreicher. To my 
 surprise and joy, I received the book itself by return of post, for my 
 perusal, with some courteous remarks and a postscript saying that, if I 
 cared to send Creeny's Incised Slabs of the Continent (or some such title, 
 for I have forgotten it precisely for the moment) in that case I 
 might keep Nieszporkowitz altogether, and for his own part, he would 
 be pleased with the exchange. 
 
 I did not happen to know either Creeny or his Incised Slabs, but 
 I very soon found them both out ; for a joy in front urges us on nearly 
 as speedily as a fear behind, and if ever I went alatis pedibus to the 
 Paradise of Bloomsbury, to consult the Great Catalogue there for 
 Creeny, I went so that day. I found out that Mr. Creeny was alive, 
 and in Crockford, and living at Norwich. I very soon had the book, 
 and packed it off to Cracow with the least possible delay ; and we both 
 thought (for he wrote back in ecstasies about Creeny) that we had done 
 a capital thing for ourselves. That is how I got my unicum, and that 
 is how I wish all exchanges could turn out. 
 
 But the three Poles are waiting. I therefore shall introduce them 
 and their anagrams in chronological order. 
 
 1688. Reverendus Frater Christophorus Klimeccius, Ord. Mi- 
 norum Reform. Provin. Minoris Polon. S. Th. Lector. He has with 
 him two bundles {fasces) containing thirty-four anagrams each, and all 
 put together two and two, like unto kippers, or the way some of the 
 animals went into the ark. There is this difference, that the contents of 
 the Frater's bundles are tied two and two by their heads, which, stranger 
 
152 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 still, seem to consist of technical terms of Scholastic logic generally quite 
 opposed to each other. These contradictory heads seem to carry us 
 back to the Middle Ages, and to the famous sic et non of Peter Abelard. 
 He brings sixty-four anagrams all neatly tied up, but these are far 
 from being a tithe of his produce, for the books by him in my 
 possession hold 2830 specimens. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagram MATA. 
 
 Fascis I. 
 
 1688. Klimeccius 
 {Me s sis Liliorum). 
 
 Nego maculam in vita, semper Diva rata ; 
 Cedo ausu Marte, Mater lumini pia Agna. 
 Distinguo acumine mala a pura Matre. 
 Transeat malum a pia, a Virgine eum Deo. 
 
 Prius a me data in novam gratias lucem 
 Post jam vive, Agna Mater clare munda. 
 Prius ordine Tu electa, i ama, ama Agnam ; 
 Bignitate prima, caelo summa, una vera. 
 Re o tam pura Immaculata sanguine Dei. 
 Ratione peculiari summa, magna ut Dea. 
 
 Natura sat pura lucida me Agno, me, me, i, i. 
 Tempore luci das naturam, mi Agna viae. 
 Genere Divino clamita, amata, pura sum. 
 Specie tua, amor i, almum regna, diu nata. 
 Directe nego malum pura amata invisa. 
 Indirecte signo Eva parva malum amat. 
 
 Reduplicative mire, summa Agna a Nato. 
 Terminative magna celso, i pura vadam. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 153 
 
 Positive re unda, re magna Immaculata. 
 Negative maculata, rues in primo Adam. 
 
 Communiter ita Evae pars, in gula Adam. 
 Singulariter pia canet, amove Adamum. 
 
 Speculative Agnum Adami, e natu miror. 
 Evidenter ]a.m clamat Agna, lo pura sum. 
 
 Materialiter pasco mundum Agna vias. 
 Realiter Eva pacis Agni amo mundatum. 
 
 Modaliter nata anguem superavi mica. 
 Virtualiter summa a pane, dica me Agno. 
 
 Radicaliter Magna, una pie summa ovat. 
 Eminenter Casta, Pura ovi, liga Adamum. 
 
 Univoce Dei Alma gemma, sana parturit. 
 Analogice summa et pura Adae, i Trinum. 
 
 Identice Tu Amor, summi Agna, Lea pura. 
 Numerice agnita summa Deo, i lata pura. 
 
 Fascis II. 
 
 Generice pura amata ludo intima Musa. 
 Logice Tu, idem innate summa pura aura. 
 
 Distincte Maria gemma alvo pure nava. 
 Indistincte lego uvam amaram, ea pura. 
 
 Ut sic nata Agna mire pura, ea odi malum. 
 Ut tale odi, amarum enim Agni pura esca. 
 
 Mediate Agno, re pura, sinu Immaculata. 
 Immediate Agna nos rite pura a macula. 
 
 Complete Divina sum Regina, una amata. 
 Incomplete Viri-Adas sum Agna natura. 
 
 Causaliter Agna panem mirum vias dat. 
 Intrinsece da almum. Aptum, i Eva togata. 
 
 In actu primo Maria veste valde magna. 
 In actu altero magna summe i vade pari. 
 
154 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 In Agno stgnato per Adamum vere Alma. 
 In elicito Agna, purave. Mater sum Adam. 
 
 Relative Dea Agni, matura, pia, communis. 
 Simpliciter munda, viae Agno re amara. 
 
 Copulative Dea Trina, mite summa Agna. 
 Disjunctive pomum ama, re Agna, re alta. 
 
 Actu alteri pura, Deo enim jam sum Agna. 
 Potentia Dei uniam carum, arguens mala. 
 
 Primario en Tua Agna, mi Deus actu alme. 
 Secundaria agnita, Evam primam levat. 
 
 Naturaliter agam, summa pace Dei unio. 
 Violenter sum Magni Dei, pura ac amata. 
 
 In se Area vias almi, porta Agnum Deum. 
 In alio Tu pacta summa, re vera, me digna. 
 
 In communi partu a Te Adam Eva Regalis. 
 In particulari magna sum Eva, meta Deo. 
 
 Unitim Agno et Adas, jam clare pura sum. 
 Divisum Tu pura Agna, contere mea mala. 
 
 Ama Jesum Virgo dilecta, nam ante pura. 
 Partu Scoti nivea, ama rem dignam vale. 
 
 Next in order I introduce : 1701. Prater Ambrosius Nieszporko- 
 witz, whose titles and works are given fully in the Bibliography. He 
 holds the record for the number of hexameters and pentameters he has 
 produced from the thirty-one letters of the Programma Angelicum. His 
 folio contains 1500 of each, 3000 in all; and no other master of the 
 art has got anywhere near him, the second place being held by Turrius, 
 with 429 to his credit. This is an immense gap between the first and 
 second winners. It is " Eclipse first, and the rest nowhere." 
 
 It is true that Lucas de Vriese about this date produced 3100 in 
 his Metamorphosis Angelica, and Klimeccius in different works 2830; 
 but these anagrams were all in plain prose, which is much easier. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 155 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1 701. Ambr. Nieszporkowitt 
 (Selections). 
 
 Tu Magna Dei Mater Prima Unica, salve ! 
 
 Romae, audis, Puram Te mea lingua canit. 
 Tu Regina Sion mea, tarn mea lucida pura. 
 
 Vince mea ut Virgo, mala Parentis Adam. 
 
 1 mea Tu Virgo, sine culpa. Mater amanda. 
 
 Mater Amica Dei, en tam gravis una lupo. 
 Gemma Dei, Tu laus o Tu Pincerna Maria. 
 
 Vera Maria lupo Tu Agna timenda mices. 
 Virgo Nata Deum paries en Immaculata. 
 
 Lumine Magna Dei Tu Aurea Porta micas. 
 En capis aio Deum Tu Lumen grata Maria. 
 
 Nam Tu mira Deum en lasta Virago capis. 
 I pia Tu manas, mea Mater, Dulcor in auge. 
 
 Eva mea, ut Domini Gratia Pulcra manes. 
 Tu mea, Tu mi Diva manes a Pignore clara. 
 
 Et Virgo maculas pura et Amanda nimis. 
 Audis : Agna mica mea Tu, ter Pura, Monile. 
 
 Immaculata vide o Integra pura manes. 
 In Te (tam pura es) video Miracula magna. 
 
 Eva manes nimium Pulcra ita grata Deo. 
 Gemma venis, o Nata Dei, Tu Pulcra Maria. 
 
 Vita veni, o Lucem da Patris Agna meram. 
 Lumen Ave, Patri Decus, o mi, Gnata Maria. 
 
 Eja ter o magna, et vincula rumpis Adam. 
 In Te Salvator Mundi, Pia, Carave Gemma. 
 
 Viva manes ; lacta, o Integra Prima, Deum. 
 
156 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 O ample mea grata, vide, Tu Nmninis Area. 
 
 O munda Ana., in Te salva, age, mi Pretium. 
 Area malum vita, Dragonem sterne pia vi. 
 
 Alma Draconem Tu (vivis) ita, Agna preme. 
 Vinea pura metus, Dilecto, magna Maria. 
 
 Summa Maria age, ter condita vina plue. 
 
 I now introduce the third Pole : 17 10. Frater Antonius 
 Wegrzinovius, Ord. FF. Min. Reformatt. Sanctas Theologiae Lector. 
 His Alphabetum ImmaculatcB Conceptionis is wonderful for many things 
 besides its anagrams. He takes every letter of the alphabet and gives 
 four anagrams to it. I can only find space for A, B, C and T, V, X, Z ; 
 but this is a better allowance than most get. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata quibus Nomina B. V. M. elucidantur alphabetice 
 A F. Ant. Wegrzinovio, 1710. 
 
 A. Arbor sine verme. 
 
 O vere imputride Lignum, ac sana amata. 
 Lignum sine verme ; at cui parata .'' Adamo. 
 Lignum sine verme, cito adamata parva. 
 Notes Adam : Lignum vitas pulcra Maria. 
 
 B. Balsamum sine mixtura. 
 
 Dimana mage nivea, mistura procul a Te. 
 Unguentaria res, apta mi Adamum Coeli. 
 Eia Maria ad prima Unguenta, Sol tecum. 
 E prima olea, Maria cum unguentis data. 
 
 C. Columba sine felle. 
 
 Ales amaritudinem ignara, pacem ovet, 
 Avicula generosa, etiam ramum pandit. 
 Maria avis data egeno, purum mel can it. 
 Avis pennata Immaculata, re giro Deum, 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 157 
 
 T. Thronus sine horrore. 
 
 Pange Thronus Dei Maria, ea Immaculata. 
 Thronus Agni Dei Maria, en caelum aptum. 
 In Sedem puram Agno lecta Maria, vivat. 
 Ama pacem : Maria velut Thronus Agni Dei* 
 
 V. Vinea sine labrusca. 
 
 magna alma Vinea Dei, septa cum turri. 
 Vinea Dei Patris, magna amorum luceat. 
 Uva alme graviter, ac optime dimanans. 
 Aurea vitis prodit ; mane maculam nega. 
 
 X. Xenium sine defectu. 
 
 Divina Gemma ter pura, sejuncta a malo. 
 Cum pignore sum Isete nata, Diva Maria. 
 Tu actu pura, magna Maria, Monile Dei es. 
 Amet Mariam ; una aurea pignus Dilecto. 
 
 Z. Zabulon sine tribute. 
 
 Maria a mane in partu vectigal Deo sum. 
 En Adam agricola it, seminat purum vae : 
 En Maria pura docta, a lege tua immunis. 
 
 1 Adam ne oneres Mariam gutta, culpa, vi. 
 
 I next come to a Belgian named Lucas de Vriese, who held the 
 good position of Abbas Ccenobii Dunensis. I saw his unpublished 
 manuscripts at Bruges. He and his books and manuscripts are noticed 
 in the Bibliography. He arranged all his anagrams in the shape of 
 an acrostic on the programma, as in the one here given, each acrostic 
 taking up one page of his little book, and containing thirty-one anagrams 
 or lines. The book had one hundred pages, and therefore held 3100 
 anagrams. My selection is page 81, and is called the "Echo page," as 
 the first word of a line is the echo of the last word of the line preceding. 
 The remaining pages, 82-100, contain 589 anagrams, all ending with 
 Immaculata, except thirty-eight, where the acrostic demands C or L, 
 which consequently excludes Immaculata. 
 
 * Thronus with its h makes three of these imperfect. 
 
158 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 
 PrOGRA M MA. 
 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. Echo. 
 
 171 1. L. DE Vriese. 
 
 A macula ter munda, ita per omnia viges. 
 V iges, enormi mulcta Adami pura enata. 
 E nata Malis pura vige, ac merito Munda. 
 
 M unda Mater emicas, o pura Geniti Aula. 
 A ula Dei micat, nota summe pura, Regina. 
 R egina, o Tu pura macula, et Dia Immensa. 
 I mmensa, o Tu diva integre pura ac alma. 
 A Ima ter unice pura Summa io Dei Gnata. 
 
 G nata Dei, pura es communi a Mali reatu. 
 
 R eatu magno pura, micat sine lue Adami. 
 
 A dami sine omni macula pura, rege tuta. 
 
 T uta o pergas alma ac nimie munda jure. 
 
 I ure mero Genita munda a culpis, Amata. 
 
 A mata veni Summa Regina, delicto pura. 
 
 P ura et ter divina o gemmas, Amica luna. 
 
 L una pura (mira dico) Agni Stemmate Eva. 
 
 E va, i matris culpa e gremio munda nata. 
 
 N ata maledicti pura, o vere Summi Agna. 
 
 A gna Coeli summa, et Avi ter pura damni. 
 
 D amni tu pura Regia es, et a macula omni. 
 
 O mni reatu, ac Avi plagis e matre munda. 
 
 M unda tu pia merito maculae es ignara. 
 
 I gnara culpse mera, o Summi Tu Dei Nata 
 
 N ata Pura Medica, et gloria Summa veni. 
 
 V eni multa munda, Pia et a gremio Sacra. 
 
 S acra nimie munda, alme pura vige tota. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 159 
 
 T Ota piaculls munda mera, germina Eva. 
 E va o simul prima et munda genita, Cara. 
 C ara, imo Summi Nata, et digne pura, vale. 
 V ale, o mendi pura Mater, ac Vitis Magna. 
 M agna, o sic pura ad literam, vive. Amen. 
 
 171 1. Lucas de Vriese, 
 . in his Metamorf hosts Mariana. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 
 Program ma. 
 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1726. Anon. 
 
 O Eva Paradisiaca, tarn integrum Lumen. 
 Imago mea Spiritu mundata lue carnea. 
 Privilegium Esther, Aman ac vana domat. 
 Renuit Agna casta edulium amari Pomi 
 Exi Margarita penitus munda maculae. 
 Arcam Agni mansueti alte puram video. 
 Ccelum Divse Puritatis : en Anagramma ! 
 Virgo sanie munda, aperte Immaculata. 
 E Pace amata, Vas originaliter mundum. 
 Redemta magno levamini, a turpi vacas. 
 Mea Mali Agna : Deus tantum ea pulcrior. 
 Ovis lactea, munda, ea mire Agnum parit. 
 
 From Lusus in re seria (Anon.), 
 Aug. Vind., 1726, 4to. 
 
 Next comes Flaminius Dondi, or, as he anagrammatically called 
 himself, Donino Fidalmi. His Conceptionale Biblicum Anagrammaticum 
 is one of the greatest contributors to the various Biblical texts throughout 
 this volume. He did not devote himself especially to the Angelical 
 Salutation, as so many others have done. He also came late on the 
 harvest field, and the best ears had been gleaned. However, he is 
 responsible for nineteen; and to do him honour I produce them all. 
 
i6o BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1727. F. DONDI. 
 
