Notitia, the name given to the record or chart of the great divisions or provinces, etc., of the empire and the Church.
Notker. There are several persons of this name mentioned in Church histories. The most important among them are :
1. St. NoTKiiR, surnamcd Bulbidus, or '• the stam- merer," a learned German monk, who was born about 830 at Elgau, in Northern Switzerland. At an early age he entered the convent of St. Gall (q. v.). His tal- ents attracted the attention of the emperor Charles the Large, who repeatedly offered to make him bishop, but Notker always declined. He died April 16, 912. He wrote. Liber de inier'pretihus dinnarum Scripiiaxtrum (Hamburg, 1736, 8vo ; and in Pez, Thesaurus anecdoto- rum) : — Liber sequentiarum, in the same collection: — Notitia de illustribus virvs, ibid.: — Alartyrologium (in Canisius, A ntiquoe Leciiones) : — S. Fridolini historia (in GolAast, Scriptores Alemannici) : — Hymns (in Canisius, Lectiones): — and a treatise on the value of letters in music (in Gerbert, Sc7i2}(ores'). The Gesta Cai-oli Magni has been erroneously attributed to Notker.
2. Notker, surnamed Labeo, or Teutonicus, a learned German monk, was born about the middle of the 10th century. He was a nephew of Ekkehard I, who wrote a Latin paraphrase of Waltharius's German poem. He entered at an early age into the convent of St. Gall (q. v.), where he made rapid progress, obtaining even a good mastery of the Greek language, which was a rare accomplishment at that time. He became the head of the school. We have still a Latin poem by one of his pupils, with notes and corrections in Notker's hand- writing (see Pertz, Momimenta, vol. ii). In his teach- ing Notker often made use of the German language, and vainly sought to establish the custom of so doing (see his letter to the bishoji of Sion in Grimm's GOflin- f/er Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1835). Notker also translated into German several portions of the Bible, and some of the classics. It has been erroneously asserted by some that he merely supervised these translations, and that they were made by his pupils. He died June 29, 1022. Among his translations we find some of the Psalms in Hattemer (ZJe/iivnaYf?-) and in Graff (Windherger Psal- men [Quedlinburg, 1839]) ; De Consolatione of Boethius, pul)lished by Graff (Berlin, 1837); De wiptiis Mercuriiet Philologim ofMartianus Capella (ibid. 1847); the Cate- gories and Hernieneutics of Aristotle (ibid. 1837). He also wrote a treatise on rhetoric in Latin, published in Haupt {Zeitschrift, vol. iv). Among his translations whicli have been lost we notice that of the Book of Job; the Bucolics of Virgil ; the Andrian of Terence; the Disticha of Cato, etc. This Notker is by some con- sidered as the author of the little treatise on music men- tioned under the preceding; as also of one on logic in Haupt (.1 Itdeutsche Blatter, vol. ii). See Ekkehard, Ca- sus S. Galli; Acta Sanct. Feb. and April ; Oudin. Sc}-ip- tores ecclesiastici, s. v. ; Gallia Christiana, s. v. (J. N. P.)
Notmail, John, a noted architect, deserves a place here for his distinguished labors on ecclesiastic struct- ures. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 22,
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1810. In 1831 he came to the United States, and set- tled at Philadelphia, where he died, March 3, 1805. In ecclesiastical architecture he stands among the hest rep- resentatives of modern times. In the United States he ranked tirst in this department. Says a contemporary : "Notman possessed great enthusiasm for his art, as well as poetic sensibility ; and in his works he seemed to address himself not as much to the senses as to the soul." One of his chief works is St. Mark's Church, in Philadelphia. It is one of the very hest specimens of Gothic architecture in the United States. Indeed, Mr. Notman may well be spoken of as the American student of medieval architecture. Other noted specimens of his work are the facade of the Roman Catholic Cathe- dral on Logan Square, Philadelphia, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, of which the doorway is especially admired. Laurel Hill Cemetery of Philadelphia — one of the handsomest burial-grounds of the United States — owes its beauty to the good taste of Mr. Notinan.
Notre Dame (i. e. Our Lad//) is the old French appellation of the Virgin Mary, and therefore the name of a number of churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary in different parts of France, and particularly of the great cathedral of Paris. See also the following article.
Notre Dame, Congregation of, is the name of a Koman Catholic female order, whose members are frequently called " Sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady." The origin of the sisterhood is doubtful. Some ascribe its foundation to Fourier, others to Aix le Clerc, the tirst devotee of this Congregation. She flourish- ed in the second half of the 16th century in a little vil- lage in Lorraine, that part of France recently annexed to Germany. The establishments of the Congregation were first opened in the beginning of the 17th centurj'. In 1G14 a convention was held of the different members, and a confirmation of the order askotl for from the papal see, and the request was granted by a special bull from pope Paul V, February', 1615; further enlarged in