Mr. Petrie on the Domnach-Airgid. 23 



sata virgo Maria. Maria autem genuit Jesum qui dicitur Christus." The Domnach manuscript 

 appears to be singular in omitting the whole clause, 



Ver. 1 7. Omnes ergo, — The modern vulgate reads itaque, the ancient version ergo, as in this 

 manuscript. In the rest of the verse this manuscript agrees with the modern, and differs from the 

 ancient version, which reads " generationes sunt xiv." in the three places. 



The back of this leaf is altogether illegible. 



The contractions used in this fragment are ih for Jesus (ver. 1) ; If for autem (passim); je 

 for genuit (ver. 16) ; (;) in upq; for usque ; and a line over e for em {ver. 17). The only stop 

 visible is that already noticed in ver. 3. 



To the preceding addenda, it will not, I trust, be considered irrelevant to add 

 a notice of an ancient seal of an abbot of the church in which the Domnach was 

 preserved, and which has the appropriate device, — a figure of the patron saint 

 holding a crosier with one hand, and a book, having a cumdach, or ornamented 

 case, with the other. It is indeed not improbable that this seal was made for the 

 very abbot, John O'Carbrie, by whom the outer cover was put on the Domnach; 

 but on this point no conclusion is rested, as, unfortunately, the surname of the 

 abbot is the only portion of the inscription difficult to be deciphered. It may, 

 however, be remarked, that no other Abbot of Clones, having the Christian 

 name of John, is found in the Irish annals, and that the style of the device and 

 character of the letters on the seal belong to the fourteenth century, the period 

 in which that abbot flourished. 



The inscription is as follows : 



SPKISIOHISVCCO-IRVABISDOMUSAPLORPPDECLVAIEOVS. 