 Cum literarum adagio Eva ante spinam. 
 Virgo manent Te servam piacula Adami ? 
 Adame, non metuam retia Virgula pads. 
 Magistra junior Eva mane Deum placat. 
 Es Via Dei, Margarita, Manna et Poculum. 
 Sine ruga e manu Dei Porta Immaculata. 
 Secunda Eva Originalem amputat iram. 
 Nego spinarum jacula ad Matrem vitae. 
 Non legis a cauta Dei via Puram Matrem ? 
 A prisca agonia Unam, ut Matrem delevi. 
 Ad tam Puram vacantem Jesu Originale .'' 
 Area tam magna in pretio, Dei vasculum. 
 Edes tu Angelica Rota vim in Puram ? Ama. 
 Eram Pura, ut dat me omnis Angelica via, 
 Eja Communitas Angeli Puram deaurat. 
 Eva peregrina an cum altis odium amat ? 
 O Justa Diva ante peregrinam maculam ! 
 Interest macula in Adamo ? Viva pergam. 
 Eva Deipara mutas cantum originalem. 
 
 Next comes a Jesuit, one of an order that appears very seldom 
 compared with the Franciscans, Capucins, and Minorites, who have so 
 richly contributed to this Biblia Anagrammatka. 
 
 It is also the only anagrammatic book that I know of hailing from 
 Mexico. The author, J. A. de Mora, was evidently a student of the 
 literature of the subject as well as a producer himself, as appears in the 
 Bibliography. He made 946 pure anagrams, all on this present theme. 
 I select a few praising the Fratres Minores, the Jesuits, and ^gnensis, 
 the first inventor of these angelical anagrams. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATIGUM i6i 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1731. J. Ant. de Mora, S.J. 
 In laudem Fratrum Minorum. 
 
 Tu Minores : ita gaude in me Pura ac alma. 
 
 Minores me gaudeant : I uti Pura ac alma. 
 
 I, age Minor : lauda unicam Puram. A te est. 
 
 In laudem Societatis Jesu. 
 Socii Nati, laudate Puram, vere Magnam. 
 En Jesuana Religio amat ductam Puram. 
 Jesuani auro pergent ad Immaculatam. 
 A prole minima et munda, ac grata vives. 
 Socia vi Nati laudat Magnam vere Puram. 
 O Ignatiani ! Clamate vere Puram. Adsum. 
 Ignea Proles muniat : amarum vae cadit. 
 Ignatius canit almam : a Deo vere Puram. 
 
 In laudem Joannis Baptists Agnensis, 
 horum Anagrammatum inventoris. 
 
 Joannes Te Puram ac Miram laudat. Vige. 
 A luce Agnensi, i, Amati Mater, dumo Pura. 
 Agnensi amato me, uti Puram, declaravi. 
 
 This Mexican Jesuit is distinguished from all other writers in this 
 collection by the fact that he adorned his anagrams by descriptive and 
 explanatory poetry in his native tongue. It is this that enlarges his 
 book to about 300 pages, and makes it much more interesting. To 
 each of his anagrams, to the number of 400, he appends an Explicacion 
 or descriptive epigram in Spanish verse of eight lines, and he deals in 
 the same way with a Rosary of anagrams which he extracts from 
 J. B. Agnensis. 
 
 II 
 
1 62 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Last of all, I introduce a modern Belgian parish-priest, whose 
 manuscripts fortunately came into my possession very recently. He was 
 a chronogrammatist first and foremost, and an anagrammatist after- 
 wards, but some of his attempts are very ingenious. His name was 
 Caris. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Eva mea ! impugna Draconis retia multa. 
 
 Virgo mea plane adamata virum nescit. 
 
 Virgo da Palmam ! Vince, vi tere Satanam. 
 
 Mater Agni, Te amo ; vi mali pura, secunda. 
 
 Virgo canit : Tu Emanuel amas Deiparam. 
 
 Mariae placeat ! Unigenitum adoramus. 
 
 Eja Maria ! tantum decus Angelorum ! 
 
 Ara Dei ! in versu te pango Immaculatam. 
 
 An Diva, clemens, pura Virgo amat me ? Ita. 
 
 Maria ait age ! Laudas Pium Nonum ? Certe. 
 
 Area repleta ! an Gaudium es omnium ? Ita. 
 
 Eva nos maculat, redimit e pugna Maria. 
 
 Sacra Gentium Aula, Deipara, munito me. 
 
 At ego in cantu Mariam semper laudavi. 
 
 O Maria ! veni ; Caris panget laudem tuam. 
 
 O tu angelica Mariae Puritas ! munda me. 
 
 Ego late adnunciavi Mariam puram : Est. 
 
 Saltate ; Ego puram denunciavi Mariam. 
 
 Audi me in Casula : memento Gratia, Pura ! 
 
 Memet mone in lacu. Audias, gratia Pura ! 
 
 Me temno in Caula : Audis me ? gratia Pura ! 
 
 Calvinismum antea perde, Virgo amata ! 
 
 Caris magno et pura in laude amavit me. 
 
 Caris ! tona metam dignam : Pura ! Ave. Vale. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 163 
 
 The devoted Caris also calls anagrammatically on many towns and 
 states, and even upon the continent of Australia, to advance the honour 
 and purity of the Mother of God. 
 
 Austria ! I pange Matrem Dei Lunam voca. 
 Antverpia ! Mariam digne voca Salutem. 
 O Tungri civitas ! Lampadem venera, ama. 
 Australia ! Matrem Dei muni, pange, voca. 
 Osterlandia ! Pange Vitam ceu Mariam. 
 NeapoHs ! Jura Regi, Earn a tactu mundam. 
 Leodium ! Earn a partu cantas Virgineam. 
 Gandavum ! I ! Cole Mariam, Estne pura .'' Ita. 
 Lovanium ! Permite cantas : Gaude Maria. 
 Ruraemunda! Gavisa Te Piam colit. Amen. 
 Aelst ! Canta : Divam nive puriorem agam. 
 
 L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 The above form only a small selection out of my MS. and its 
 anagrams on the Salutatio Angelica. There are more than 300, all pure 
 and applicable, jotted down in the pages apparently just as they were 
 composed by this devoted and laborious Belgian priest ; for the MS. is 
 full of erasures and interlineations, and it seems he did not take the 
 trouble to write out a clean copy. 
 
 He seems at one time to have intended composing a small treatise 
 on anagrams, for my MS. is entitled Liber Anagrammatum Carisii, and 
 begins with a prose introduction answering the initial question, " Quid 
 est anagramma ? " His remarks and method both follow closely, some- 
 times verbally, the introduction to Selhamer's Tuba Anagrammatica, 
 although Selhamer is not referred to at all. Caris clearly intended to 
 write more, and, in fact, ends very abruptly with the 303rd anagram on 
 the Ave, Maria, etc., and several pages are left blank. 
 
 One would have thought that in these modern times no one would 
 try to glean further 04 this field, when so many ears of corn had been 
 previously gathered ; but Caris was not the last, and an Hungarian priest 
 nearly twenty years later began gleaning again. He is in the first and 
 hardest section of this field. 
 
1 64 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATIC A 
 
 IV. ANAGRAMS IN ITALIAN 
 We now come to Section IV., the last division of this curious 
 subject, viz. the anagrams on the Salutatio Angelica (Luke i. 28) in 
 other languages than Latin. Only two writers to my knowledge have 
 attempted this. They were both masters of the art, and, being Italians, 
 they attempted the feat in their own vernacular. One produced 450 
 anagrams in Italian, and the other fourteen only. I give thirty-six 
 specimens from the one, and the whole fourteen from the other. 
 
 Luc. i. 28. 
 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammi Volgari. 
 
 Sto Eva ne giardin', ma Immaculat' e pura. 
 
 Ruino Adam, Tu celsamente pura gia mai. 
 
 E' nata Immaculata, angue impur' si rode. 
 
 Reina, ma pura, 1' odi tu ? Canta : ami me Gesu. 
 
 Vedi : ammanta me sovr' angelica purita. 
 
 Immondi stiam ; Cara, e purga, e lavane Tu. 
 
 Servata Immaculata Impegnera un Dio. 
 
 Divin' amore segna Te pura, Immaculata. 
 
 Erro un Adam : Tu piu eels' amante gia mai. 
 
 Immaculata .'' m' e una verita di gran peso. 
 
 E' Regina salvata da commune impurita. 
 
 Area, ma pura, segna, ammette diluvi. No. 
 
 S' Eva peri, non gia Tu Madre Immaculata. 
 
 Alma giust' e pura, mai, mai v' e caduta. 
 
 Da Vergine Immaculata sto prima, e una. 
 
 Singolarmente pura, mai, mai, v' h caduta. 
 
 Tu la mia cara Vigna, vite sempre monda. 
 
 Su da r cor a me, et amami Unigenita pura. 
 
 Va, ed in morte prega una si Immaculata. 
 
 Tu pura, ne mai legata da comun miseria. 
 
 Vai Immaculata, mai un dragon prese Te. 
 
 Vien cara d' angue impur mai molestata. 
 
 Nata un' Immaculata mi e guida ; sperero. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 165 
 
 L' angue trovatami pura, smania, mi cede. 
 Immaculata veniste purgar' Adam e noi. 
 Tu caderne ? Tu alma si pura ? nego, mai, mai. 
 L' Eva sen to mi cade : Tu gran pura, mai, mai. 
 Giunta Celeste Dama, ma pura mai ruino. 
 Adam cantami '1 viva : in me so purgare te. 
 Gustaran me Immaculata, e priva di neo. 
 In segno purita Eva Madre Immaculata. 
 Da me Una, jugulata, morta nimica serpe. 
 Mira me Gesu ma tinta da veruna colpa. 
 Curavi me raga, e monda al prim' instante. 
 Miratemi Sant' e pura, vacua d' ogni male. 
 Mistero ! ne vai pura, degna Immaculata. 
 
 I74I. BONAVENTURA DA S. RoSALIA. 
 
 Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum. 
 
 Anagrammi Volgari. 
 
 Da mihi virtutem, 
 
 Immacolata Insegna a me pure da virtu, 
 
 contra hostes tuos. 
 
 Come Virtu s' impegna a dir : Eva mai nata .'' 
 Sdegni venuta Primavera Immacolata ? 
 Misura Immacolata : N' avete piii grande ? 
 Una Madre Immacolata piii sta Vergine. 
 Si nega pura .'' Virtu emenda : Immacolata. 
 Genera da Immacolata ; E piii sii tra Numi. 
 Spargi un' aura mite d' Immacolata Neve. 
 Serva Immacolata, Vita Pregna di Nume. 
 Via Immacolata unta in Madre per Gesii. 
 Mia unica Pura or dammi sangue e latte. 
 Pura sta mai da Una vertigine .'' Come mai ? 
 
 Immacolata, Pura m' insegna due verita. 
 Starai immune da colpa grave, e minuta. 
 
 1727. Flaminio Dondi, 
 
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 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Having thus finished this remarkable section on the Angelical 
 Salutation in Luke, we go on in the canonical order of the Gospels. 
 
 EVANGELIUM JoANNIS. 
 
 Joan. i. i. 
 
 In principio erat Verbum, at 
 Verbum erat apud Deum, et 
 Deus erat Verbum. 
 
 Joan. i. 1-4. 
 
 In principio erat Verbum, et 
 
 Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus 
 
 erat Verbum. 
 
 Hoc erat in principio apud Deum. 
 
 Omnia per ipsum facta sunt ; et 
 
 sine ipso factum est nihil quod 
 
 factum est. 
 
 In ipso vita erat, et vita erat lux 
 
 hominum. 
 
 Joan. i. 14. 
 Verbum caro factum est. 
 
 Joan. i. 14. 
 
 Verbum caro factum 
 habitavit in nobis. 
 
 est, et 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Ave Rubus, arde ; areo, pudet 
 prope te, dum 
 (F.) 
 
 me ; verte me 
 inimici turbabuntur, 
 
 Credo in unum Deum Patrem 
 
 Omnipotentem. 
 
 Beatus Vir qui non abiit in 
 
 Consilio peccatorum. 
 
 Justus ex fide vivlt. 
 
 Ehem ! Deus perdet penitus 
 
 impium hunc perversum. 
 
 Vah ! propter malefacta sua Fur 
 
 patebit. Ad tartara abiit ! 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 1. O beatum creas fructum. 
 
 2. Ecce, ut fumat Urbs Roma. 
 
 Selhamer, Praf., p. 55. 
 
 Anagrammata pur. hex. 
 
 1. Non sibi fata, heu, cruciatum 
 morte subibat. 
 
 2. Cur ibi funestum ? O intacta 
 ubi Mater ab hoste. 
 
 1671. J. E. A Panormo. 
 
 3. Ubi fit, ecce ut obumbrata est 
 natura hominis. 
 
 i68o(.''). P. F. Caspar Laugier. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 167 
 
 Joan. i. 14. Anagramma pur. 
 
 Et Verbum caro factum est, et Ac, ea veste, mittfens Orbl Bonum, 
 habitavit in nobis. hie turbata fuit. 
 
 1672. Pierre de St. Louis. 
 
 Joan. ii. i— 11. 
 Programma. 
 
 1. Nuptias factae sunt in Cana Galilasae; et erat mater Jesu ibi. 
 
 2. Vocatus est autem et Jesus, et discipuli ejus ad nuptias. 
 
 3. Et deficiente vino, dicit mater Jesu ad cum : Vinum non habent. 
 
 4. Et dicit ei Jesus : Quid mihi et tibi est, mulier } nondum venit 
 hora mea. 
 
 5. Dicit mater ejus ministris : Quodcumque dixerit vobis, facite. 
 
 6. Erant autem ibi lapideas hydriae sex positse secundum purificationem 
 Judseorum, capientes singulas metretas binas vel ternas. 
 
 7. Dicit eis Jesus : Implete hydrias aqua. Et impleverunt eas usque 
 ad summum. 
 
 8. Et dicit eis Jesus : Haurite nunc, et ferte architriclino. Et tulerunt. 
 
 9. Ut autem gustavit architriclinus aquam vinum factam (et non sciebat 
 unde esset, ministri autem sciebant qui hauserant aquam), vocat 
 sponsum architriclinus, 
 
 10. Et dicit ei : Omnis homo primum bonum vinum ponit ; et cum 
 inebriati fuerint, tunc id quod deterius est; tu autem servasti 
 bonum vinum usque adhuc. 
 
 11. Hoc fecit initium signorum Jesus in Cana Galilsece; et manifestavit 
 gloriam suam, et crediderunt in eum discipuli ejus. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Vivite felices et beati Neo-Sponsi Auguste Romanorum et Hungariae 
 Rex, Archidux Austrias Josepke cum Serenissima Principe Amalia ; 
 Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac, et Deus Jacob sit vobiscum ; et ipse 
 adimpleat benedictionem in vobis, ut videatis filios filiorum vestrorum 
 usque ad tertiam, aut quartam generationem ; et qui hasc Providentiae 
 suae statuta finit, pio nunc favore comitetur Altissimus, et quos 
 charitate sua ligavit legitime, aeterna $ua pace dotet, et muniat ad 
 
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 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 suam gloriam, et Austrise incrementum, et desideratam Mundi 
 universi quietem, lucentis turcicae lunae deliquium, Hydras interitum ; 
 inclinetque ad invidentium, ubicunque hi sint, manifestam confusionem ; 
 ut nihil hie tentent minis, sed vincti sint in catenis perditi. Te Deum 
 deposcimus intuitu divinissimi Tui Jesv : annue nunc anhelis hisce, 
 quae attuli, suspiriis. Fac beatam Jesv Austriam, et in virtute tua 
 semper victricem serva. Sic fit ut tibi undique debitum tunc hymnum 
 cantet chorus : Benedicimus Te, et Te Deum Laudamus. 
 
