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At the end of the Gospel according to St. Matthew : 



" Op oo niaelbpijre qui pcpibpir hunc libpum. Ip mop in 5mm Copmac TTluc Capchuig 

 DO mupbao o Gaipoelbach h-ua 6piam." Fol. 60. 



" Pray for Maelbrighte qui scripsit hunc librum. Great the deed, Cormac Mac Carthaig to be 

 killed by Tairdelbhach O'Brien." 



At the end of the Gospel according to St. Luke : 



" Op DO rriaelbpij-ce qui pcpibpic hunc libpum ncuin unno aecacip puae. In oapu blia- 

 oam lapp in jjoeehaijj moip pin." 



" Pray for Maelbrighte qui scripsit hunc librum, xxviii. anno cetatis suce. This was the second 

 year after the great storm." Fol. 127, b. 



At the end of the Gospel according to St. John : 



" Op" DO TTlaelbpijce h-U>i ITIaeluanaij, qui pcpibpir hunc libpum, .1. in n-Qpo macha, 

 ocup ip in ampip t)onnchacha h-Uu Cepbcnllapopij Qip5iallpopcpibao,.i.in bliaoam oan pe- 

 pioe oeac popKal. Gnaip, .1. ip in bliaoampo mapbao Copmac ITlac Capoaijj, pigepcop TTluman 

 7 h-Gpenn ap chenu in n-a ampip. Greac po h-aucem pijpa h-Gpenn ip in n-amptp pein, .1. 

 muipcepcac, mac NeillUi f-oclamo, Qiliuch ; Cu Ulao, mac Conchobuip, pijUlao; FHupcath 

 Ua niuel^echlamo, pij TTIioe ; Diapmaic TTIac IDupchaoa, pigtajjen; Conchobop Ua 6piain, 

 pij IDuman; Caipoelbach Ua Conchobaip, pi Connaclic ; )illa Hlac iac, mac mic 

 Ruaiopi (.1. mac mo ip oana DO Ib 6ipim), h-i comapbap pacpaic. 6ennach ap cech oen 

 lejjpap ppip in libup pa ; jebeo puicip ap anmam in pcpibaeoa, uaip ip mop hacecep ecip 

 copp 7 cpaccao ic." Fol. 156, b. 



" Pray for Maelbrighte h-Ua Maeluanaig, qui scripsit hunc librum, i. e. at Armagh, and in the time 

 of Donnchat O'Cerbhaill, chief king of Airgiall, it was written, i. e. the year on which the sixteenth 

 was on the Calends of January, i. e. the year in which Cormac Mac Carthaig, royal bishop of Muns- 

 ter and of all Ireland also in his time, hath been killed. These are the kings of Erin at this time, 

 i. e. Muirchertach, son of Niall O'Lochlainn, of Ailiuch ; Cu Ulad, son of Conchobhar, king of 

 Ulad ; Murcath Ua Maelshechlainn, king of Meath; Diarmait Mac Murchada, king of Leinster ; 

 Conchobhor Ua Briain, king of Munster ; Tairdelbhach Ua Conchohhair, king of Connaught; 

 Gilla Mac Liac, the grandson of Euaidhri (i. e. the son of the poet of the Hy-Briuin), in the suc- 

 cessorship of Patrick. A blessing on every one who shall let this book pass \jeithout censure], 

 let him repeat a pater for the soul of the scribe, for it stands much in need of indulgence both 

 in its text and commentaries." 



This interesting passage has been already published by Dr. O'Brien in his 

 Irish Dictionary, under the word CURMAC or CORMAC, and also by Dr. O'Conor 

 in his Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, Prolegomena, p. cxliii, who also gives 

 a fac simile of the original ; and both these writers show, from collateral au- 

 thorities, that the entry was written in the year 1138. That Cormac was 



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