"
The printers, it would appear, not only introduced their own names into
these verses, but also the names of the correctors of the press, as may
be seen in the work entitled, _Commentariis Andreae de Ysernia super
constitutionibus Siciliae_, printed by Sixtus Riffingerus at Naples in
1472:--
"Sixtus hoc impressit: sed bis tamen ante revisit
Egregius doctor Petrus Oliverius.
At tu quisque emis, lector studiose, libellum
Laetus emas; mendis nam caret istud opus."
G.J.K.
Charles Martel
Mr. Editor,--Perhaps the subjoined note, extracted from M. Collin de
Plancy's _Bibliotheque des Legendes_, may not be without its value, as
tending to correct an error into which, according to his account, modern
historians have fallen respecting the origin of the surname "Martel,"
borne by the celebrated Charles Martel, son of Peppin of Herstal, Duke
of Austrasia, by his Duchess Alpheide[2]:--
"It is surprising," he says, "that almost all our modern
historians, whose profound researches have been so highly
vaunted, have repeated the little tale of the _Chronicle of St.
Denis_, which affirms that the surname of Martel was conferred
on Charles for having hammered (_martele_) the Saracens. Certain
writers of the present day style him, in this sense,
_Karle-le-Marteau_. The word martel, in the ancient Frank
language, never bore such a signification, but was, on the
contrary, merely an abbreviation of Martellus, Martin.
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