 A^BCDEFG 
 
 H 
 
 59 II II 34 28 90 9 6 
 
 13 
 
 T 
 
 V 
 
 83 
 
 89 
 
 Probatio Literarum. 
 
 I L M N 
 
 13 113 17 45 54 
 
 Joan. ii. 3. 
 
 Dicit mater Jesu ad eum 
 non habent. 
 
 Vinum 
 
 Joan. iii. 16. 
 
 Sic Deus dilexit mundum, ut 
 Filium suum unigenitum daret. 
 
 Joan. iii. 29, 30. 
 
 Hoc ergo gaudium meum im- 
 
 pletum est. 
 
 Ilium oportet crescere, me autem 
 
 minui. 
 
 O P Q R S 
 
 24 13 10 2,^ 59 
 X Y. 
 
 2 2. 
 
 SuMMA Literarum, 808.* 
 1699. Jesuits of Vienna. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Mitte, chare nate, iis de unda 
 bonum vinum. 
 1665. 
 
 Pomp. Salvi. 
 
 Dei Filius ut Vinetum, Dux mitis, 
 Lumen gratum, Decus mundi. 
 Adalb. Tylkowsky, S.J. 
 
 Summum tege lutum, rumorem ; 
 te Pomum, 
 
 Ejeci Ego Mater pulchrae di- 
 lectionis. (F.) 
 
 * This long anagram holds the record as third in length after the anagrams on 
 Ps. li. and Ps. xci. already quoted. It is very appropriate to the occasion, and 
 breathes the courtly and political aroma of the Austrian Jesuits. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAM MATICUM 169 
 
 Joan. iii. 30. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Ilium oportet crescere, me autem 
 minui. 
 
 Ecce mirum Sol movet, et Luna 
 mire perit. 
 
 1689. G. vanden Eede, S.J. 
 
 Joan. iv. 7. 
 
 Venit mulier de Samaria haurire 
 aquam. 
 
 Ah, det ille aquam vivam, rem 
 viris enarra. Salvi. 
 
 Joan. v. 2. 
 Est Jerosolimis Probatica piscina. 
 
 Joan. vi. 42. 
 
 Nonne hie est Jesus, fiUus Joseph, 
 cujus nos (Judasi dicunt) novimus 
 patrem et matrem ? 
 
 Joan. x. 22. 
 
 Facta sunt Encaenia in Jerosolymis ; 
 et hyems erat. 
 
 Joan, xv, 
 
 Morbis siccis, et aliis nas proposita. 
 
 Salvi. 
 
 1. Nomen hoc ter summum Jesus, 
 Joseph Parens, flos Dei unice 
 natus, ita diu unice sitivit. 
 
 2. In Vere dies nonus Maii finit 
 hoc totum. S. Joseph, velis 
 suscipere munus, ante dicatum.* 
 
 Lacrymes Hyaena invecto Marias 
 Festo : Sit nitens. (F.) 
 
 5- 
 
 Programma. 
 Ego sum vitis vera, et vos palmites. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Varie salutis potus ego, me sumite. 
 Sum suavis, ite, gustate mel ore pio. 
 Ego via, Veritas, et si potes mulsum. 
 Gusto saporem, tu sitim Jesu eleva. 
 Imperat Jesus (o Leo augustus) time. 
 
 * This second anagram gives the day of the month when Klimeccius completed 
 his Decas Decadum. The words ante dicatum refer to the dedicatory anagram on 
 Gen. xxxix. 7 {qv.). This is the last anagram of the book which Klimeccius hereby 
 asks St. Joseph to accept. 
 
lyo BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Joan. xv. i, 5. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Ego sum vitis vera, et vos palmites. 
 
 6. Ego vite salutari sum meis potus. 
 
 7. Opus Jesu salve, morte vitam tegis. 
 
 8. Ego sum ei Veritas, ostium pulsate. 
 
 9. Emis Jesu salutem augusto pretio. 
 
 10. lo, gestias, te puerum saluto Jesum. 
 
 1 1 . Ave, ego sum Veritas, et sitim pulso. 
 
 12. Talis ore pio suavem gustas Jesum. 
 
 13. Os velim gustet Jesus amore pavit. 
 
 14. Pia ago. Sum et mitis et severus Leo. 
 
 15. Ego sum mitis Apis tua, et verus Leo. 
 
 16. Ego sum ei Pastor, et suavis uti mel. 
 
 17. Tuus ego sum Jesu, eripe tot a malis. 
 
 1 8. Tu, o Jesu, selige puros, tu ama mites. 
 
 19. O tu optima Jesu salus mea regis. 
 
 20. Ut tuus agam Jesu eripies me solo. 
 
 21. O Jesu, vere tu spes, mitiga tu malos. 
 
 22. O te salvi summus, rege tuos miti ope. 
 
 23. Ite opes, tu Jesu, tu summa gloria es. 
 
 24. Egemus, o Jesu, salutis emptor vita. 
 
 25. Moveare tutus moesti plagis Jesu. 
 
 26. O spes salutis, vi gemo, tuere vitam. 
 
 27. Tu, Jesu, solatium, et Virgo spes mea. 
 
 28. Ego jure sum vita, spes et solatium. 
 9. Ego salus vestrum, et pios emi vita. 
 
 30. Ego sum suavis pater, et mitis levo. 
 
 31. I tutus a lupis, mire tego oves meas. 
 
 32. Levato miseros, spem tui tuis auge. 
 
 33. Tuos vere augemus milites, at pios. 
 
 34. Musa vale, tu, o Jesu, mitis proteges. 
 
 T 
 
 Masenius. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 171 
 
 Joan, xviii. 13. Anagrammata. 
 
 Adduxerunt Jesum ad Annam Cur tu anima imprudens Deum 
 primum. damnas ? 
 
 Pomp. Salvi. 
 Joan, xviii. 38. / 
 
 Quid est Veritas .'' = Est Vir qui adest. 
 
 Anon. 
 
 Joan. xix. 26. 
 
 Dicit matri suae : Mulier, ecce 
 filius tuus. 
 
 Anagramma in Joannem. 
 
 Cecidit Lilium Marias .? Ejus 
 Fructus es Tu. (F.) 
 
 Joan. xix. 27. 
 
 Deinde dicit discipulo : Ecce Decidi etiam ; Proli cadenti suc- 
 mater tua. cede Tu. (F.) 
 
 Joan. xix. 28. 
 Ut consummaretur Scriptura, di- Tu rictus, vox Amantis triti dis- 
 
 xit : Sitio. 
 
 Joan. xix. 30. 
 Consummatum est. Et inclinato 
 capite, tradidit spiritum. 
 
 Act. i. 14. 
 Hi omnes erant perseverantes una- 
 nimiter in oratione cum mulieribus, an e turba rea introeunte eripies 
 
 rumpe Cor. (F.) 
 
 Ad Calicem contentus mitti, dum 
 sint statuta improperii. (F.) 
 
 Vis reversuram e turba fieri tristem, 
 
 et Maria, matre Jesu, et fratribus. 
 
 Act. ix. 5. 
 
 Ego sum Jesus, quern tu perse- 
 queris. 
 
 Act. xi. 9. 
 Quae Deus mundavit, tu ne com- 
 mune dixeris. 
 
 honeste nonnisi Immaculatam .'' (F.) 
 
 1 . Quis es ? Ego qui sum super 
 te reum. Es .? 
 
 2. Resume, Quis es.'' Ego qui 
 sum super te. 
 
 Vexi Donum Mariae : stude nunc, 
 quid metues ? (F.) 
 
172 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 Act. xii. 24. Anagramma. 
 
 Verbum autem Domini crescebat Jubebunt Poli et Terra cum Tubis : 
 et multiplicabatur. Crede Immaculatam. (F.) 
 
 Act. xiii. 16 et iii. 13-15. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Viri Israelitse, et qui timetis Deum, audite : Deus Abraham, et Deus 
 Isaac, et Deus Jacob, Deus patrum nostrorum, glorificavit Filium suum 
 Jesvm, quem vos quidem tradidistis, et negastis ante faciem Pilati, 
 judicante illo dimitti. Vos autem sanctum et justum negastis, et 
 petistis virum homicidam donari vobis ; auctorem vero vitae interfecistis, 
 quem Deus suscitavit a mortuis, cujus nos testes sumus. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Ecce Jesvm Omnipotentis Dei Patris Filium, Victorem gloriosissi- 
 mum! Ecce in Resurrectione sua [sancta] triumphavit quasi Samson 
 fortissimus: quasi David mitissimus devicto Goliath. O Jesv, Deus 
 meus, tu mea es Vita : tu es et ara casta : tu et sancta Sedes et 
 Adamas : et fidum Diadema virtutum : tu Leo de tribu Juda, tu 
 venisti, vidisti, tuque vicisti mortem, atque infernum. Tibi laus, tibi 
 decus et summa [sit] gloria. 
 
 Probatio Literarum 
 
 
 (omitting sancta and sit). 
 
 I X B. 
 
 a b c 
 
 d e f g h i 1 m n 
 
 p q r s t u 
 
 26 2 II 
 3 
 
 14 34 4 3 2 47 6 22 9 
 46 
 
 14 3 4 14 34 35 39 
 
 Summa, 323. 
 Adalb. Tylkowsky.* 
 Rom. ii. 11. Anagramma. 
 
 Non enim est acceptio personarum Non vis a me Matrem Superni 
 apud Deum. pudendo peccato. (F.) 
 
 * Some of Tylkowsky's anagrams seem carelessly printed, and probably lacked 
 the author's revision. I have re-edited them with such amendments as suggested 
 themselves. In the present case there is still a B too many and an I deficient, or 
 (I X B), as anagrammatists write it, 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 173 
 
 Rom. v. 5. 
 Caritas Dei diffusa est in cordibus 
 nostris. 
 
 Rom. X. 13. 
 Omnis enim, quicumque invoca- 
 verit nomen Domini, salvus erit. 
 
 I CoR. i. 10. 
 
 Anagram M ATA. 
 Fide instruis, dedicas, roborans 
 justificas. 
 1680. P. F. Caspar Laugier. 
 
 Qui mecum quovis non invo- 
 carit nomen Dei, minime salvus 
 erit. 
 
 Imo ! quicumque conveniet : in 
 
 nomine Jesu datur Salus minori. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, ,1854. 
 
 AnAGRAMMA IVI DoCTOREM 
 SuBTILEM. 
 
 Obsecro autem vos, fratres, per Dunsi, Mons Virtutis hinc inde 
 
 nomen Domini nostri Jesu Christi, 
 ut idipsum dicatis omnes, et non 
 sint in vobis schismata. 
 
 I Cor. xiii. 8. 
 Charitas nunquam excidit, sive 
 prophetias evacuabuntur.* 
 
 orbi sona : Estote fortes ; susti- 
 neatis nobiscum Dei Matrem hora 
 Conceptionis Purissimam. (F.) 
 
 Quum haec verba sunt data Co- 
 rinthiis, cui pax pura eveniet. 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1850. 
 
 I Cor. xiii. 8, 9. 
 Sive linguae cessabunt, sive scientia Tace ! Spe tuti unice exspectamus 
 destruetur ; ex parte enim cognosci- supersuavem gloriam aeterni regni ; 
 
 mus, et ex parte prophetamus. 
 
 I Cor. XV. 10. 
 Cratia autem Dei sum, id quod 
 sum. 
 
 seu thronus Dei expectat nos. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1850. 
 
 Quidve gratissimum datum a Deo. 
 1680. R. P. Caspar Laugier. 
 
 * This text is also a chronogram of the year in which the anagram was made. 
 Chrono-anagrams are not very common. 
 
 t This is an excellent anagram, and very appropriate. There was much 
 theological bitterness in the diocese of Li^ge just then. 
 
174 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 I Cor. XV. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Omnes in Adam peccaverunt. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 1. Ave, Mundi Mater ! non peccas. 
 
 2. Ortu munda, pie canem necas. 
 
 3. Peccant : verum Adami non es. 
 
 4. Eva peccas : Mundi Mater non. 
 
 5. Una demens peccato ruinam. 
 
 6. Munere tarn Diva non peccas. 
 
 7. En a peccato mundam .'' renuis ? 
 
 8. Nosce : munda viperam necat. 
 
 9. Os canet de una carmen pium. 
 
 AUuditur ad sententiam piam quo titulo sententiam 
 decorat de Immaculata Conceptione, Concilium Trident. 
 
 10. In Eva dum non peccas Mater. 
 
 C. Selhamer, Tuba Anagrammatka, 
 Prcefatio, p. 16, Aug. Vind., 1703. 
 
 1 1 . Ariane, munde concepta surn. 
 
 12. Unne secum Deiparam canto. 
 
 13. Des mane unico canto puram. 
 
 14. Peccamus : non una Dei Mater. 
 
 15. Unam puram decantes Niceo. 
 
 Didacus de Fuen Salida. Quoted in Bibliotheca Minorum 
 Frairum of Joannes a divo Antonio, Salmant., 1728, 4to. 
 
 16. En Mater adsum, non peccavi. 
 
 Sacerdos Clisinus (^Anagrammata 1084 in laudem 
 B. V. M. ex opere J. B. Agnensis erutd). 
 
 17. Unde sume : Maria non peccat. 
 
 L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 But the anagrammatist who claims first honours on this particular 
 text is Girolamo Scamardi, who died in 1684. On the festivals of the 
 Virgin, as Mongitore tells us in his Palermo divoto di Maria Vergine, 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 175 
 
 p. 189, Scamardi would ever be ready with some new literary curiosity 
 to celebrate the event. His anagrams were generally such as tended 
 to the praise or defence of the Immaculate Conception, and on one 
 festal occasion he made 132 pure anagrams on the special text we 
 have now come to : Omnes in Adam peccaverunt. These I have 
 never seen. They were probably on a votive placard, and not printed. 
 
 Anagramma in Doctorem 
 2 Cor. xi. 3. SuBTiLEM. 
 
 Timeo autem, ne sicut serpens Eas Servus Matris Dei, notas 
 Evam seduxit astutia sua, ita Textu sustine rursus Immunitates 
 corrumpantur sensus vestri. a peccato Parentum : Vive. (F.) 
 
 Gal. ii. 20. Anagramma. 
 
 Vivo autem, jam non ego ; vivit Inveni Evam Uteri muro victi 
 vero in me Christus. Anguis Hostem ovo. (F.) 
 
 Gal. vi. 14. 
 
 Programma. 
 
 Mihi autem absit gloriari, nisi in cruce Domini nostri Jesv Christi, 
 per quern mihi mundus crucifixus est, et ego mundo : 
 
 Sanctus Paulus, Epistola scripta ad Galatas, capite sexto ac versu xiv. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Hsec 
 
 lUustrissimus D. Adamus, S. R.I. Comes de Trautmanstorf in Weinberg: 
 
 Dominus Geimnislii, etc., S. Cruci ex qua vita in hac Ecclesia pro 
 
 Paup. Scholis Piis hanc aram gratuito posuit et evexit.* 
 
 Probatio. 
 ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTVX 
 
 13 I 9 4 12 I 3 3 21 4 77751 9 16 12 14 2 
 
 SuMMA, 151. 
 
 * From Cmlum novum in monte, Pragse, 1722. Cf. Bibliography. 
 
176 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Gal. vi. 14. 
 
 Absit gLorlarl, nisi In CrVCe 
 DoMInl nostrl lesV. Sanctus 
 Paulus ad Galatas, caplte vi. 
 
 Ephes. iii. 14. 
 
 Hujus rei gratia flecto genua mea 
 ad Patrem Domini nostri Jesu 
 Christi. 
 
 Philipp. ii. 8. 
 
 Humiliavit semetipsum, factus obe- 
 diens usque ad mortem, mortem 
 autem crucis. 
 
 Col. ii. 6. 
 
 Sicut ergo accepistis Jesum Chri- 
 stum, Dominum, in ipso ambulate. 
 
 I Thess. ii. 14. 
 
 Vos enim imitatores facti estis, 
 fratres, Ecclesiarum Dei. 
 
 I Tim. 
 Regi seculorum 
 
 1. 17. 
 
 immortali et 
 invisibili, soli Deo, honor et gloria 
 in secula seculorum. Amen. 
 
 I Tim. ii. i. 
 
 Obsecro igitur primum omnium 
 fieri obsecrationes, orationes, postu- 
 lationes. 
 
 * See Tobit ii. 14 for an account 
 Paul here referred to, who attained the 
 MDCCLVviiiiiiini (chronogram). 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Paulus Jubilaeus Gradicii Prsesul 
 attingat Nestoris annos. Ita ac- 
 cinimus Jure Cordis. 
 
 P. Florianus.* 
 
 Humilis sane in cruce mortem 
 patitur. Hei ! age divinas Deo 
 forti gratias. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1850. 
 
 Dum fui Mater Dei, hinc sequetur 
 me subtus cum eo restitisse porno 
 Immaculatam. (F.) 
 
 Saiicta cum sis, doles me hominem 
 jurium peccati subigi, prostitui. 
 
 (FO 
 
 Immaculata es : etiam Vir efFrontis 
 cordis sciet esse rite. (F.) 
 
 Anagramma in Opus Auctoris. 
 
 De hoc uno minimo Laboritio 
 ullam gloriam sumere nolo ; ilia 
 scitur esse Regis vera invicti. 
 Anon. Praparatio, 1716. 
 
 Menti, ori ter propono Nivem, si 
 Virga Jesse fit nobis Custos robore 
 Immaculato. (F.) 
 
 of this author's book, and of the Abbot 
 jubilee of his priesthood in 1770 — i.e. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 177 
 
 2 Tim. ii. 16. 
 
 Profana autem, et vaniloqua devita ; 
 multum enim proficiunt ad impie- 
 tatem. 
 
 Ad Titum i. 9. 
 
 Amplectentes eum, qui secundum 
 doctriham est, fidelem sermonem. 
 
 Ad Philem. 7. 
 Gaudium enim magnum habui, et 
 consolationem in charitate tua. 
 
 Heb. i. 10. 
 
 Et : Tu in principio, Domine, 
 terram fundasti, et opera manuum 
 tuarum sunt coeli. 
 
 Heb. xi. i. 
 
 Sperandarum substantia rerum, ar- 
 gumentum non apparentium. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 O quam patenti nuda Omnipotentia 
 erupit effluvium, Dei Mater Im- 
 maculata ? (F.) 
 
 Culpes Matrem .'' Des Electum 
 Nomen ; determineis =: Quam fecit 
 Dominus. (F.) * 
 
 Hocne eruat homo ingenii, statutam 
 abunde Immaculatam jungi ? (F.) 
 
 Donee perpuro nitenti Partu Divine 
 sis Mater, Nomen tuum fuerit =: 
 Immaculata. (F.)* 
 
 Grande bonum est a patre manans, 
 supernarum virtutum prima. 
 1680. P. F. Gaspar Laugier. 
 
 Heb. xi. 6. 
 Sine fide impossibile est placere E psalmis Deo benedic ! eo per- 
 Deo. siste, Fili. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 Ep. Cath. Jacobi iii. i. 
 
 Nolite plures magistri fieri, fratres Qui non profiteris Immaculatis- 
 
 mei, scientes quoniam jnajus judi- simam, fatere ; incitet vi summi 
 
 cium sumitis. Dei virilis egressus. (F.) 
 
 * I do not understand what these horizontal parallels signify in Italian typography, 
 but I leave them as in the original. Perhaps they were intended by Fidalmi for 
 colons. They clearly do not signify the same as Horatio Nelson = Honor est a Nilo. 
 
 12 
 
Ip 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 I Pet, ii. 3. 
 
 Si tamen gustastis quoniam dulcis 
 est Dominus. 
 
 2 Pet. ii. 14. 
 Pellicientes animas Instabiles, cor 
 exercitatum malitia liabentes ; male- 
 dictionis filii. 
 
 I Joan, ii, 28. 
 
 Et nunc, filioli, manete in eo, ut 
 cum apparuerit, habeamus fiduciam. 
 
 I Joan. v. i. 
 
 Omnis qui credit, quoniam Jesus 
 est Christus, ex Deo natus est. 
 
 I Joan. v. 7. 
 
 Quoniam tres sunt qui testimonium 
 dant in coelo : Pater, Verbum, et 
 Spiritus sanctus ; et hi tres unum 
 sunt. 
 
 2 Joan. 4. 
 
 Gavisus sum valde, quoniam inveni 
 de filiis tuis ambulantes in veritate. 
 
 3 Joan. 8. 
 
 Nos ergo debemus suscipere hujus- 
 modi, ut cooperatores simus veri- 
 tatis. 
 
 Ep. Cath. Jud^ ig. 
 
 Hi sunt qui segregant semetipsos, 
 animales, spiritum non habentes. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Non studes quid sum ? Es totis 
 signis Immaculata. (F.) 
 
 Eia collectis infinitis Libris et 
 Sanctis exhibete Latine Deiparam 
 in Sole Immaculatam. (F.) 
 
 Bene juvat honore affici Immacu- 
 latam ; tum plena Dei vincet. (F.) 
 
 Anxie tonatis. Nos quique testes 
 Dei sumus, Deo credimus. 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 Quot in Unitate Substantiae ? Unus 
 Trinusque Deus noster. Hinc 
 Temet Spiritum ter sanctum im- 
 ploramuSj 
 
 (MS.) L. J. Caris, 1854. 
 
 Lugete nubila, venti : Una stes 
 funestis aquis diluvii a Deo im- 
 munis Maria. (F.) 
 
 Subversos evoco sontes humi 
 pudores ; restitui coge Dei Puris- 
 sima Mater. (F.) 
 
 Plantant Virgam Jesse sanis Mitris 
 homines ; quos pungent ? Hebetes. 
 
 (F.) 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM 179 
 
 Apoc. xi. 19. 
 Et apertum est templum Dei in 
 coelo, et visa est area testamenti 
 ejus in templo ejus ; et facta sunt 
 fulgura et voces. 
 
 Apoc. xli. i. 
 
 Mulier amicta sole, et luna sub 
 pedibus ejus. 
 
 Apoc. xii. i. 
 
 Mulier amicta sole, et luna sub 
 pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus 
 corona stellarum. 
 
 Apoc xii. i. 
 Sancta Maria, mulier amicta sole. 
 
 Apoc xii. i. 
 
 Mulier amicta sole, et luna sub 
 pedibus ejus, et in capite ejus 
 corona stellarum duodecim. 
 
 Apoc. xii. 2. 
 
 Et in utero habens, clamabat 
 parturiens. 
 
 Apoc xii. 17. 
 Et iratus est draco in mulierem. 
 
 Et abiit facere praelium cum reli- 
 quis de semine ejus. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Sedente Papa Clemente Immaculata 
 Virginis Mariae Conceptio fulsit 
 Festum e statute ? Tu esse tuere, 
 ut salvet te. (F.) 
 
 Dei Rubus, Immaculate Jesu 
 plenus : i Ite labes. (F.) 
 
 AnaGRAMMA ET DiSTICHON. 
 
 Sub nuUis maculis Maria Evae 
 debuit esse. O vim ! o Serpenti 
 conteret ilia caput. 
 
 Jo. EVANGELISTA A PaNORMO. 
 
 1677. Musa Recentiores. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Scio, alma ; in terra es immaculata. 
 1664. P. DE Mancuso. 
 
 Dicite vos Coelites : En Maria Im- 
 maculata en per se Colubrum elusit 
 subinde vos plaudite. (B.) 
 
 1. Pulchra Verbi Mater nitebat 
 ante sanos. 
 
 2. Pulchra Verbi Mater nitebas 
 ante notas. (F.) 
 
 Silete virus contra Matrem Dei. (F.) 
 
 Ubi feretis Immaculatas Dei 
 Mulieri preces, en quies. (F.) 
 
I80 
 
 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Apoc. xiv. 12, 13. 
 Programma. 
 Hie patientia sanctorum est, qui custodiunt mandata Dei, et fidem Jesu. 
 Et audivi vocem de coelo, dicentem mihi : Scribe : Beati mortui qui in 
 Domino moriuntur. Amodo jam dicit Spiritus, ut requiescant a laboribus 
 suis ; opera enim illorum sequuntur illos. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 
 Unde nunc Divi. 
 Occidit Hispanum non victum milite robur : 
 
 Vosque (o invicti) vivitis orbis amor. 
 Alma Fides, Amor et Mundus, Patientia, Virtus. 
 
 Vos necat, hinc ducit, restituitque Deo. 
 Quasrite io ! Coeli solium sedemque beatam. 
 En Deus emeriti palma laboris erit. 
 
 1 68 1. Relacion de la Pompa Real Funebre 
 de los soldados, etc., Madrid. 
 
 This appropriate anagram was on two of the arches of the 
 Mausoleum in the Jesuit Church at Madrid erected in memory of 
 the soldiers who died for their country.* 
 
 * In the Jesuit tract from which I took this highly elaborate anagram there was 
 no Probatio Literarum ; but as it had been publicly exhibited at Madrid, and had also 
 received the imprimatur of the Jesuit College there, I did not test it, as I usually do. 
 However, it appears that the conscientious press reader for my printers took that 
 trouble, for my first proof had the marginal query, " Is this correct ? " I therefore 
 formed the Probatio, and found, to my great surprise, that it worked out thus : — 
 
 abcdefhilmnopqrstu 
 Progr. 
 
 14 4 9 10 19 I I 31 6 13 II 15 3 4 10 13 18 21 
 Anagr. 9 21 2 12 12 14 24 
 
 That is to say, the anagram wanted the letters d m o and had e e u u u h n over 
 and above its proper complement of letters. The letters deficient can be easily 
 supplied by writing D. O. M. (that is Deo Optimo Maximo) at the head of the 
 anagram ; and I have no doubt this usual inscription on funeral and other tablets was 
 originally inscribed at the head of the arches in the Jesuit Church. So far then the 
 anagram is much improved, but the superabundant letters I cannot get rid of or 
 account for. This apparently fine and appropriate anagram is therefore spoiled. 
 
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM ANAGRAMMATICUM i8i 
 
 Apoc. xvii. 6. 
 
 Et miratus sum, cum vidissem 
 illam admiratione magna. 
 
 Apoc. xvii. 7. 
 
 Ego dicam tibi sacramentum 
 mulieris. 
 
 Apoc xvii. 18. 
 
 Et mulier quam vidisti, et civitas 
 magna, quae habet regnum super 
 reges terras. 
 
 Apoc. xxi. i. 
 
 Et vidi caelum novum et terram 
 novam. 
 
 Apoc. xxi. 2. 
 
 Et ego, Joannes, vidi sanctam civi- 
 tatem, Jerusalem. 
 
 Apoc. xxi. 2. 
 
 Vidi sanctam civitatem, Jerusalem 
 novam, descendentem de coelo a 
 Deo, paratam, sicut sponsam orna- 
 tam viro suo. 
 
 Apoc xxi. 10. 
 
 Et sustulit me in spiritu in mon- 
 tem magnum et altum, et ostendit 
 mihi civitatem, sanctam Jerusalem. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Sors luminum, Agni sedati, summi 
 Dei Immaculata Mater. (F.) 
 
 1. Orbis ediscet Virginem Im- 
 maculatam. 
 
 2. Mirum ! Sic debet regi Im- 
 maculata Sion. (F.) 
 
 Erravit qui prassumit hanc ter 
 Grandem semel mergi ab aquis 
 Evas : Viget, ut est. (F.) 
 
 1. Do Ventrem Vitae. Renuo 
 Immaculatum ? 
 
 2. Te veneror Donum Vitas Im- 
 maculatum. 
 
 3. Novi te Donum ter verum 
 Immaculatae. (F.) 
 
 Regina Immaculata eo nomine tecti 
 Dei Vestis, Vas. (F.) 
 
 En Mater Dei Immaculata a Deo 
 est. Sed o ipsa sanctorum sanctior, 
 o spes mundi, o miraculum novum ! 
 Eja cantate Deo. (B.) 
 
 Tactus mons sit Ephraim ; legen- 
 tium, intuentium menti nil muto ; 
 tutissime est Dei Mater Immacu- 
 lata. (F.) 
 
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 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Apoc. xxi. 1 8. 
 
 Et erat structura muri ejus ex 
 lapide jaspide ; ipsa vero civitas, 
 aurum mundum simile vitro 
 mundo. 
 
 Anagrammata. 
 
 Vive Mater e macula Adam 
 prorsus immunis. Tu virtus Dei, 
 
 civitas sole purior 
 Pax Mundi. (B.) 
 
 de te viret 
 
 Apoc. xxi. 19. 
 Et fundamenta muri civitatis, omni O intret in me, Maria, ut Deo 
 lapide pretioso ornata. propitio fundata sit sine macula. 
 
 (B.) 
 
 Apoc. xxi. 24, 25. 
 
 Et ambulabunt gentes in lumine 
 ejus, et reges terrae afferent glo- 
 riam suam et honorem in illam. 
 Et portas ejus non claudentur per 
 diem, nox enim non erit illic. 
 
 Oh surget Virgo mire tuta e noxio 
 Serpente ! Et nonne erat labe 
 originali eminentissime patenter 
 munda effiandens illico lumen ter 
 clarum, lumen ter amabile. (B.) 
 
 Apoc. xxii. 3. 
 
 Et nunc maledictum non erit Digna prudens Mulier unde est } 
 
 amplius ; sed sedes Dei et Agni Nitet Liliis Immaculata. Nonne 
 
 in ilia erunt. decet se? (F.) 
 
 Apoc xxii. 16. 
 
 Ego, Jesus, misi angelum meum, Fies honeste sinus Egregie summi 
 
 testificari vobis haec in Ecclesiis. Celi, succi Immaculati ; eo ibis. 
 
 (F.) 
 
 Apoc xxii. 21. 
 
 Gratia Domini nostri Jesu Christi Cunctos inter homines sub odiis, 
 cum omnibus vobis. Amen. abit Immunis Virgo Maria. (F.) 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 J83 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 Agnensis, Joannes Baptista, i6ii — 1667. 
 
 This blind dependant of Cardinal Julius Rospigliosus may be justly 
 termed the Father of Biblical Anagrams, for it was his printed broad- 
 sheet of a hundred anagrams on the Angelical Salutation that first 
 brought them into fashion. Before this date, 1661, although there 
 were anagrams in plenty, they were for the most part non-Biblical. 
 His first attempt was : — 
 
 Centum anagrammata prorsus pura pro Deipara Virgine sine 
 originali peccato concepta, quae D. Joannes Baptista Agnensis, sola 
 memoriae vi, nam oculorum lumine fere orbatus literas in papyro 
 exaratas inspicere non valet, eruit ex his Salutationis Angelicas 
 verbis: "Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum." 
 
 Romas, Typis Ign. de Lazzaris, 1661. 
 
 In . folio expanse, i.e. a broadsheet, and as an addition to the 
 Mariale of St. Joseph the Hymnographer, which was translated into 
 Latin and edited the same year, 1661, by H. Maraccius. 
 
 This was reissued at Cologne the year following as : — 
 
 Gloria immaculate Conceptae Deiparas V. M. centum ecclesiae testi- 
 moniis et anagrammatibus ex Salutatione Angelica deductis stabilita. 
 
 Col., 1662, i6mo. 
 And at Paris : — 
 
 Centum anagrammata prorsus pura pro Deipara Virgine quae D. 
 Joannes Bapt. Agnensis, sola memoriae vi, eruit ex his Salutationis 
 Angelicas verbis: "Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum." 
 
 Parisiis (Henault), 1662. 
 Also Bruxellae, 1662, 4 pp. 4to. 
 18S 
 
1 86 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 Then followed : — 
 
 Marianae purltatis triumphus per Joannem Agnensem Cyrnaeum 
 Calvensem elaboratus, elogiis vero per Bernardinum Bentium Venetum 
 exornatus. 
 
 Venet., 1662, 8vo. 
 
 Also a further supply of anagrams by the blind author in various 
 broadsheets, viz. : — 
 
 The following pathetic Corona in 1663 : — 
 
 Corona Anagramraatica Gemmarum xii. duodecies multiplicata, 
 quam Joannes Baptista Agnensis, Eminentissimi Principis S. R. E. 
 Cardinalis Julii Rospigliosi aulicus, oculorum lumine omnino orbatus, 
 in honorem Deiparse Virginis sine macula conceptas xii. duodecies 
 multiplicatis Anagrammatibus prorsus puris, in quibus singulis eadem 
 Deipara Virgo in suo Conceptu pura, ut Gemma continuo celebratur, 
 composuit ex his Salutationis Angelicas verbis : " ave, maria, 
 GRATIA PLENA ; DOMiNVS TECVM." Dciparag Virginis Marias con- 
 ceptas, Dominas suae clementissimae Humilis servulus Joannes Baptista 
 Agnensis, D. D. D. 
 
 Nonne duodecim sunt horas diei ? Mihi autem tametsi (ne) ? una 
 quidem sit diei hora, sed omnes horae sint unica hora noctis ; tamen 
 ecce Gemmas xii. duodecies multiplicatas, velut tributum noctis meae 
 in horas singulas, ego caecus tuus tibi pendo, o Solis aeterni Mater ! 
 Alibi dies diei eructet verbum, et nox nocti indicet scientiam : apud 
 me nox mea eructat diei tuo verbum, o Mater Verbi, quod concepturam 
 Te iisdem verbis Angelus salutavit, quae hisce Anagrammatibus materiam 
 nobilem, ac Gemmas his duodecim Coronis tuis praebuere, o ter 
 Augusta Regina caslorum atque terrarum. Ubique Gemmae nitent, 
 et quidem Tuas, nocte una, sed longa elaboratae in Coronarias laudes 
 Tuas. Neque tamen sunt opera tenebrarum, sed piae tenebrae meae in 
 optimo tuo lumine splendide coUocatae. 
 
 [Altogether 144 anagrams, each containing "Gemma."] 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 187 
 
 Then, later on in the same year, 1663 : — 
 
 Monilia Anagrammatica xii. 
 Annus Anagrammaticus (365), 
 Decacrostichis Anagrammatica (3 1 o), 
 
 which brought forth : — 
 
 Joannis Bapt. Agnensis Decacrostichis et trecentis denis anagram- 
 matibus prorsus puris pro pura in Conceptu Deipara . . . erutis, recens 
 a Musa Moguntina concinnata et Epigrammatibus totidem ad Im- 
 maculatse Virginis amorem et gloriam adornata. 
 
 Mogunt., 1664, 8vo. 
 
 And Alva y Astorga tells us (^Militia Imm. Concept., Lovanii, 1663, 
 foL, p. 1408) that the original first hundred anagrams were turned into 
 Spanish {Hispamce reddidit) in some way by Sylvester de Cabrera, but I 
 can find no other record of this. 
 
 And finally, in 1665, the whole collection was arranged, selected, 
 and published, at the expense of Hippolytus Maraccius, in the following 
 octavo volume : — 
 
 Conceptio Immaculatae Deiparas Virginis Mariae celebrata mcxv. 
 anagrammatis prorsus puris ex hoc Salutationis Angelicas programmate 
 deductis : " Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum." A J. B. 
 Agnensi Cyrnaeo Calvensi, Card. Julii Rospigliosi aulico casco : edente 
 Hippolyto Maraccio. 
 
 Romse, Typis Ign. de Lazzaris, 1665. 
 
 The editor gives a short account of the author as follows : — He 
 was born April 24th, 161 1, at Calvi, in Corsica {Greece, Cyrnon) ; hence 
 his title, " Cyrneus Calvensis." He studied at Genoa, and became a 
 priest, and in 1657 was taken into the household of Card. Rospigliosus, 
 where he served a syrmate, i.e. as one of his train. He was not blind 
 then. A few days before his blindness came on he read by chance an 
 anagram by P. Joan. Euseb. Nierembergius on Pope Alexander VII., 
 and this anagram, which raised considerable controversy in its day, was 
 
1 88 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 the origin of his attempts. He died in 1667, two years after his book 
 was published. 
 
 There were several posthumous editions : — 
 
 Oraculum Parthenium . . . ab eximio viro Joanne Baptista 
 Agnensi sola vi mentis ob defectum visus, centum puris Anagram- 
 matis ex priori editione selectis devote pariter ac ingeniose revelatum et 
 a M. Stanislao Josepho Biezanowski, Leopol., in Alma Universitate 
 Cracoviensi Philosophias Doctore . . . visu ab annis octodecim 
 orbato totidem epigrammatum centuria illustratum. 
 
 Not paged. Sig. A — L (pp. 42). Cracovias, 1668, fol. 
 
 secunda editio, Cracoviae, 1682, i2mo. 
 
 tertia editio, Cracovias, 1684, 4to. 
 
 In opere : Deliciae Octiduanae.* 
 
 Immaculatam Virginis Deiparae Lilietum . . . centum quinquaginta 
 Anagrammatis, a clarissimo viro J. B. Agnensis . . . elaboratum et a 
 M. Stanislao Josepho Biezanowski, in Alma Universitate Crac. Phil. 
 Doct., Poeseos Professore, ab annis 2 5 visu orbato totidem Epigrammatis, 
 in quinque Areolas dispositum. 
 
 Not paged. 25 leaves. Cracoviae, 1675, fol. 
 
 secunda editio, Cracoviae, 1684, 4to. 
 
 In opere : Deliciae Octid.* 
 
 There were editions of the 1 1 15 anagrams complete : — 
 Venet., 1684, 32mo ; Venet., 1731, i6mo. 
 Mediol., s. a., 8vo, pp. 80. (St. Mark's Library, Venice.) 
 And the following : — 
 
 Puritas Beatae Marias Virginis et speciatim in Conceptione illius 
 Immaculata anagrammatibus 1 1 1 5 prorsus puris, in caecitate compositis, 
 
 * This work, of which I have a fine copy bound in red silk, was issued by 
 S. J. Biezanowski, who was Doctor of Philosophy and Professor of Poetry in the 
 University of Cracow, in the thirty-fifth year of his total blindness. It contained all 
 the Epigrams he had previously written on the anagrams of J. B. Agnensis. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 1S9 
 
 mirabiliter asserta, authore J. B. Agnensi, Sacerdote Corsicano Calvensi 
 . . . vehementer cupienti et instanter oranti ut ejusmodi officio Concept. 
 Immac. B. V. M. erga quam ardenter afficiebatur honorare possit. 
 
 pp. 32, sig. A — D. Romae, s. a. [1710], 8vo. 
 At end — 
 
 GLorIa sit Del ParentI sine MaCVLa ortae, 
 
 which gives the date. 
 
 In 1726 appeared : — 
 
 Lusus in re seria | Anagrammata | videlicet | cccxli. ex Luc. i. 28 
 eruta. Ex autore non uno collecta, aucta passim et varie mutata a 
 Mapias 'lepojTctTTjs AouXw KapSta/cw. 
 
 pp. 50. Aug. Vind., 1726, 4to. 
 
 The author says in his notes he could easily have enlarged his 
 collection if he had been able to find a complete edition of J. B. 
 Agnensis, and adds that as far as his own experience went — and he 
 had hunted among all his friends for the book — it was indeed a rara 
 avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno. 
 
 I may add that all the above works are still rare. Not one is in 
 the British Museum.* 
 
 161 1. Henningius, Caspar. 
 
 Musa Anagrammatum IIPAKTIKH, sive Praecepta de conscribendis 
 anagrammatismis. 
 
 Sig. A — V (pp. 168). Jenae, 161 1, 4to. 
 
 This rare book is in the WolfenbQttel Library. It contains 271 
 anagrams — only a very few Biblical. 
 
 * It must not be inferred from this that a visitor to the British Museum Library 
 would not be able to find there a single one of the anagrams of their first bhnd 
 propagator. They are to be found included wholly or partly in the Atlas Marianus of 
 G. Gumppenburg, and in the collected works of Th. Raynaudus, S.J., but they require 
 some searching out. 
 
190 BlBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 1619. FiNOTTi, Christophorus. 
 Parnassi Violse. | Odarum, Distichorum et Anagrammatum | Libri 
 Tres. I Auctore Christophoro Finotto, | Veneto S. C. Publico | Professori. 
 Ad Illustriss. et Excellentiss. D. D. | Franciscum Contarenurn, | Equltem J 
 et Procuratorem Amplissimum. | 
 
 Venetiis, Ap. P. de Farris, 1619. 
 4 fF. + 86 ff. = 180 pp. 
 
 Sertum Poeticum seu Carminum Libri Quinque. Authore Rev. 
 P. D. Christophoro Finotto, Veneto Congregat. Somaschae Theologo. 
 
 Venetiis, 1606, 8vo. 
 12 ff. + 450 pp. + 66 pp. (index). 
 
 1620. Angelus de Omineis. 
 
 Anagrammatum | tractatus novus | authore | Magistro Angelo de 
 Omineis, Doctore Theologo, | Conventus D. Augustini de Firmo Priore, | 
 111""" et R""" D. D. Scipioni Burghesio, S. R. E, | Cardinal! amplissimo | 
 dicatus. I 
 
 Maceratas, 1620, 4to. 
 
 10 11. prel., 126 pp. + 5 11. ind. 
 
 A very rare early treatise on the subject. Besides my own, I know 
 two copies at Florence, Bib. Rice. ; one copy in Mazarin Lib., Paris. 
 
 1633. Genuinus, Hieronymus. 
 
 Hieronymi | Genuini | J. C. Neapolitani | Metamorphoses | Nomi- 
 num, I sive | Anagrammatcun | centuriae | quatuor. | His accedit de 
 conscriben | dis Anagrammatis | Tractatus. | 
 
 Neap., Apud Franciscum Savium, | 1633. 
 
 6 ff. + 226 pp. + I f. errata in i2mo. 
 
 Many of these anagrams were extremely neat and appropriate ; 
 enlarged editions appeared at Rome in 1635 and 1640, and drew 
 attention to the art, which was then at a very low ebb in Italy, and it 
 regained favour. 
 
Bibliography 191 
 
 1654. Alcala y Herrera, Alonso de. 
 
 (i) Jardim Anagrammatico | de Divinas | Flores Lusitanas, Hes- 
 panho I las e Latinas | contem | seiscentos e oitenta | e tres Anagrammas 
 em prosa e ver | so e seis Hymnos Chronologicos | dividese | em seis 
 opuscules nastres | linguas | consagrase | ao supremo Conselho da| 
 Sancta General Inquisi^ao destes | Reynes e Senhorios de Portugal, j 
 Autor I Alonso de Alcala | y Herrera, natural da Inclyta | Cidade de 
 Lisboa. | 
 
 Lisboa, 1654, 4to. 
 
 13 ff. prel., pp. 274 and 2 pp. 
 
 (2) Psalterium quadruplex -anagram maticum Angelicum Immacu- 
 latum, Marianum, Delparae dicatum, sexcentos Latina anagrammata 
 complectens. 
 
 Ulyssip., 1664, i2mo. 
 
 The first I possess, but the second I have not been able to find. 
 
 1662. Sangeorgius, Hippolyte (Piemontois, nat. 1620)- 
 
 Immaculatum Rosarium quindena contentum decade, sive quin- 
 quaginta supra centum anagrammata omnino elementaria et pura ex 
 Angelicis verbis: "Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum." Auctore 
 gratioso Eremicola. 
 
 Taurini, 1662, 4to. 
 
 This was no doubt the very earliest anagrammatic Rosary, being 
 published only the year after J. B. Agnensis started the anagrams on the 
 " Ave " with his first century of them. 1 have not been able to see 
 this book. 
 
 1664. TuR'Rius A LucA, Joannes Franciscus. 
 
 (i) Anagrammata | Virginea | pura prorsus omnia et singula | e 
 sacratissimis Angelicas Salutationis : | " ave, maria, gratia plena ; 
 DOMiNvs TECVM " | thesauro | innumeris mysteriorum arcanis re- 
 dundante, | quasi pretiosae Gemmae deprompta, | pro devotissimis 
 omnium fidelium suspiriis, j in exaltationem Immaculatae Conceptionis | 
 
192 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 Beads. Virginis Matris Dei Marlae, | ad | Alexandrum VIL, | Pontif. 
 Maxim, egregium, ejusdem Immaculatae Conceptionis cultorem. Fr. 
 Joannes Franciscus a Luca, ex Familia Turria, Capuccinus, | scribebat. | 
 Lucae, Ex typ. Hyacinth! Pacii, | mdclxiiii, 4to. 
 
 52 pp., with a good portrait of the author facing the title- 
 page (" Adr. Haelwegh, sc"), with this inscription : " P. Jo. Franciscus 
 Turrius a Luca, Capp., obiit Romae die 16. Jan. 1665, astatis suas 
 anno 73." 
 
 There is a preface by Joannes Turrius, nephew of the author. 
 Then two letters thanking this nephew for bringing to light the anagrams 
 of his uncle, and praising their ingenuity, in the metrical portion 
 especially. It appears incidentally that the author was too modest to 
 publish his great literary labour. 
 
 Next follow several anagrams on Alexander Septimus, such as Rex 
 in SEDE ut lampas. Rex Spes lata Mundi, Re mundi Sal et Pax es, etc. 
 All good, but none quite so appropriate as one which Simone Santagata, 
 a citizen of Bologna and one of the Accademici Gelati, offered to the 
 Pope in 1663, when he asked him to assert the Dogma of the Immacu- 
 late Conception. He said : " Alexander Septimus, tu splendes ex 
 Maria ! " 
 
 This book is very rare, and I did not meet with a copy of it in any 
 of the Italian libraries I have visited. It was dedicated to Lorenzo 
 Cenami, who was ambassador from the Court of Spain to the Republic 
 of Lucca, and it seems that most of the copies went to Spain and were 
 eagerly read there, so says the nephew in his later edition of 1684. 
 There is, however, a copy at Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, which once 
 belonged to the Capucins de St. Honore. The anagrams are 1179 in 
 number. 
 
 (2) Vita I del venerabile Servo di Dio, | F. Gio. Francesco 
 Torre | da Lucca, | Cappucino. | Data in luce da Michele di 
 Poggio, I e dedicata | all' Illustriss. e Reverendiss. Sig. | Fla'mmino 
 Nobili, I vicario generale | dell' eminentissimo | Sig. Cardinale Spinola, | 
 
 ' In Lucca, Per i Marescandoli, 1685. 
 
 6 ff. prel., pp. 292. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 193 
 
 pp. 227—292 contain the 1179 anagrams of the 1665 edition, and 
 also the two Rosaries delivered to his nephew on his deathbed, as 
 mentioned in our prefatory Introduction. Here we have a total of 
 1 5 1 5 anagrams, 42 9 of which are metrical ! 
 
 This life of our saintly anagrammatist is full and interesting. He 
 voluntarily endured many austerities and privations, and his blessing 
 was in great request, both with the rich and the poor. The sick 
 believed it would assist their recovery, and it did so. Others required 
 it for other purposes, and also obtained their desires. The original 
 Italian version will best explain this : " Molte signore di quella citta 
 (Lucca), con raccomandarsi al P. Torre, ottenero posterita, della quale 
 gia desperavano affaUo." And more than this, when he died his cordone 
 was in remarkable request, and was continually being carried "a gl' 
 Infermi & alle Tarturienti, del quale si cingevano per dare i loro parti 
 senza offesa alia luceT 
 
 He died in the odour of sanctity, and when his body was lying in 
 the Capucins' Church, previous to interment, there was such a concourse 
 of people struggling for relics from the departed servant of God, that 
 it was eventually resolved, when no more relics were obtainable, to 
 open his body for blood, so that the handkerchiefs and garments of 
 the crowd might be dipped therein. He was vouchsafed visions of 
 Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and several miracles are mentioned as con- 
 nected with him. At page 63 there is a "cat" miracle, and at page 65 
 a "swallow" miracle. Turrius and his great fellow-anagrammatist 
 Bonaventura have many points in common. They were no doubt 
 simple, earnest, and conscientious men, brought up from their early 
 days in surroundings strictly religious — they inhaled the Church 
 atmosphere every day of their life, and their relations were bound 
 to the Church even as themselves. The brother of Turrius, who was 
 named Bernardino, had thirteen children, and only one remained in the 
 world (" uno solo ne restate nel secolo ") to perpetuate the family name. 
 Something very similar is related of Bonaventura's relations in the 
 Introduction, as the reader may remember. 
 
 13 
 
194 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATlCA 
 
 1663. Angelo Maria de Servatoribus. 
 
 Opuscula a Fratre Angelo Maria de Servatoribus, Cremonense, 
 Ord. Serv. B. V. M., Clerico Professo, elaborata, partim ob ingressum 
 Sponsas Regalis Francisca Borboniae, in Taurinum et partim in 
 Academia Incultorum recitata. 
 
 pp. 16 (Bib. Ambr., Milan). Aug. Taur., 1663, 4to. 
 
 1664. Mancuso, Pet. de. 
 
 De Immaculatas | Virginis | illibata Conceptione | anagrammata | 
 Petri de Mancuso, | Leonfortensis. | 
 
 pp. 122 in 8vo. Panormi, Apud Josephum Bisagni, 1664. 
 
 1665. Salvi, F. Pompeius. 
 
 Anagrammata | e nominibus | Sanctorum | quorum Festos dies 
 Romana Ecclesia et Seraphica | Religio quotannis celebrare consuevit. 
 Item quingenta pro Deipara Virgine e Salutationis | Angelicas verbis : 
 "Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum." | Et alia deprompta | a F. 
 Pompeio Salvi, | Ferrariensi, Min. Con., | lUustrissimo Domino D. 
 Amyfrano Franzono, | Patrono Colendissimo. | 
 
 Genuae, Typographias Patri Joannis Calenzani, 1665. | Superiorum 
 permissu. | 
 
 8 fF. prel., pp. 240 and i of errata. 
 
 The first 150 pages are taken up with the Saints of the Roman 
 Calendar. Then sixteen pages of Franciscans. Then the 150 anagrams 
 on various texts from the Psalms, reproduced in this present collection. 
 Then pp. 187-240 contain 525 anagrams on the "Ave," and some 
 anagrams on Scriptural characters. There is a copy in the University 
 Library of Genoa having on its title-page, " Collegii Genu'^ Soci'^ Jesu, 
 ex dono Auctoris." The only other copy I know is in the public library 
 of Lucca. 
 
 1666. Tylkowsky, Adalbert, S.J. 
 
 Anagrammata de Festis Christi et Beatas Virginis. 
 
 Varsoviae, 1666, 12 mo. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 195 
 
 1670. Joannes Januszkowitz. 
 
 Echo e Polonia Romam tendens, in qua centum anagrammatis 
 super Salutatione Angelica per clarissimum virum Joannem Baptistam 
 Agnensem formatis, et ab excellentissimo viro M. Stanislao Josepho 
 Biezanowski . . . carmine epigrammatico illustratis, centum itidem 
 anagrammatis super salutatione Elizabeth, qua salutavit Beatissimam 
 Virginem Mariam, ab illustri et admodum reverendo Joanne Janusz- 
 kowic, custode et officiali Tarnoviensi, concinnatis, versibus ab eodem 
 super hasc anagrammata additis, respondetur. 
 
 Anno a partu Virginis 1670. Cracovias, Apud heredes Christoph. 
 Schedel. 
 
 29 fF. non num., pp. 58 in fol. 
 
 The anagrams are upon Luc. i. 42 : " Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et 
 benedictus fructus ventris tui," but I have been unable to add them to 
 the collection, as I cannot discover where the book is to be seen. There 
 was a copy, probably unique, at Lemberg, so I was informed by 
 M. Estreicher, who knows all that is known about Polish books. I 
 caused enquiries to be made at Lemberg, and was informed that the book 
 had been " missing " for some years. 
 
 1671. Joannes Evangelista a Panormo, 1617 — 1694. 
 
 (i) Anagrammata I sacra |suavis Animee desuaviatio, | pii Musarum 
 lusus I admodum Reverendi | P. D. Jo. Evangelistae a Panormo, | Prioris 
 Casinensis, et S. T. Lectoris, | Opusculum | alias typis demandatum, 
 sed auctum modo ; | cui anagrammata quaedam non sacra | accessere. | 
 
 Panormi, Ticini Regii, et iterum Mutinas, Ex | Typographia A. 
 Cassiani, anno 1671. | Superiorum permissu. | 
 
 4 ff. prel., 178 pp. + I err. in 8vo. 
 
 (2) Musae recentiores ] sacrae morales | jucundum animi | oblecta- 
 
 mentum | admodum R. Patris | D. Jo. Evangelistae a Panormo, | Prioris 
 
 Sancti Martini | de scalis Panormi et | S. T. P. | 
 
 ^ , Panormi, 1677, 8vo. 
 
 4 ff. prel., 117 pp. + I err. 
 
 The first edition of (i) was Panormi, 1662, 8vo. 
 
196 BIBLIA ANA(^RAMMATICA 
 
 1 67 1. NuTius, Leonardus (Academicus agitatus Neap.). 
 CcEleste Viridarium Mariale pro Deipara Virgine absque labe 
 originalis peccati concepta trecentis anagrammatibus penitus puris 
 vallatum. Neap., 1671, 8vo. 
 
 1672. Pierre de Saint Louis (Carmelite). 
 
 ' La Muse | Bouquetifere | de Notre Dame | de Laurete. | 
 
 A Viterbe, Chez P. Martinet, mdclxxii. 
 I f. prel., pp. 80 in 8vo.* 
 
 This is the book by the Carmelite, Pierre de Saint Louis, from 
 which the anagrams quoted at Luke i. 28, on the "Ave, Maria," are 
 all taken. He had a very great repute as an anagram writer, but, with 
 the exception of this rare book, all his anagrammatic labour has vanished. 
 His life was a singular one, and the Abbe Follard, Chanoine de 
 Nismes, contributed to the Mercure de France for July, 1750, a good 
 account of this eccentric Carmelite, who was the author of the poem of 
 La Magdeleine, 1668, frequently reprinted, and an anagrammatist of the 
 first water, as this Biblia Anagrammatic a plainly shows. He was born at 
 Vaureas, a small town in the diocese of Vaison, in 1626. His father, 
 Jacques Barthelemi, was by no means well off, but of Pierre's brothers, 
 one became a priest and another a notary. At the age of eighteen he 
 fell in love with a country girl of his district called Magdeleine, but just 
 as they were to be married she died of the small-pox. His grief was 
 most profound, and he determined at last to leave the world and 
 become a Carmelite. 
 
 Love taught him anagrams, and one day we hear that he sent 
 Magdeleine three dozen on her own name, and verses as well. Louis 
 Barthelemi, for that was his name before he joined the Carmelites, could 
 certainly not boast of his good looks ; we have abundant evidence of that. 
 
 Abb6 Follard describes him as having " une taille courte et epaisse, une 
 tete horriblement grosse, les yeux assez beaux, mais un nez que Von ne pouvait 
 appeller un nez, que pane quil se trouvait dans Tendroit de visage on la 
 nature place cette partie." 
 
 * This volume is in the British Museum, and is the rarest volume connected with 
 anagrams that our great library possesses. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 197 
 
 Cosmas de Villiers a S. Stephano, in the Bibliotheca Carmelitana, 
 describes him as " statura quidem ut alter Zach^eus pusillus : verum capita, 
 retrorsum antrorsumque gibber, sed ingenio magnus." And Barjavel, Diet, 
 de la Vaucluse, quite agrees by describing him as " hossu par devant et par 
 derriere^ 
 
 He was eventually sent to a wretched Carmelite convent of Pineti 
 among the Alps, by his enemy Pater Brocardus, Provincial of the same 
 order, whom he. had irritated by anagrammatising as Pardus et Crabro 
 (Ah, Pierre, you had forgotten : Ne irrites crabrones), and he died there 
 in 1684. 
 
 He believed there were Divine presages both in anagrams and 
 dreams, agreeing with the Rabbis and their cabalistical works, of which 
 he was a student. Especially he looked to find a man's destiny in his 
 name, and would cite himself as a good case in point: 
 
 Ludovicus Barthelemi = Carmelo se vovet ; 
 
 but here he failed to do himself justice, or else his biographer has 
 bungled the story. 
 
 He was a good, humble, scrupulously religious Carmelite. He 
 strongly avoided the fair sex, and used to take his walks through the 
 town with his eyes shut. But he was not blind to his own good 
 qualities, for he composed this anagram on himself : 
 
 Petrus a Sancto Ludovico, Carmelita. 
 
 Anagramma. 
 Castus olor, dulci cantu, Poeta Marie. 
 
 1672. Anon. 
 
 Divo I Francisco Borgiae | e duce Gandiae tertio Soc. Jesu Generali | 
 a Clemente, X. Pont. Max., | Sanctorum caelitum fastis adscripto | En- 
 comia I Emblemate prosa, versu. | In aede Salvatoris Soc. Jes. ad S. 
 Clementcm | publice affixa, | dum Philosophiam ejus auspiciis cceptara | 
 Prima laurea coronarent | Physici Pragenses. | » r 
 
 7 fF. (two being plates), A — L4, with single sheet (folding) at end. 
 Penes me. A copy at Prague, but defective, wanting the seven pre- 
 liminary leaves. 
 
198 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 1672. Laurentius Baptista, S.J., 1625 — 1689. 
 
 (i) Decas | sacrorum | anagrammatum | e | sacris | program matis, | 
 utpote I sacris hymnis, | textibusque sacris | metrico labore | concinna- 
 torum. I 
 
 Vetero-Pragae, Typ. G. Czernoch, 1672. 
 
 27 fF. 4to + 8 dedic, with 9 engravings. 
 
 (2) Decas | Mariana | Marianor um | anagrammatum j e | Marianis pro- 
 grammatis | utpote | Marianis | Hymnis, | Textibusque Marianis | metrice 
 elaborate | rum. | 
 
 Vetero-Pragae, Typ. G. Czernoch, 1673. 
 25 fF. and 11 engravings. 
 
 (3) Decas | Anagram | matum | metrica arte | elaboratorum | illustrissi- 
 mo I honori Sereniano | sacra. | 
 
 Vetero-Pragas, Typ. Dan. Michalek, 1680. 
 15 fF. 4to, and 4 engravings. 
 
 (4) Anagrammata | metro elaborata | tribus | Hispanis Sanctis | 
 Laurentio Martyri, | Diacono Romano, | Ignatio de Loyola, | Societatis 
 Jesu Fundatori, | Francisco Xavierio, | Indiarum Apostolo, | consecrata. | 
 
 Pragas, Typ. Archi-Episcop. in Emmaus, 1682. 
 7 fF. prel. and A — Hj in 4to (74 pp.). 
 
 (5) Decades | Quatuor | Sacrorum | Anagrammatum [ metrico | artificio 
 elaboratorum | honori | Urbis | Plsnas | dedicates. | 
 
 Pragas, Typ. G. Czernoch, s. a., 4to. 
 6 fF. prel. and A — Eg (48 pp.), with 4 engravings. 
 
 No name of author is given, but there is an address to the Senators 
 of Plsna, dated 1681, which says that the author composed the first 
 thirty anagrams when ill from the plague. The author was undoubtedly 
 Laurentius Baptista, S.J. 
 
 The works of this great anagrammatist are rare and curious in the 
 highest degree. His fellow-Jesuits, the De Backers and Sommervogel, 
 in their immense Bibliography of their order, do not seem to have seen 
 any of the above works, and until the last edition Baptista's name does 
 not appear at all. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 199 
 
 No existing anagrams can compare with the above in length and 
 laborious difficulty, but their proper place is in an Anagrammatic 
 Breviary, which may yet be collected together if time allow. 
 
 The only account I can find of this learned Jesuit is by J. F. 
 Hammerschmid, in his Prodromus Gloria Pragena, Pragas, 1723, fol., 
 at p. 340 : " Anno 1689, in CoUegio Neo-Pragensi, pie in Domino obiit 
 Seminarii S. Xavierii specialis Promoter, et per annos xv. continuos 
 Seminarii Regens, P. Laurentius Baptista, vir antiquae et columbine 
 simplicitatis, de quo non incongrue dici poterat : ' Ecce vere Israelita in 
 quo dolus non est.' Plsnas natus, 1525; Neo-Pragas denatus, 1689." 
 
 1674. Carolus a S. Antonio Patavino (Anconitanus). 
 
 Liber Anagrammatum multis Epigrammatis ornatus, inter quas 
 Anagrammata aliquot inscriptiones, sive Elogia novas inventionis. 
 Eminentissimo Principi Flavio Card. Chisio S. R. E., Bibliothecario 
 Apostolico dicatus. Authore Carolo a S. Antonio Patavino, Anconitano, 
 Religionis Pauperum Matris Dei, Scholarum Piarum. 
 
 Romae, Typis Rev. Cam. Apost., 1674. 
 
 9 fF. + 150 pp. + 6 ind. in 8vo. 
 
 1674. 
 
 Oraculum | Anagrammaticum | ad favorem | serenissimse Venetas 
 Reipublicae | ej usque tutae conservationem | dicatum, | toti excellentissimo 
 ejusdem Reipublicas Collegio, | a Joanne de Pasquinis a Laterina sub 
 Aretina DicEcesi in Hetruria, | in principio hujus anni millesimi sex- 
 centesimi septuagesimi quarti. | 
 
 pp. 8. Venetiis, Apud Valvasensem, mdclxxiv, 4to. 
 
 The author in his preface says he had lately heard of, but not seen 
 in print, the famous anagram of Hier. Genuinus on St. Mark.* This 
 induced him to try to make one too, and he succeeded in producing the 
 six he published. 
 
 * This was Divus Marcus Evangelista = Sum vigil ad Venetas curas. I originally 
 intended to place the various anagrams on the Apostles and Evangelists in this Biblia, 
 but afterwards reserved them for the Breviarium Anagrammaticum, soon, I hope, to 
 pass the pikes of the press. 
 
200 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 1681. 
 
 Relacion ' y descripcion de la Pompa Real Funebre, con que se 
 hizieron las Exequias de los Soldados que han muerto en servicio de 
 su Magestad deste el Principio de la Guerra, en la Iglesia del Colegio 
 Imperial de la Compania de Jesus. Domingo, 1 6 de Novembre de este 
 ano 1 68 1. 
 
 2 fF. + pp. 20. [Madrid,] 1681, 4to. 
 
 Contains the fine anagram in six elegiacs on Apoc. xiv. 12, 13. 
 
 P.S. Fine anagram forsooth ! Trust not to the Jesuits when they 
 keep their Probatio literarum up their sleeve ! Cf. p. 180 ante. 
 
 1683. 
 
 "Triumpho Parthenico " of D. Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora. 
 
 Mexico, 1683, 4to. 
 8 fF. prel. and 177 fF. 
 
 This was a literary tournament, or certamen poetico, held for four 
 days at Mexico in 1683, in honour of the Immaculate Conception of the 
 Virgin. It was instituted and conducted by the University of Mexico. 
 
 As usual, the cento and the anagram both played their part in the 
 tournament. At folios 77 and 78 there are two prize centos from the 
 poems of D. Luis de Gongora (Madrid, 1654) of seventy-three lines 
 each. The first prize was won by D. Francisco de Ayerra Santa Maria, 
 who also carried off the first prize for the anagram. 
 
 There was a little pageantry and display, chiefly of a symbolical and 
 emblematical kind, at these contests, and the prize anagram was founded 
 on this. 
 
 The first emblematical device was an eagle on its nest, on the top 
 of a hill, and the allusions herein contained with reference to the Virgin 
 Mary were manifold. 
 
 (i) Aristotle says that the eagle alone of birds was of true and 
 untainted origin. 
 
 (2) The eagle brings forth in high and lofty places, even as Mary 
 " se concibib en las eminencias de la gracia " whence Adam and all his 
 posterity with him fell. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 201 
 
 (3) The eagle places in her nest the " aetites," or eagle-stone, which 
 protects from the poison and attacks of evil serpents. And so the 
 Blessed Virgin, by power of the stone laid in Zion for a foundation, 
 destroys the malice and venom of the Old Serpent. 
 
 There was an allusion to the subject of the emblem in Job xxxix. 
 30, and this was the text given for the anagrams. 
 
 The first prize was the metrical anagram No. i. The second prize 
 was won by Jose Lopez de Abiles, who sent up Nos. 2, 3, 4, and the 
 third prize by Juan Lopez de Abiles, probably a brother of the second 
 prizeman, with the Spanish anagram No. 5. To turn a Latin Scriptural 
 text into a Spanish anagram is a very unusual artifice. 
 
 1685 — 1689. Eede, Guilielmus vanden. 
 
 Observationes Anagrammaticas | et Chronicae | circa felices pro- 
 gressus | Belli Austriaci j adversus Turcam anno 1685, | Sacra Cassareae 
 Majestati | oblatae. | 
 
 {^Ad fineni) Patienter concinnata patienter lege | Quje Amicorum 
 postulatu, Superiorum permissu, in lucem dabat. | P. Guil. vanden 
 Eede, Brux., Soc. Jesu. Sac. | 
 
 Prostant Gandavi, Typis Henrici Saetreuwer, via vulgo (Brabant- 
 Straet) dicta, | sub signo Albas Columbae, 1685. 
 
 2 if. in 4to. 
 
 Ludi Geniales Augustissimo Caesari Leopoldo Primo victoriis 
 Austriacis adversus Portam Ottomannicam gloriosissimo, dedicati a P- 
 Guilielmo vanden Eede, Bruxellensi, Societatis Jesu Sacerdote, Religionis 
 Jubilario. Permissu Superiorum. Curae secundas. 
 
 Gandavi, Typis Henrici Saetreuver, sub signo Albas Columbas, 1688. 
 
 23 pp. + I in i2mo. 
 
 Laurus Austriaca Augustissimo Caesari Leopoldo Primo victoriis 
 adversus Portam Ottomannicam gloriosissimo, dedicata a P. Guilielmo 
 vanden Eede, Bruxellensi, Societatis Jesu Sacerdote, Religionis Jubilario. 
 Permissu Superiorum. 
 
 Gandavi, Typis Henrici Saetreuver, sub signo Albse Columbae, 1689,. 
 5 1 pp. + frontisp. in -410. 
 
202 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 1688. Christophorus Klimeccius (Ord. Min. Ref. Polonus). 
 
 Messis 1 Liliorum | Quinaria, \ ex Horto Mariano | Salutationis 
 Angelicse, | fatae anagrammatica, | coUecta, | ac in Fasces et Acervos, 
 dein Sertum plexa, | Capiti Magnas Dei Matris | caput venenosi 
 serpentis, in sua Immaculata | Conceptione Gloriosissimo triumpho 
 conterentis, | novo devoti Messoris invento | dicata ; | et ad honorem 
 ejusdem | SS. Virginis | absque macula originali conceptae, | a | M. 
 Stanislao Josepho Biezanowski, Leopol., | in Alma Universitate Craco- 
 viensi | Philosophise Doctore, Collega Minore, Ordinario Poeseos 
 Professore, | ApoUineis. Epigrammatum Corymbis | et Panegyrico 
 applausu I coronata. 
 
 Anno a Partu Virginis Immaculatas(«V) conceptae 1688. | Superiorum 
 permissu. | Cracoviae, Typis Universitatis. | 
 
 Not paged. Sig. A — LI4 in 4to = 274 pp. 
 
 This remarkable book contains the Messis Quinaria of the title- 
 page, in which there are 5 X 3i,2.<?. 155, anagrams arranged acrostically ; 
 then follow five fasces of 34 anagrams each, of which two are reproduced 
 in our text ; then five acervi, containing in all 200 anagrams, arranged 
 acrostically on some text of the Canticles ; so that the whole volume 
 contains 525 Biblical anagrams. These were all composed by Fr. 
 Christophorus Klimeccius, a Reformed Minorite (and of whom we 
 shall hear again in a later work dated 1696), and each anagram is 
 illustrated and explained in an elegiac octostich by S. J. Biezanowski, 
 the blind professor and poet of Cracow. As far as the author of the 
 very ingenious anagrams is concerned, no one could possibly tell, from 
 the title-page or anywhere else in the book, who he was ; and it was 
 only through finding out later on his Liber Anagrammatum fro Im- 
 maculata Ortu Beat. Virg. Maria, Zamoscii, 1696, 8vo, that he was 
 discovered. 
 
 It is known to few that there is a singular triad of blind men? who 
 much distinguished themselves by literary work of an uncommon 
 character. Their names are : Joannes Baptista Agnensis, anagrammatist ; 
 Stanislaus Josephus Biezanowski, poetical elucidator of anagrams ; and 
 Joannes Rudolphus Sporck, chronogrammatist. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 i03 
 
 1696. Christophorus Klimeccius. 
 
 Liber | Anagrammatum | pro Immaculato Ortu | Beatissimas Vir- 
 ginis I Mariae | de sex verbis Salutationis Angelicas | replicatis in mm. | 
 
 (i) Chilias Liliorum | ex Horto Mariano | Salutationis Angelicae | post 
 messes, fasces et acervos | anagrammaticae coUectionis, | ad octonarium 
 redacta|ac in totidem serta complicata, |octo capitulis Cantici Canticorum 
 Salomonis | graphice accommodata, | parastichice disposita | ac | Immaculato 
 Deiparas Capiti | a P. F. Christophoro Klimeccio, Ordinis Minorum | 
 Reform. Provin. Minoris Polon., S. Th. Lect., | sacra. | Anno publicam in 
 Lucem prodeuntis Verbi sacro | Virgineo partu, mdcxcvi. | 
 
 Impress. Zamoscii, anno ut supra. 
 
 (2) Ambrosia praeambula Cantus Beato Joanni Cantio, Almae 
 Universitatis Cracoviensis Alumno, Gentis Polonas Tutelari sacra. 
 Per CL. Anagrammata ex specificato Programmate, gemina anaphora 
 disposita. Anno et authore eodem qui supra. 
 
 [All these anagrams on the Ave, Maria, contain the words Firgo 
 Immaculata, or else Mater Immaculata. This is what is meant by the 
 gemina anaphora^ 
 
 (3) Melos antelucanum . . . SS. Virgini Marias post Chiliadis 
 Liliorum elucubrationem . . . iterum ad Millenarium Anagrammatum 
 protractum et ab eodem F. Christophoro Klimeccio, etc., decantatum 
 anno mdcxcvi. 
 
 [These anagrams, numbering over a thousand, were to be poetically 
 expounded by the blind professor of poetry, Biezanowski, in the same 
 way as the Messis Liliorum of 1688 ; but the professor did not live 
 long enough even to begin the work, although Klimeccius had 
 characteristically addressed him on the subject in the following extra 
 anagrams : — 
 
 Surge Poeta, vide lumina, canta Mariam. 
 Maria Magni ait, ero cum Vate plaudens. 
 Et : Pariam Vate singula carmina, o Deum ! ] 
 
204 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATICA 
 
 (4) Decas Decadum ex selectis S. Scripturas tarn novi quam veteris 
 Testameiiti elogils in se et in figura de Beatissimo Joseph, Sponso Im- 
 maculatas Virginis SS. Marias adumbratis. Nunc primum adinventa 
 anagrammatico calculo replicato, ac . . . a P. F. Christophoro Klimeccio, 
 etc., adaptata et consecrata, anno mdcxcvi. 
 
 This collection contains about 2300 anagrams, all Biblical, and two 
 good anagrammatic engravings. It contains 159 pp. 8vo.* 
 
 169I. AURELIUS CaRRARIA. 
 
 Triumphus Augustus Infulatae Majestatis Poeticis plectris exhibitus 
 honori Jo. Marci Rossetti in Petinae Pontificem nuper inaugurati nun- 
 cupatus a J. V. D. Aurelio Carraria. Mediol., 1691, 4to. 
 
 1693 — 1696. Redelius, Augustinus Casimirus. 
 
 ANA@HMA Magno S. Augustiniani Ordinis Thaumaturgo S. 
 Nicolao Tolentinati sacrum continens xxv. Anagrammata Cronodistice 
 explanantia Compendium Mirabilis Vitas ejusdem Sancti totius Orbis 
 Christiani prodigiosi Patroni, humillima devotione oblatum. 
 
 4 ff. + frontisp. in 4to. Monachii, s. a., sed [1693]. 
 
 Anatomia | Spiritualis | nominum Sanctorum | deducta anagrammatice 
 per Singulos Dies Anni | et emblematice demonstrata. | Opus curiosum 
 non solum Poeseos Amatoribus, sed et Concionatoribus, Parochis ac 
 Religiosis suppeditans materias ad amplificandas laudes Sanctorum et 
 combinan | dos Versus pro Amicis, Patronis ceu Mascenatibus Natalizan- 
 tibus ac I casterls Congratulationibus pro cuj usque gustu. | Authore | 
 Augustino Casimiro Redelio, Cler. Belga-Mechlin., | Sacr. Caesar. Majest. 
 
 '' Augustae Vindelicorum, 1696, obi. 4to. 
 
 A — ^H^ in 4to, 64 pp. Contains about 800 short anagrams on the 
 saints. 
 
 * This remarkable volume came to me from Poland in a very greasy coat, which 
 looked as if it had been frequently in the hands of the Jews there. I went to 
 Zaehnsdorf and ordered for it a new overcoat of his best cut and finish. And now 
 my book is dressed much more expensively than its lord and master — and deserves it 
 too, for I have not seen another like it anywhere. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 205 
 
 1699. Collegium S. J. Viennj*,. 
 
 Concentus | Romanse Aquilae | et | Austriacarum | Alaudarum | 
 Felicissimum Hymenaeum celebrantlum, | ac | Coronas Nuptiales defe- 
 rentium | Augusto Romanorum et Hungarias | Regi | Josepho, | et | neo- 
 sponsae | Amalia, | exhibitus | a Viennensi Societatis Jesu Academico 
 Collegio, I • . . die et anno Nuptiis Regiis sacro. | 
 
 Viennae Austriae, s. a. 
 
 5 ff. + 79 pp. in fol. maximo. 
 
 Contains only one anagram, but it is of 819 letters — viz. John ii. 
 
 i-ii. 
 
 1701. Ambrosius Nieszporkowitz (Ord. S. Pauli Eremitas, S. Th. 
 
 Doct., concionator in monasteriis Cracoviensi et Czenstochoviensi, 
 
 historiographus ordinis. Obiit 1703). 
 
 Fragmenta Cogitationum, sive Anagrammata purissima ex Angelica 
 Salutatione "Ave, Maria, gratia plena ; Dominus tecum" per tres chiliades 
 disposita. In qua investigavit et elicuit sensum in favorem Immaculati 
 Conceptus Virginis et Matris Dei Mariae Purissimas ac pedibus poeticis 
 in publicum ire fecit, Superiorum permissu, Fr. Ambrosius Nieszpor- 
 kowitz, Ord. S. Pauli P. E. Profess. Anno Sancto Jubilei Magni mdcci. 
 
 Cracoviae, Ex officina Francisci Cezary, S. R. M. Illustris. ac 
 Reverendiss. Domini Episcopi Cracov. Ducis Severias ; necnon Scho- 
 larum Novoduorscianarum Typographi Ordinarii. 
 
 52 ff. non num. Sig. A — Ccj = 107 pp. in fol. 
 
 This book, the greatest tour de force of all the works mentioned in 
 this Bibliography, is in my possession, and (as I learn from M. Estreicher, 
 the famous Polish Bibliographer) is the only one known to him, and 
 therefore probably unique. It contains 3000 metrical anagrams, hexa- 
 meters and pentameters, on the Angelical Salutation, Luke i. 28, all 
 asserting the Immaculate Conception, either directly or indirectly, and 
 bringing in, often very skilfully, the various titles and attributes given to 
 the Virgin by ecclesiastical writers. 
 
 In 1699 the author had published the following specimen of his 
 projected magnum opus, giving 300 anagrams only, viz. : 
 
2o6 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Fragmenta Cogitationum, seu Anagrammata ex Angelica Saluta- 
 tione ... in metro accommodata numero 300, cum supplemento at 
 Salve trium chiliadum prodrome per Fr. Ambr. Nieszporkowitz, Ord. S. 
 Pauli primi Eremitae professum. 
 
 Anno Domini 1699. Cracovias, Typis Universitatis. 
 10 ff. non num. Sig. A — B2. 
 
 A copy of this, M. Estreicher tells me, is in the Ossolinsky Institute 
 at Lemberg. 
 
 In 1 691 Nieszporkowitz published : — 
 
 Officina emblematum quae praecipuos Virginis et Matris Dei 
 
 Marias Titulos et Elogia complectuntur per Fr. Ambr. Nieszporkowitz 
 
 . . . proposita et exposita. Centuria i. „ . 
 
 ^ ^ Lracoviae, mdcxci. 
 
 8 fF. and 504 pp. in fol. 
 
 Each emblem has an anagram of the Ave, Maria, to introduce it, 
 one hundred in all — but they all belong to J. B. Agnensis ; from which 
 I think we may infer that Nieszporkowitz had not in 1691 thought of 
 trying his own hand at the work. 
 
 1701. Lucas de Vriese, 1640 — 1723 (Ccenobii Dunensis Abbas). 
 
 (i) Hortulus I acrostice anagrammaticus | Marianus | ter mille 
 diversicolorum Elogiorum | Flosculis | ex uberrimis | Angelicae Saluta- 
 tionis Elementis | Mundae, Puras, Immaculatae, | gloriosas semper 
 Virginis | Marias | aromatisans Suavitatis Odorem. | 
 
 BrVgIs eXhIbVIt Fr. JVLIVs De Cesar | XIII. Mall. | 
 
 Brugis, Typis heredum Ign. van Pee (1700). 
 
 3 if. prel. and pp. 201 in 8vo. 
 
 This is the rare first edition of the numerous anagrams of the Ave, 
 Maria, composed by Lucas de Vriese, insignis Ccenobii Dunensis Abbas. 
 It was published by Petrus Smidts, Medicus, who signed the preface, in 
 which it appears that the anagrams were seen and admired by the doctor, 
 and published by him unknown to their author, the abbot. From the 
 erasions and alterations in my copy, I should think only a few copies 
 were privately distributed. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 207 
 
 Later on, in 171 1, the book was thoroughly re-arranged and again 
 issued with slightly altered preface, and title-pages as follows : — 
 
 (2) Metamorphosis | Angelica | Mariana | in | ter mille figuras | 
 transformata. | 
 
 BrVgIs, eDIDIt F. JVLeVs De Cesar, | XXVI JVnII, tYpIs 
 Van Pee. 
 
 pp. vi — 100 in sm. 8vo. Brugis [17 11]. 
 
 (3) Metamorphosis | Angelica | Mariana | in | ter mille figuras | 
 transformata | qVaM BrVgIs eXhIbVIt | JVLeVs De Cesar XI 
 AVgVstl. I 
 
 pp. vi — 100 and i p. errata. 
 
 The first edition is a nobler and better printed work than the other 
 two, and differs very much as to its arrangement ; but all contain the 
 same number of anagrams, viz. 3100, i.e. 100 acrostics of 31 anagrams 
 each. I give two as examples under Luc. i. 28. 
 
 This laborious anagrammatist left behind him a MS. of 430 pp., 
 entitled : 
 
 Litaniae Lauretanas SS. Nominis Jesu et divi Bernardi. 
 
 This is preserved in the Library of the Seminary at Bruges, where 
 I was kindly permitted to examine it. There are in it many long 
 anagrams of different prayers of the Church and other literary ingenuities ; 
 but the only strictly Biblical anagrams are the two on the Lord's Prayer, 
 to be found in their place under Matt. vi. 9-13. The MS. ends thus : 
 
 LVCas De Vrlese In bono CorDe hanC obtVLIt ConseCraVItqVe 
 
 qVarta AprlLIs. 
 [A chronogram of 1686.] 
 
 1703. Selhamer, Christophorus, S. T. D. 
 
 Tuba I Anagrammata, | sive | Conciones in Dominicas | per annum | 
 
 ubi totius Sermonis usuale Thema congruo | semper Anagrammate 
 
 illustratur, quod vel abesse | vel adesse protest sine subjecti Thematis 
 
 corruptione. | Opus recens | ex Sacra Scriptura, ex SS. Patrum Ora- 
 
2o8 BIBLIA ANAGRAM MATIC A 
 
 culis, D. D. I Classicis, Scripturariis, Sacris et profanis aiithoribus . . . 
 rite conflatum, probas notae Ana | grammatis magno numero excultum, 
 moribus reformandis | accommodum. | Opera et studio | Melchioris 
 (anagr. lit. 20) Pharosther, | seu rectius, | Christophori Selhamer, | 
 SS. Theologiae Doctoris, etc. | ^^g_ Vindel, 1703. 
 
 Sig. A— F f f f and A— H h h,. 
 
 5 ff. + pp. 120 (pref.) + pp. 540 + 15 if. index + pp. 412 + 10 ff. 
 index. 
 
 1 7 10. Wegrzinovius, Fr. Ant. 
 
 Alphabetum | Immaculatas Conceptionis | SS. Virginis | Mariae | 
 per titulos a literis alphabeti initiales | in quibus | praemissa congrua 
 moralitate, | Scripturaliter, Figuraliter, Doctoraliter, Miraculose, | 
 Scholastice ; idque Theologice, Philosophice, | Symbolice, Poetice, Ana- 
 grammatice, | atque Historice, | SS. Deiparse | Conceptio sine labe | 
 elucidatur. | Auctore | F. Antonio Wegrzinovio Polono, Ord. FF. Min. 
 Reformatt., | S. The. Lectore, Provinc. iVIinoris Poloniae Patre. | 
 
 Anno Domini mdccx. Cracoviae, Typis Academicis. 
 
 10 ff. prel., 446 pp. and 36 pp. index. 
 
 1711. Anon. 
 
 Usque in sasCVLVM non DeLeblTVr (Ecclus. xxxix. 12) memoria 
 XIV. Venerabilium Servorum Dei ex sacro Ordine Minorum S. P. 
 Francisci Seraphici Strictioris Observantias nuncupatorum qui Neo-Prag£ 
 ad S. Mariam ad Nives, anno 161 1, die 15. Febr. ab Haereticis crudeliter 
 necati et elapso a passione eorum Saeculo primo, hac brevi Historia et 
 metro a Conventu praefato S. Mariae ad Nives honorati sunt. Annus 
 Scripturistico-chronographicus : et seMen ILLIVs In beneDICtlone erlt 
 (Psal. xxxvi. 26). 
 
 s. a. (171 1 ), Neo-Pragse, Typis Hampelianis. 
 
 A — Ci in 4to. 
 
 1716. Anon. 
 Prseparatio | et Gratiarum actio | Missae | Sacrificii | piis afFectibus, I 
 et I anagrammaticis | versionibus, potius mente medi | tanda quam ore 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 209 
 
 proferenda, atque | devotis S. Scripturae locis, necnon | Sanctorum 
 Patrum sententiis in | terdum insertis Locupletata. | Studio ac Lahore | 
 Presbiteri Religiosi Ordinis FF. Min. | strictioris observantias Recoil. 
 Sancti I Francisci, Provinciae S. Andreae | Alumni. | 
 
 Montibus, Apud iEgidium | Albertum Havart, Regium | et Statuum 
 Hannoniae Typo | graphum, sub signo Paradisi. | 
 
 pp. 94 in i2mo. 
 
 17 1 6. MS. {Penes me). 
 
 Mysterium Magnum in auspicatissimi Natalis 
 
 Serenissimi Austrise Archiducis 
 
 Asturiaeque Principis 
 
 Leopoldi revelatum. 
 
 Oratio Pythagorica. 
 
 This was a paper contributed by one of the members of an Italian 
 academy or literary society, and read out at the customary meeting. 
 
 1722. Anon. 
 
 Caelum novum in monte (Apoc. xxi. 10), | sive | DoMVs 
 GenltrlCI SerVatorls JesV ChrlstI | super monte Olivetano ab M° 
 Dom. Dom. Francisco Wenceslao, S. R. I. Comite de TrauttmansdorfF, 
 etc., I exasdificata | - . . sVb ChartaCeo hoCCe sCheMate eXhIblta 
 atqVe ConseCrata | a reLIgloso pleqVe stVDIoso CVLtore honoris 
 MarlanI | eX pla paVp. gratlosae Matrls Del sChoLar. plar. 
 reLIglone. | 
 
 Vetero-Pragae (J. W. Helm), fol., s. a. (1722). 
 
 pp. 40 in fol. Seen at Prague Univ. Libr. 
 
 1727. DoNiNO FiDALMi, i.e. Flaminio Dondi. 
 
 Conceptionale | Biblicum | Anagrammaticum, | sive | excerpta ex 
 omnigeno Sacro Textu | Purissima | Anagrammata | pro | purissima et 
 Immaculata | Conceptione | B""^ V. Mariae | Auctore | Donino Fidalmi. | 
 
 Urbini, mdccxxvii, | Typis Ven.-Capellas SS. Sacramenti, | Apud 
 Antonlum Fantauzzi. | Prassidum permissu. | 
 
 pp. 198 in 8vo. 
 
 14 
 
2IO BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 1731. Juan Antonio de Mora, S.J. 
 
 Anagrammas | en aplauso y gloria | de la Concepcion Purissima 
 de I Maria | Sefiora Nuestra, | concebida sin la culpa original. | 
 Sacados | de estas palabras de la Salutacio Angelica : | " Ave, Maria, 
 gratia plena ; Dominus tecum." | Explicados | por el P. Juan Antonio 
 de Mora, | Professo, de la Compania de Jesus. | Dedicados | a la misma 
 Virgen Nra. Senora | y a la Gracia, y Purezza de este | Primer 
 Instante. | 
 
 En Mexico, ano de 1731. 
 
 15 fF. prel. and pp. 272 in 8vo. 
 
 This remarkable book contains 2624 pure anagrams on the 
 Angelical Salutation of Luke i. 28 : 946 are the author's own, 325 
 he gives at the end from Turrius, and the rest are mainly from J. B. 
 Agnensis ; 552 of the anagrams have each an eight-lined Spanish poem 
 by Mora to elucidate the meaning. He confesses that he was never able 
 to procure the original works of either Turrius or Agnensis, but took 
 their anagrams as quoted by other authors. 
 
 1732. Anon. (Sacerd. Clisin.). 
 
 In laudem Immaculatae Virginis sine labe conceptae anagrammata 
 1084 literaria ex Angelica Salutatione programmate : "Ave, Maria, gratia 
 plena ; Dominus tecum," purissimi deducta, et per Litaniarum syllabas 
 dispositi, ex quorum singulo Angelica Salutatio elicitur. Concinnata 
 et eidem SS. Matri dicata ab infimo ejusdem cliente Sacerdote Clisino. 
 
 Salisburgi, 1732, i2mo. 
 
 Labbe, Philippus. Anagrammata 444 immaculata in honorem 
 Immac. B. V. M. Conceptionem ex verbis Salutationis Angelicae : " Ave, 
 Maria," etc., iterum excusa. Parisiis, 1663. 
 
 Roskovany, iii. 496, gives this, but it does not seem to be in Backer, 
 although Labbe was a Jesuit. 
 
 I74I. BONAVENTURA DA SaNTA RoSALIA. 
 
 Notizie della vita e virtu de Padre Bonaventura da Santa Rosalia, 
 Agostiniano scalzo della provincia di Milano. Raccolte da un Religioso 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 211 
 
 della medesima Provincia, e dedicate all' Immaculata gran Madre di Dio 
 Maria Vergine. Aggiuntovi in fine im saggio di anagrammi sillabici 
 dello stesso Padre Bonaventura. 
 
 Milano, 1741, 4to. 
 
 5 ff. prel., pp. 217, with 41 add. pp. of anagrams. 
 
 [In Brera, s. v. Renoglio. In Ambrosian Libr. two copies.] 
 
 In the Ambrosian Library at Milan there is also a duodecimo 
 manuscript in autograph of Padre Bonaventura. It contains prayers 
 and meditations, especially on solitude, and is written in a plain and 
 legible hand. There are no anagrams in it. 
 
 L. J. Caris (Sacerdos Mosacensis, 1854). 
 
 Several good anagrams in the present work are from the MSS. left 
 by the Belgian priest Caris, who was one of the latest and best of the 
 anagrammatists and chronogram-makers of recent times. He published 
 no work containing anagrams, as far as I know, though he left a MS. 
 containing some. He published, however, several pamphlets entirely 
 chronogrammatic, and he left among his papers many more chronograms, 
 dating between 1826 and 1854. 
 
 1869. Antonius Kovacic (Presbyter Dioc. Diakovariensis, Hungarus). 
 
 Jubar Ecclesias Catholicae In triumpho Sanctorum enitente xx. 
 Concilii CFxumenici Romana solemnitate, occasione Jubilaei Sacerdotalis 
 S. P. Pii Papae IX. die ri. Apr. 1869, Carmine heroico, elegiaco et lyrico 
 celebratum. 
 
 Essekini, 1869, 8vo. 
 
 This Hungarian secular priest and facile Latin poet also wrote 
 in 1877 : 
 
 Eminentia Episcopatus et Sacerdotii occasione Jubilasi Episcopalis 
 suae Sanctitatis ... Pii Papas IX. 
 
 Vukovarini, 1877, 8vo. 
 pp. 310 and 282, 2 vols. 
 
 No anagrams, but some curious rhyming Latin verse, and caballi- 
 chronostica. 
 
212 BIBLIA ANAGRAMMATICA 
 
 Three Items not seen : — 
 
 (i) Tapia, Antoninus de. 
 
 Trenta y una Letras qua continen Maria concebida sin pecado 
 .original, tornado por guia y principio de las letras contenidas. 
 
 Sevilla, 1618. 
 (Roskovany.) 
 
 (2) Leonardis, Leonardus de. 
 
 Sacri Collegii Apostolici, Catholicorum Principum ac civitatum vota 
 -pro obtinenda a S. Sede definitione de fide Immaculatae Conceptionis 
 B. V. M. ex Angelicae Salutationis verbis per anagrammata deducta 
 • et ad immortalitatis aram appensa. 
 
 1666. 
 
 (Roskovany, 6516.) 
 
 (3) Omodei, Ludovicus. 
 JHecatombe anagrammatica Immac. Concept. B. V. M. dedicata. 
 
 Lycii, 1682. 
 
 But (i) and (3) may not be Biblical in the sense I have used the 
 term, i.e. as containing anagrams of texts or Bible personages. 
 
 Printed and bound by Hazelly Watson & Viney, Ld,, London and Aylesbury. 
 
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